The Arab Conscience operetta

You can use everything in the following post where ever you want.

On 27th of February 2008, I watched "Al Dhameer Al Arabi" (The Arab Conscience) operetta premiere on Zoom TV, which is considered part two of "Al Hilm Al Arabi" (The Arab Dream) operetta which was produced in 1998.

It's extends for more than 40 minutes, I according to the director, it's might get into the Guinness book for longest non stop song in the world.

It features more than 100 Arab artist, singers, actors, hosts...Etc, and talks about war using real archival videos of events took place in the whole world between 1998 to 2008.

The song is very touching I translated it to English but some parts made non sense because as I always says translating an Arab poem will make it loses the power of it.

Here is a list of some topics been brought up in the operetta:

9/11 attacks, Danish cartoons, Israeli massacres in Lebanon and Palestine, Desert fox, Sharon entrance to Al-Haram Al-Qudsi and the second Intifadha, Assassination of Muhammad Al-Durrah, War on Iraq, Kenya and Tanzania bombings, Bombing of southern Lebanon, War on terror, Resistance, World Peace, Terrorism, Arabism, Freedom of religion, Freedom of expression, Turning ethinic groups against each others, Civil wars, the Arab Dream Operetta, Separation wall in the Palestinian territores, Golan heights, Abu Ghraib prison, Human rights, Democracy, Al-Haram Al-Qudsi...Others

The operetta begins with two legends Wadee'a Al Safi (وديع الصافي) and Mohammad Al Ezabi (محمد العزبي) performing "Mawwal" (An Arab music genre), the actual operetta begins at 6:13 minutes.

It features Arab singers from many Arab countries such as Latifa (لطيفة), Hani Shaker (هاني شاكر), Nancy Ajram (نانسي عجرم), Khaled (خالد), Sherine (شيرين), Saber Al Rebai (صابر الرباعي), Redha Al Abdullah (رضا العبدالله), Amal Maher (آمال ماهر), Khaled Selim (خالد سليم), Ahlam (أحلام), Diana Karazon (ديانا كرزون), Abdullah Al Rowaished (عبدالله الرويشد), Wa'ad (وعد), Ehab Tawfeeq (إيهاب توفيق), Mostafa Mahfooth (مصطفى محفوظ), Amal Hejazi (أمل حجازي), Wa'el Jassar (وائل جسار), Omniyah (أمنية), Ammar Hassan (عمار حسن), Asalah (أصالة), Jailani (الشاب جيلاني), Nancy Za'abalawi (نانسي زعبلاوي), Majid Al Muhandis (ماجد المهندس), Amnah (آمنه), Lotfi Boshnaq (لطفي بوشناق), Yara (يارا), Omar Al-Abdullat (عمر عبداللات), Nawal (نوال), Noor Mhna (نور مهنا), Fatin Helal Baik (فاتن هلال بك), Mo'amin (مؤمن) and celebrities from many Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait.

You can watch full length music video below, uploaded on google video with English subtitles.

I have no idea where did they get all those lyrics for all those singers, you can find them below with English translations (they are not as good as the original Arabic though; I made them just to give you a general idea about what they are saying)

لطيفة

أنا عايزة العالم كله يمد كفوفه سلام
السلم العربي يكون سلام مش إستسلام

Latifa
I want everybody in the world to reach the palms of peace
Arab peace should be a real peace not surrender

هاني شاكر
أنا عربي و رافض صمتي كاتم إحساس جوايا
و الشعب العربي فصفي ح أقول و يردوا ورايا

Hani Shaker
I am an Arab who refuses silence; I am depressing emotions deep inside of me
The Arab people are taking my side, I'll speak up and all of them will repeat after me

نانسي عجرم
يا صاحبي يا إنسان...هنا أو في أي مكان
ببعت رسالتي ليك...نطوي بها الأحزان

Nancy Ajram
Hey human friends…Here or anywhere else
I am sending my message to you, to fold (forget) our sadness

خالد
نبني مع الملايين بالعدل و الإيمان
يالله أنا و أنت نبني العالم أمان

Khaled
Millions of us will build the world together with fair and faith
Let me and you built (spread) the world with safeness

شيرين
أصل البشر إنسان كل الرسل إخوان
موسى و عيسى و محمد بيرفضوا العدوان

Sherine (Shereen)
All people are humans; All messengers are brothers
Moses, Jesus and Mohammed refuse tyranny

صابر الرباعي
و بيرفضوا ذلنا و بيمجدوا الإنسان
الله هو المحبة دينا هو السلام

Saber Al Reba'ei (Saber Rebai)
They refuses our humiliation, they glorify human beings
God is love; Our religion is peace

رضا العبدالله
قلنا شعاع النور في حلمنا الأول
يوصل سما و بحور يا للأسف طول

Redha Al Abdullah
We thought in our first dream that the ray of light, Will reach skies and seas...
But apparently it's taking forever

آمال ماهر
طول لأن الليل خلى الضمير أبكم
لو باقي فينا يوم لابد أن نحلم

Amal Maher
It's taking forever because the darkness of the night muted our consciences
If we had one day left for us a life...We will keep dreaming in that day too

خالد سليم
مات الإحساس جوانا و إلا إحنا إللي أموات
و إلا ضمير العالم خلاص إحساسه مات

Khalid Seleem
Did our feeling die, or are we the dead ones?
Or the world's conscience is the dead one?

