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Sinai Liberation Day Posted by on Apr 26, 2013 in Arabic Language, Culture, Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary

     Yesterday, Egypt celebrated the 31st. Sinai Liberation Day عـــيــد تــحــــريـــر ســـيــنــــاءcommemorating the withdrawal إنـــســـحـــــاب of the Israeli troops from Taba طــابـــا ; the last occupied part of the Sinai Peninsula  شـــبـه جــزيـــرة ســـيــنــــاء. The day is a national holiday أجـــازة قـــومـــيــة in Egypt and is celebrated by all people and the government الـــحـــكــومـــة in different ways. People of all ages enjoyed themselves and their families in the parks or took a walk by the  Nile banks. In Sinai itself the Ministry of Higher Education وزارة الــتـــعــلــيـــم الــعـــالــى in cooperation with the North Sinai government held many celebratory activities in Al-Arish  الــعـــريــــش; capital of the governorate.

      On this occasion, I am going to present a short beautiful poem to one of the Egypt’s contemporary مــُــعـــاصــِـــر poets; Yusuf Khaleef يـُـــوسـُــف خــلـــيــــف . Khaleef worked as a professor of the Arabic Language literature الأدب الـعـــربــى for a long time both in Egypt and other Arab countries. The poem is dedicated to Sinai and reflects its status مــكـــانـــة in every Egyptian person’s heart.

ســَــــيــنـــَــاءُ ..أرضُ الــفـــَــــيــْـــروز

Sinai; Land of Turquoise

 سَــــــيـنـــاءُ عــــَــــــروسٌ بــَــــدويــّــــــــة          سـَــــيــنــــاءُ خـــُـــيـــُـــــولٌ عــَـــربـــيــّــــة

Sinai is a  Bedouin pride … Sinai;  Arabian horses   

ســَــــيــنــاءُ حـــَـــمــَّــــامـَـــاتٌ بــــيــــــضٌ          و ســَــنـــَـــابــلُ قــَــمــْـــــحٍ ذهـــــبــيـــــّــــة

Sinai; white bathrooms … And golden wheat spikes

و جــَـــداوِلُ مـِــن عـِـــطـــــــرٍ رَقـــــــــراقٍ           فَـــــَــــــــوقَ ضــــِـــفــــَـــــافٍ ورديــــّــــــة

And streams of running perfume … Above rosy banks

سـَــيــنــَــاءُ مــَـــنـــَــاجــِـــمُ فــَـــــيـــــــرُوز          و كـــُــــنـــُــــوزُ عـــَـــقـــيـــقٍ سِــحــريــّـــة

Sinai: turquoise mines … And magical garnet treasures

سـَـــيــنــاءُ تــَــمــيـمـَـــة وادِى الـــنــيــــــلِ           تــَـــعـــُــــودُ إِلــى صـــَـــــدرِ الـــــــــــــوَادِى

Sinai: the amulet of the Nile Valley … Returns to the Valley’s arms

سـَــيــنــاءُ تــَــعــُــودُ وَ سـَــاقـِــى الـــنــُّــورِ          يــَـــصــُـــــبُّ كـــُـــــــؤوسَ الأضـــْـــــــــواءِ

Sinai returns and the light bartender … Pours glasses of light

و حــَـــمــَـــامٌ أبــيــــضُ  مــِــثــلَ الــنـــُّـــورِ          يــُـــرَفــْـــرِفُ بــَـــيـــْــــنَ الأَحـــْــــيـــَــــــاءِ

And white pigeons, light-like … Flies amongst the alive

و غــُــصـُـــونٌ مـِـنْ شـَــجـَـــرِ الـزَّيـْــتــُــونِ          تـــُــغـــطــــِّـــى وَجـــْــــهَ الــصـَّـــحــَــــــراءِ

And branches of olive trees … Covers the face of the desert

و طــُـــيــُـــورٌ خــُـــضـــْـــرٌ فَــوقَ الأُفـــُـــقِ          تـــُـــحــْـــيـــِـــى ذِكــْــــرَى الـشــُّــهــَــــــداءِ

And green birds in on the horizon … Commemorate the martyrs

و غـِـــنــَــاءٌ فــَـــوقَ شـِــــفــَـــاهِ الــحــُــــورِ          يــُـــحــَـــيــِّـــى أَغـــْـــلــــَــى الأَســْــمــَـــاءِ

And songs on the lips of angels … greeting the dearest of all names.

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Well, I was born near the city of Rasheed or Rosetta, Egypt. Yes, the city where the Rosetta Stone was discovered. It is a small city on the north of Egypt where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. I am a Teacher of EFL.