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Lebanese Campaign: زرّيعة قلبي Zarreeʕit Alb-i (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jun 5, 2020
Last week, we started studying the lyrics of the theme song زرّيعة قلبي , plants of my heart – that is a part of a national initiative مبادرة وطنية in Lebanon to encourage people to grow their own vegetables. After studying at the first part of the song, we continue looking at the rest today…
Lebanese Campaign: زرّيعة قلبي Zarreeʕit Alb-i (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jun 1, 2020
In this post, I’m going to share with you a funny and beautiful theme song about plants النباتات and home agriculture الزراعة المنزلية. The song is an advert for a campaign حملة that was launched أُطلِقت about two weeks ago, by the Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki نادين لبكي @NadineLabaki. The lyrics are in…
Eid Under lockdown العيد خلال الحظر Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 26, 2020
Today’s post is a quick report of what has been going on in social media during Eid and how Arabs expressed their feelings عبّروا عن مشاعرهم and reactions ردّات فعلهم towards spending Eid under very different circumstances تجاه قضاء العيد في ظروف مختلفة than most years! The post includes some of the hashtags وسوم that…
“Welcome Eid أهلًا بالعيد” – A Song Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 22, 2020
It’s the festive season again.. It’s just been announced that tomorrow is the last day of Ramadan and so Eid is on Sunday, the 24th. May. Kul ʕaam wa antum bi-khair كل عام وأنتم بخير 🙂 If you’d ask any Arab about a song they often associate with Eid, the song “Ahlan Ahlan Bil-Eid”, by…
Oman عُمان: through my eyes (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 15, 2020
Welcome back to this post about Oman. In this second part of the post, I continue to tell you about my experience in Oman عُمَان and its capital – Muscat مَسْقَطْ to be specific. It’s Oman and not Amman عَمَّان by the way 😀 The latter is the capital of the Arabic country Jordan, but…
Ramadan Campaign: سنة الحياة Sunnet El-Hayaa Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 8, 2020
Our post this week is dedicated to an advert song أغنية لإعلان that Orange (a mobile’s company, Egypt branch) launched أطلقته as part of its Ramadan campaign حملة رمضان this year. The theme of the song موضوع الأغنية is timely مناسب (لهذا الوقت) as it sends a positive message رسالة إيجابية to people by giving…
Oman عُمان: through my eyes (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 4, 2020
As an Arab, Oman عُمَان was not a country that I knew or heard much about as is the case with the rest of the Gulf countries. It wasn’t until 2013 when I had the chance to go there when I was invited by a family member who used to live there temporarily. In this…