أحلام
و سلاح الشجب معانا شايلينه للأزمات
و الناس بتعاني معانا بدايات من غير نهايات

Ahlam
We are always carrying the weapon of deploring to use it in crises
People are being in constant agony, it starts but never ends

ديانا كرزون
قم يا أخي بالدم و إستنهض الهمة
و إصرخ و قل بالفم ما غاب بالقمة

Diana Karazon
Hey brother, stand up
Shout out load what they (presidents) didn't say in the summit

عبدالله الرويشد
سنقاوم مهما قالوا إرهاباً أو عدوان
لن يهدأ قلب فينا حتى نلقى الجولان

Abdullah Al Rowaished
We will resist no matter if they kept calling us terrorists or tyrants
We will never settle down until we retrieve the Golan Heights back

وعد
أنا رافضة أنا هيمنتك تحت ستار الحرية
أنا رافضة رأيك نصحك بإسم الديموقراطية

Wa'ad
I refuse your dominance under the cover of freedom
I refuse your opinion and tips under the name of democracy

إيهاب توفيق
الحرية مش منحة تتفضل بيها علي
إرادتنا تمحي المحنة إصحي يا أمة يا عربية

Ehab Tawfeeq
Freedom is not a grant you dedicate to me
Our will take over our Plight, wake up Arab nation

مصطفى محفوظ
عمر السلام ما كان أحلام بنشوفها منام
الظلم في كل مكان يا ناس كفاية كلام

Mostafa Mahfooth
Peace was never a dream which we see while we are sleeping
Injustice is every where; hey people stop talking and take an action

أمل حجازي
حربك ضد الإرهاب عنوان ظالم كذاب
مفهومك للحرية ضد حقوق الإنسان

Amal Hejazi
Your war against terror is unfair and false logo
Your definition of freedom is against human rights

وائل جسار
أطفال شيوخ نساء تصرخ و محدش سامع
أشلاء دماء شهداء و ضمير العالم ضايع

Wa'el Jassar
Children, old people, woman are screaming while nobody is listening
Pieces, blood and dead people…While the world's subconscious is lost

أمنية
يا أمة صحي الهمة وصلي صوتك للكون
قتلوا رموز الأمة و لا حرك فينا سكون

Omniyah
Hey nation, wake up and let your voice be heard
They killed the symbols of the nation while no one took an action

عمار حسن
هي عادة فينا نرعى حقوق الجار
هذه الشعوب غدت عزماً بغير قرار

Ammar Hassan
It's one of our habits to look after our neighbors
People became a determination without a decision

أصالة
نبكي و دمع الناس دمع بغير رياء
فإذا غفى الإحساس ماذا يفيد بكاء

Asalah (Assala, Asala)
We are crying with the people who are crying for real
If our emotions slept (If we lost our emotions)[br]What our tears will be good for?

الشاب جيلاني
عذراً رسول الله في حرمة الأديان
لو لي مدى أحياه فسأطلب الغفران

Jailani
Sorry the messenger of God, they transgressed the inviolabilities of religions
I will ask for forgiveness for the rest of my life

نانسي زعبلاوي
فبعزة التوراة و محبة الإنجيل
بحكمة القرآن تبقى الأديان دليل

Nancy Za'abalawi
In the name of the Torah's appreciation and the love of the bible…
In the name of the Qur'an's wisdom; religions will always be a guide

ماجد المهندس
غزة بغداد بيروت الحزن بكل مكان
عزيمتنا لا ما تموت راح تقوى بالإيمان

Majid Al Muhandis
Gaza, Baghdad and Beirut…Sadness is everywhere
Our determination will never die; it will get stronger with faith

آمنة فاخر
كلنا إخوان في الأزمة إيد وحدة عالعدوان
كلنا واعيين للفتنة كلنا ملك الأوطان

Amnah Fakher
Our determination will never die; it will get stronger with faith
We are all one family during crisis standing up in the face of tyranny

لطفي بوشناق
لعبتهم هي الفتنة و لازم نكون صاحيين
للفتنة و نار الفتنة و لابد نكون واعيين

Lotfi Boshnaq (Lutfi Bo Shnaq)
Their game is turning us against each others, we have to be awake
We have to realize that and the fire (subsequences) of it

