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لن ينقذوا القادة العرب ، حتى انفسهم!
تغاضى القادة العرب عن حضور قمة الامم المتحدة حول تغيّر المناخ. فهل اعتقدوا ان هذا الحل الانسب لايقاف تدهور المناخ العام؟
ريتا بولس شهوان
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عليا الحاجو: ترسم النميمة على جدران المنيارة
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فتاة ترسم النميمة على جدران المنيارة. عليا الحاجو، نطق وجعها الاجتماعي بالرسم، الا ان الثورة تتهاوى امام ولع الاطفال بالالوان.
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تحلّيت بالصمت.. واعتزلت الكلام
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تحلّيت بالصمت واعتزلت الكلام
في وطن عشقته حدّ الإدمان
اناسه محكومون بالاعدام
وزعماؤه على الدنيا السلام!!
تحلّيت بالصمت واعتزلت الكلام
في وطن لا يعرف معنى السلام
فالحق فيه مهان ومدان
والأمل فيه ركام وحطام.
عم يضّحكوا علينا
عم يضّحكوا علينا.
واللّه…..عم يضّحكوا علينا
ونحنا بدورنا عم نضحكلهن..
ومصفّايين اتنيناتنا….
عم نضّحك عبعض….مع بعض
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لمّا يقولولنا “ديموقراطيّة توافقيّة”…..
إي… بيكونوا عم بيضّحكوا علينا…..
هيدي ما بتظبط….ديموقراطيّة…وتوافقّية؟….
هودي ولا ممكن يركبوا سوا….
ولا ممكن يتوافقوا…ولو ديموقراطيّاَ يعني
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لمّا يقولولنا “الحكومة مش عم تركب”
إي… بيكونوا عم بيضّحكوا علينا…..
هيي للحقيقة….إنّو الحكومة بتركب…
بسّ هنّي… ما بدّن يركّبوها إلاّ عوجا…..
وما بحياتها أصلاً ركبِت إلاّ عوجا….
الحكومات كلها…. عوجا… من قديم وجرّ….
مصفّاية عم تركب عالمواطن….
وعم بترَكِّب عضهروا…
ديونات ما بتركب براس حدا
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إي….ف عم يضَحكوا علينا
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لمّا يقولولنا إنّو نحنا قادرين ندير البلد
من دون أيّ تدخّل خارجي…..
إي… بيكونوا عم بيضّحكوا علينا…..
لأنّو ما في شي بصير عنّا بالبلد….
من دون تدخّل خارجي……
ما شي بتاتاً….
و”الخارجي”….بحال قرّر إنّو ما بدّو يتدخّل بشؤن البلد الدقيقة….
بضيع ألله تبعولو “الداخلي”…. وبتصفّي حالتو جدّاً دقيقة
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إي….ف….. عم يضّحكوا علينا
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لمّا بقولوا عن إعلامنا… حرّ وشفّاف وموضوعي…..
هودي بيكونوا…. عم بيضّحكوا علينا…..
إعلامنا مسيّس بقوّة….ومنّو حرّ….ومنّو موضوعي….
وأنا جدّاً جدّاً أكيد من موضوعي
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وأنا جدّاً جدّاً أكيد كمان….إنّو عم يضّحكوا علينا….
بسّ لنوضّح الإشيا يعني…..
عم يضّحكوا علينا عصوت عالي……
هنّي واقفين حدنا…وبلزقنا كمان….
ونحنا بردو…عم نضّحك معهن….
هنّي ونحنا…..عم نضّحك علينا….
إحتراماتنا
Womens of today are they perfect?
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Woman born of Woman
Loved, respected and suffering by a man
Friend, Mother,wife,lover
One,none.all
Faithful,beleiver
Love,hate, knowledge,mystery, magic
Fertility,creativity
Pain,Euphoria
Birth,Life, Death,resurrection
Never ending Cycles,
Conflicting dreams,
Nurture,nature
Heart breaking screams
Everlasting longing to the perfect land
Beginning ,end
Seeking, searching, learning
What makes a Woman a perfect Woman?
قصتنا بهالمجتمع
القصة يللي رح احكيها
قصتنا بهالمجتمع
يمكن احلى لو غنيها
حتى المجتمع يسمع
مجتمعنا ديمقراطي
يعني صاحب القرار
هوي الشعب
و شعبي راضي
خلف الخوف و الانتظار
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مش ضروري المركز يبقى
للعيلة بالوراثة
يعني اللي بيّو حرامي
ليش ابنو بيطلع سراق
متل اللي بيّو شي نايب
ابنو بيطلع سياسي
و اللي بيّو شي حاكم
ابنو بياخد الكرسي
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ثلات كلمات ووردةٌ حمراء ورحيلٌ
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لا يمكن أن تذوي ، لا يمكن ان يموت.
اسمها هو مألوف وربما كنت تعترف
الصداقة ودعا المؤمنين به.
لقد نثرت بعض الزهور ، واحد لكل صديق
وأعتقد أنه كان أربعة ، ولكن على وجه الخصوص أتذكر
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Arab Leaders Wake Up!
IndyACT Slams Arab Heads of State for Lack of Action on Climate Change
BEIRUT – on September 22, 2009: Last night more than 100 environmental activists sounded the alarm in Ein El-Mreiseh square, where a Climate Change Countdown Clock will be erected to mark the short three-month time we still have to reach a global agreement that would save the planet form climate change during a summit in Copenhagen. They called on Arab Heads of State, who most of them missed a key climate summit today in New York, to wake up and engage the negotiation process.
