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Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

Mahmoud Darwish

original: “لربما القمر ليس جميلا إلا لأنه بعيد”

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Original song by Dalida, cover by Lina Sleibi

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English Translation

Nothing pleases me the traveler on the bus says—Not the radio or the morning newspaper, nor the citadels on the hills. I want to cry / The driver says: Wait until you get to the station, then cry alone all you want / A woman says: Me too. Nothing pleases me. I guided my son to my grave, he liked it and slept there, without saying goodbye / A college student says: Nor does anything please me. I studied archaeology but didn’t find identity in stone. Am I really me? / And a soldier says: Me too. Nothing pleases me. I always besiege a ghost besieging me / The edgy driver says: Here we are almost near our last stop, get ready to get off . . . / Then they scream: We want what’s beyond the station, keep going! As for myself I say: Let me off here. I am like them, nothing pleases me, but I’m worn out from travel.

(Translation from the Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish)

-الدنيا العربيى

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-الدنيا العربيى