يارا
لا تقول مسلم و مسيحي كلنا واحد إخوان
لا تقول سني و لا شيعي كلنا إسمنا لبنان

Yara
Don't say I am a Muslim nor Christian, we are all one family
Don't say I am Sunni nor Shitte, we are all Lebanon

عمر العبداللات
يا خويا يا عربي إحنا بقينا أغراب
يا صمتنا العربي إنطق كفاية غياب

Omar Al Abdullat
Dear Arab brother, we became strangers
Our silence, return back and speak up

نوال
إرفع جبينك فوق خلي الكلام فعل
يا ضميرنا يا عربي محال موتك محال

Nawal
Raise your forehead (face) in pride and express your words into action
Our Arab conscience, it's impossible for you to die

نور مهنا
الله يا الله عاث بنا الأعداء
ناديت يا الله ما خاب فيك رجاء

Noor Mhna
Dear God, they are spreading around us like lice
I am seeking for your help; I know you will never let me down

فاتن هلال
أيقظ ضمير الأمة رجع لها الإحساس
يا رافع الغمة صحي ضمير الناس

Fatin Helal Baik
I am seeking for your help; I know you will never let me down
Dear God, wake our nation's conscience up…[br]Let her (the nation) feel backs

مؤمن
صحي قلوب الناس صحي بها النخوة
إصرخ بكل إحساس إن العرب أخوة

Mo'amin
Dear God, Let people's hearts wake up...Let their preference for each others wakes up
Shout out load emotionally..."Arab are a family"

AGAINST THE AGONY they WON!

AGAINST THE AGONY they WON!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy

THEY WON!
I am really happy for them, they won the Asian cup for the first time although they've been under massive agony!
When they won the game with Korea, Iraqi people went out in the streets celebrating the victory, 50 were killed and more were injured by a terror explosion.
Their football team consists of many players with different ethnic and religious backgrounds, yet they played as a team and proved to the world that differences means NOTHING.

VIVA IRAQ and f**K BUSH AND CONDOLESSA RICE :D

USA support Al Qa'eda

I just read a translation of an article in the Kuwaiti newspaper "Al Rai Al Aam", the orginal article was published in the May/June 2007 issue of ForeignAffairs magzine.

You can read the summary below or VIEW the full article as written by the author Bruce Riedel.

By rushing into Iraq instead of finishing off the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Washington has unwittingly helped its enemies: al Qaeda has more bases, more partners, and more followers today than it did on the eve of 9/11. Now the group is working to set up networks in the Middle East and Africa -- and may even try to lure the United States into a war with Iran. Washington must focus on attacking al Qaeda's leaders and ideas and altering the local conditions in which they thrive.
Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired last year after 29 years with the Central Intelligence Agency. He served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East Affairs on the National Security Council (1997-2002), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1995-97), and National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Intelligence Council (1993-95).

Avaaz.Org

Stop the Clash of Civilizations

Outlandish - Look into my eyes song

I was "Googleing" today and I found by accident the lyrics of Outlandish song Look into my eyes, the song reflects the way many Arab and Muslims feels.

I searched about the song and I found out more informations about it...It was originally written on 21st of August 2003 by a Palestanian little girl called "Gihad Ali", the original poem's title is "Eye to Eye: A Palestinian talking to Americans".

You can read the lyrics and watch the music video below.




Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
You don't see a damn thing
'cause you can't relate to me
You're blinded by our differences
My life makes no sense to you
I'm the persecuted one
You're the red, white and blue

Each day you wake in tranquility
No fears to cross your eyes
Each day I wake in gratitude
Thanking God He let me rise
You worry about your education
And the bills you have to pay
I worry about my vulnerable life
And if I'll survive another day
Your biggest fear is getting a ticket
As you cruise your Cadillac
My fear is that the tank that has just left
Will turn around and come back

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight
I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters

See I've known terror for quite some time
57 years so cruel
Terror breathes the air I breathe
It's the checkpoint on my way to school
Terror is the robbery of my land
And the torture of my mother
The imprisonment of my innocent father
The bullet in my baby brother
The bulldozers and the tanks
The gases and the guns
The bombs that fall outside my door
All due to your funds
You blame me for defending myself
Against the ways of my enemies
I'm terrorized in my own land
But am I the terrorist?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

America, do you realize that the taxes that you pay
Feed the forces that traumatize my every living day
So if I won't be here tomorrow
It's written in my fate
May the future bring a brighter day
The end of our wait

(pause)

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

Ohh let's not cry tonight I promise you one day is through
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!
Ooh shine a light for every Soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!

VIVA IRAQ FREEDOM!

US soldier admits Iraq girl rape

US investigations into deaths

A US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.

James Barker agreed to the plea deal at the start of his court-martial in the US to avoid the death penalty, his civilian lawyer said.

