#ghorba

[bizaarbazaarbyrocktea]

LIVE #06 / GHORBA Performed by : @ghorbadj Recorded in July 28, 2019 at Airtight at The Stud, San Francisco, CA.

[assaad53]

Repost @afkarproduction by @media.repost: #afkarproduction #أفكار_برودكشن #ghorba #مسلسل_غربة#lilianeboustany#lbci #wissamhanna#farahbitarofficial ليليان_بستاني#series#tv#lebanesedrama https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RMJb9AQN9/?igshid=4x8dhqofnvk5

[loverholicpae]

No shave November finally over, time to clean that face lol #cycleholic #mountainbiking #ghorba #bayoupark #houston

[inventoryofinfinitetraces]

My Father's land and a state of strangeness

This was written back in July and I don’t know where else to put it except on here.

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Im spending a portion of this summer in the country my father calls home. I’ve played the tourist a long, long time ago - this trip is purely the unwritten duty of the eldest daughter of the eldest son. I am here like every summer visiting family.

Family here is dysfunctional. Family here is a motley crew plagued with jealousy and hurt and anger and yet infused with love and laughter. Family here is important, family comes before anything else regardless of how many times they disappoint and neglect and take advantage. That’s what I’ve been told a thousand times over. In my fathers eyes this place is where I’m from despite being born and bred in London and despite as my mother always says, there being polish blood coursing through my veins, I am her daughter too of course.

On the sporadic telephone calls from London to my grandmother, where I stumble and stutter over words I should know, in a language I also should know, she never fails to slip in this sentence “enough of ghorba”.

The Arabic word Ghorba, has no English equivalent and even attempting to string several words together, sentences even still renders it not totally translatable. But I’ve seen it translated as homesickness, a sense of strangeness, the feeling of alienation, not belonging, the intense yearning for one’s homeland. But it’s also a place, Al ghorba is anywhere but home. The irony is it is here where my light olive complexion and dark brown hair blends into the kaleidoscope of colours that make up this nation, where my name isn’t an unwelcome tongue twister, that I feel out of place. It is here that I feel strange, alien, dislocated. It is here that I feel stripped of who I feel I am and people try and mould me into perceptions of who they think I should be. El ghorba for me is here and when I listen to Fairouz’s crooning voice longing for home, while those in the diaspora or exile long for Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq I long for somewhere else.

[runningrobg]

Houston Area Trail Runners volunteers with Memorial Park Conservancy to help maintain trails.

Houston Area Trail Runners volunteers with Memorial Park Conservancy to help maintain trails.

HATR volunteering

  Houston Area Trail Runners volunteers with Memorial Park Conservancy to help maintain trails.

On Saturday March 15th the Houston Area Trail Runners were able to give back to the trails that we call home. Our normally meets our at the Ho Chi Minh Trails that are the south side of Memorial park and are the oasis decribed by most in the city. These are natural surface trails that…

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[moustafaaamer]

!مش قادر اعيش بعيد عنها...ولا عارف اعيش فيها 

[egyptianexistence]

I need to be in Egypt this summer idc masr isa 7akoon 3andek 2orayeb

[viewfrommontmartre]

Ramenez moi dans mon pays, mes amis me manquent et ma mère surtout. "Eddouni la bladi, twahachte bladi wa shabi wal kathra oumimti"