A Tour in My Mind

Music from Iraq :)

Here is a more than a millennium old Arabic poem. It is by a famous Arab poet named Abu at-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi (915 – 23 September 965). He is considered to be one of the greatest poets in Arabic literature. Here you can enjoy listening to the recitation of the Poem in Arabic : The English translation of the Poem :  I was lucky enough to find its translation at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-heart-is-aflame/ My heart is aflame, burning with love for you While your heart is frigid-cold toward me You think so lightly of me, treating me with such indifference My soul is sickened, my body debilitated Why should I conceal a love that has consumed my body When pretenders fake the love of Saif-Al-Dawlah If what brings us together is our common love for you I wish we would meritoriously share your bounties Each according to the love he harbors for you I have been in your presence while rapiers sheathed And gazed at you when swords blood-stained And found you to be

Laugh As Long As It’s Allowed to Do So…….  “Laugh before laughing gets expensive as well”, it’s an old Egyptian proverb to make fun of the high prices of pretty much everything. So, the only thing left without being so expensive is laughter. But is that really the case nowadays?!!! It seems that laughter can get you in so much trouble. We are having a crisis when it comes to the freedom of speech & the freedom of expression. It all started 3 years ago when people took to the streets to topple Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Many, many youths were hoping for a better Egypt - one where they could express their points of view freely without fear of discrimination. Many dreamed, and believed, that they could make that dream come true; but the many lies, and propaganda as usual, in the media made it difficult.  Simply, it was time for someone to start making fun of all that awkwardness & contradiction in the mainstream media. A satire show started on a YouTube channel by an Egyptian p