A criminal investigation began in June into the killing of the family of four in their home in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in March 2006.

Specialist Barker is one of four US soldiers charged with murder.

They are alleged to have helped a former private - who has since been discharged from the army - to plan, carry out and cover up the attack.

Two of the soldiers could face the death penalty if found guilty.

All four soldiers belong to the 2nd Brigade of the elite 101st Airborne Division.

Separate trial

Specialist Barker had agreed to co-operate with prosecutors and will testify against the others, his civilian lawyer, David Sheldon, said.

US troops have been accused of several abuses in Iraq

The others charged with rape and murder were Pte Jesse Spielman, Sgt Paul Cortez, and Pte Bryan Howard.

In addition, former soldier Steven Green has been charged in a civilian court and is awaiting trial in a Kentucky jail.

He was discharged from the army for a personality disorder earlier this year, and in July pleaded not guilty to charged of murder and sexual assault.

Later on Wednesday, a military court in California is due to hand down a sentence to a private who admitted to involvement in the death of an Iraqi civilian near the town of Hamdaniya last April.

Source: BBC website

[CENSORSHIP] DIE AND THEY'LL MAKE SURE NO ONE WILL KNOW ABOUT YOU!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

According to Islam, burring dead people is a way to respect them but I think that rule doesn't work in War situation.
People should know what's going on around them no matter how hard and disturbing it is.

I understand that porn is allowed in the media while knowing the truth is not, I wonder if showing a peni* up to a puss*/as* is more important than showing justice and the truth to the world...
Isn't that against "so called" DemocrASSy?
I thought democrASSy is having the right to express your self, to be heard and seen by others while the truth is being buried because of some silly rules created by HUMANS.

Baghdad :: House of Wisdom

It's makes me sad when I see how Baghdad ended up when I watched those two videos.

Does a dumb Arab & Muslim guy "such as me" really have a right of speech?
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

Yesterday while I was at work, I was checking some one's (was in my friends list and I was in his/her) photo stream.. .There I found one photo of a tied guy with the comment (A comment not the photo's description) below says That he wish to see all the Arab terrorists to be tied this way.

I replied with the comment "There is a different between terrorism and defending your own country + I will look better than that guy if I was tied LOL".
(F.Y.I. I consider 9/11 attacked pure terrorism)
In the evening I was uploading a photo, then I checked my flickr mail and there was a msg from the owner of that photos stream, I read his msg but i couldn't reply because I was blocked plus I was banned from his/her groups; since because I am a silly,dumb, terrorist Muslim & Arab with no rights of speech,no brain and dignity, who should be killed curley.

Anyway that person asked me to go and fight side by side with Hezbollah, I really would love to but I didn't for two reasons, first I don't have a camouflage outfit & the second I won't be able to login flickr anymore and upload more photos since Israel blown up everything communications, power stations and TV stations to stop them from showing the truth about what's going on in Lebanon; probably know one would ever care about what I am talking about since everybody have their own right of speech except Arabs & Muslims.

I don't blame the owner of the photos stream because he/she clearly has a stereo type idea of Muslims and Arabs delivered to him through a non objective western media and some idiots such as Osama Bin laden and Saddam Hussain, yet I do blame him for not seeking the truth him/her self.
At least he/she had to put him/her self in Arabs & Muslims shoes to realize how does killing his own family, neighbors, friends, husbands or wife makes him/ her feel.

Have any of you seen these images through any of your reliable media such as CNN, BBC or maybe NEWSWEEK?
Perhaps you'll need to few a LARGER IMAGE to make sure that those little murdered kids really belongs to Hezbollah and Hamas!

I believe it's easy for people who does not live in the Arab & Muslims countries to criticize them for taking a reaction against the daily murders they are performed by Israel..
I don't get why the Westerns only see the reaction while they skip the reason?! Since I am a dumb Arab & Muslim could someone help?

If you didn't agree about anything I said let me know because I really would love to discuss it and I do promise no hard feelings (at least my side).

Have a peaceful week..

To the tyrants of the world!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

On behalf every mother and father who lost a son or a daughter..
On behalf every girl or a guy who lost a brother, a sister or a friend…
On behalf every wife and husband…
On behalf humanity…
On behalf the late civilians in IRAQ and the WORLD.

To the unfair tyrants..
To the lover of the darkness..
To the enemy of life..

You've made fun of innocent people wounds; and your palm covered with their blood
You started deforming the charm of existence and growing seeds of sadness in their land

Wait, don't let the spring, the clearness of the sky and the shine of the morning light to fool you
Because the darkness, the thunder rumble and the blowing of the wind are coming toward you from the horizon

Beware becasue there is a fire underneath the ashWho grow thorns will reaps wounds

You've took off heads of people and the flowers of hope; and watered the sand with blood until it's got drunk!

The blood's river will take you off and you will be burned by the fiery storm!


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