Shakira paid a visit to her grandmother's village in Lebanon

Colombian pop star Shakira on Friday visited the village in Lebanon where her paternal grandmother was born, a journalist said. “Hello Tannourine, thank you, I am happy to be here!” the 41-year-old singer said in Arabic during a visit under high security to the village of Tannourine in Lebanon’s mountainous north. Accompanied by local officials, Shakira visited a nature reserve that grows cedar trees — Lebanon’s national emblem — and planted two saplings.