In 1975, when the civil war in Lebanon started, he was a guitarist of a progressive rock band Rainbow Bridge in Beirut.
In 1976, Hajali, who was politically ultra-left, fled Lebanon with his wife, first to Cyprus, and then to Paris, where he stayed in 1977, before going back to Beirut.
[1][4] One of the compositions, Ana Damir El Motakallim, has been compared with Stairway to Heaven and described as innovative in Lebanese music.
[3] Back in Beirut in 1977, Hajali founded the band Ferkat Al Ard, which eventually recorded three albums.
As of 2019, he was running a jewelry shop in Beirut, was not performing, and his income was coming from selling his past compositions.