Members, supporters and partners from the global league of independent Activists-IndyACT sounded the alarms of their clocks and mobile phones, honked their horns and banged their musical instruments, making a tremendous noise in a symbolic action, part of a global ‘Wake-Up call’. The activists also held up a banner saying “it is time for climate action”, and another sign that says “Wake UP 12:18” to mark the 18th of December when a new global climate agreement is supposed to be reached. This global call, which took place simultaneously with over 2000 similar events in more than 120 countries, is a joint effort of the “TckTckTck” Campaign; an international alliance including IndyACT, 350.org, Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, and many others. The action comes amid expert warnings that the UN climate pact in Copenhagen in December risks failure unless world leaders revive bogged-down negotiations at today’s UN Heads of State climate summit, ahead of the UN General Assembly.
“Again Arab leaders missed yet another opportunity to defend the survival needs of the region from climate change impacts.” said Wael Hmaidan, Executive Director of IndyACT. “While today’s climate summit is attended by Presidents of the US, France, China and many others, only Algeria participated at the Presidential level from the Arab region”, added Hmaidan.
At the summit today, Heads of State will be discussing how the effort to fight climate change should be shared between the developed and developing countries, and how much financial and technological assistance will be transferred from the industrialized to the poor and most vulnerable countries to help them achieve a low-carbon growth. IndyACT has been participating in all the negotiation sessions similar to this one that should lead to achieving an ambitious, fair and binding agreement in Copenhagen. In all of these sessions the Lebanese and many other Arab delegations have never taken the floor to speak even once. “The main Arab countries engaging the negotiations are Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, who only defend their oil trade. The Arab region is more than oil, and we have to know that if climate change is not addressed properly, we will lose our agriculture, water, economy and livelihood of our people in the region and globally”, declared Hmaidan.
IndyAct along with international NGOs and civil society worldwide consider the Copenhagen Summit as a key moment in our history, and call all the Arab governments to have an active and positive role in reducing global CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to 350 ppm (parts per million). 350 ppm is the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere that we need to reach to keep the global warming below two degrees Celsius and avoid catastrophic climate change impacts.
مقابلات العمل
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مقابلات العمل، تتحول احيانا الى معركة رسم الخط الازرق، في مجتمع بطرياركي. يومها، وضمن محاولات الاقناع بوظيفة لا تقترب من طموحي، شردت بذهني خارج “فردان” ، حيث تجري احداث المقابلة .
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وحي الكرامة
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أترضاني وثنياًً ماساً عرضكَ, وذابحاً أباك وأخاك, ووصياًً لأمتك, ومضطهدا لعشيرتك. وترفضني شيعياً محبَّا لعائلتك, ومقاوما لأمتك, وعادلاً لعشيرتك.
نجاءَ المحبةِ يشحُّ وعاءَ روحي, وكل أملي سَكْبُ بعضه في وعاءِك, لأُوزِنَ حقدا سَكَبهُ رفاقك. وكلُّّ مناي صُنع سلامُ محيطكَ, لأحُلَََّ معركةًً أوجدوها [Read more →]
عن الدولة…والمواطون (الجزء الأوّل(
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بعرفها كتير منيح
عنّي منّا غريبة بالمرّة
بايد فنجان القهوة
و بين شفافها عم تلعب السيغارة وحدة من ألعابها الوسخة [Read more →]
الواقع
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تدحرج السنين ونحن نلامس قطرات الحياة.
نعم، انها الأيام التي تعدو والذكريات التي تسبح في ملعب الأقدار.
ولكن المصيبة تكمن في الدموع التي لا تدع الينابيع أن تجف.
نحن نعلم أن الحياة المتخبطة بالأحداث مشوقة لأنها لا تخلو من المغامرة.
وإن المنافسة شرف رحلة القدر؛ولكن النفس تتعب من رؤية الوجوه المقنعة في كل يوم.
والتحدي الأكبر القدرة على تطفئة نيران الغظب بمياه الصبر.
فنحن بتنا نعيش في زمن كثرت فيه المعارف وقلت فيه الصداقة الحقيقية.
اليأس من هذا الواقع ليس الحل،ولكننا حتماً نتجه نحو مستقبل حالك
The Memorial of Laura Rahal in Gothenburg -Sweden 2009-09-19
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I en sommar dag fanns du där
Som en fågel med sin familj flyttade du hit och du hamnade här
Du flaxade med dina vingar
Himmelens uddar har alltid varit dina boningar
Du Laura!!!
Din vackra i själen,I ansiktet och i hjärtat
Du fanns och kommer alltid att finnas i hjärtat
Kanske vi glömmer dig om vi glömmer hur vackra blommorna är?
Men, hur kan vi glömma dig du som är sommarens vackra blommor och dess söta bär?
Hur kan vi glömma våra namn ,ansikten och hela denna atmosfär?
Varje gång det kommer sommar regn ,kommer vi att bevattnas av dina droppar
Varje gång himmelens klara blåa djup täcker över oss ,kommer vi att känna värmen och hoppet att åter få se dig.
Why I threw the shoe – Muntazer al-Zaidi
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents.
I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.
Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.
We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.
Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.
I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.
As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.
The opportunity came, and I took it.
I took it out of loyalty to every drop of innocent blood that has been shed through the occupation or because of it, every scream of a bereaved mother, every moan of an orphan, the sorrow of a rape victim, the teardrop of an orphan.
I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.
When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.
If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.
I didn’t do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.
Muntazer al-Zaidi is an Iraqi reporter who was freed this week after serving nine months in prison for throwing his shoe at former US president George Bush at a press conference. This edited statement was translated by McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Sahar Issa www.mcclatchydc.com
From “The Guardian”
