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Nizar Qabbani: Al-Quds Posted by on Jul 31, 2014

   Ahlan, Arabic fans! Today, I am going to present a poem by the great Arab poet نــِــزار قــَــبــَّـــانــِــى Nizar Qabbani. The poem is entitled الــقــُــدْسُ /Al-Quds/ (Jerusalem). In the poem, the poet longs for peace الــســَّــلام and for the land to come back to its owners. He longs for the time when blood الــدَّم and aggression الــعــُــدْوَان will stop. He never loses hope الأمــَــل in spite…

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فـــــــــي القُـــــــــــــدس (In Jerusalem) Posted by on May 15, 2012

Today, May 15th, is to be remembered as يــــــوم النكبــــــــــــــة (“The Day of the Catastrophe”), a day commemorated by virtually everyone in the Arab world—in addition to an important number of Orthodox Jews who not only vigorously uphold the Palestinian cause, but who also, in the name of the Jewish faith which they dearly cherish and identify with, are uncompromisingly opposed to the apartheid ideology…

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Rose of All Cities زهرة المدائن Posted by on Aug 31, 2011

     Today, I am going to share a great song by the great singer; Fayrouz. The song is written by the great Lebanese poet Saeed Aql سعيد عقل and composed by the great Lebanese Rahbani brothers. The song is a dedication to the Arabism عُروبة of the great holy city of Jerusalem القُدس /Al-Quds/ which…

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