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Bahr by Mashrou Leila, performed, recorded, and filmed in 360 on a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Produced in collaboration with Greenpeace during the band's #SunUnitesUs residency aboard the Rainbow Warrior. 

Bahr (The Sea)

Oh night, shroud me; veil me with your darkness Oh night, impregnate me; empower me with your darkness My brother saw the secret; saw the secret he would've revealed My brother, seized by the waves, seized by the waves as he squealed And the fishermen just slept

Oh Poseidon return to me, return to me my brother The waves have swindled me; have robbed me of my brother I took him to the shore, so the waves may wash him clean, And there upon that shore, stained the waves incarnadine. And the fishermen just slept

My brother lies with the mermaids, bring him back to me My brother was stolen by the waves, won’t you bring him back to me My brother left me with the break of dawn, never to return to me He lies upon the ocean floor, never to return to me .

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((We don't really know if you're that eager for angst quite yet.))

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Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman - Here is not Yemen

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Sirusho - Zoma Zoma

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Hi. I’m 1/8 Turkish & 1/8 Georgian. I’ve never felt middle eastern/West Asian enough and I feel like since I wasn’t raised with the Georgian or Turkish culture I have no right to participate in it. My middle eastern dad claims he’s white, he doesn’t participate in the culture because his dad died before he was to teach him or his brothers anything. I just don’t feel West asian enough.

It’s always hard for mixed people to feel completley as parts of their ethnic backgrounds. Especially when you were denied that culutural background by whatever reasons. Just be you and try to find out about your backgrounds as much as you want and can. Start by cooking more of the specific cuisine, watching movies and series in original language with subtitles. Join clubs there are a bunch of them around the world and if you are lucky and live in or at least close to a big city then your chances are higher. Maybe try to learn the languages and find native speakers who can teach you, who can also teach you cultural things.This is just the tip of the iceberg and you can go further down and maybe some followers have some suggestions as well. 

-Mod Nur

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Stream and buy CAVALRY here: http://hyperurl.co/MashrouLeilaCavalry

We're ecstatic to finally reveal CAVALRY, the first single from our forthcoming album ' THE BEIRUT SCHOOL' . An album that celebrates the first 10 years of Mashrou Leila and kicks off our next chapter together on our biggest European tour to date in March!

Cavalry is an ode to putting up a fight, even when the odds are stacked against us. It’s a song about not letting political fatigue destroy our willingness to speak truth to power.

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A-WA - "Mudbira" 

Song Available Here: http://a-wa.ffm.to/mudbira

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A middle eastner: *speaks about their experience as a middle eastner.* A non mena person sliding in: *ACTUALLY THAT'S NOT RIGHT LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE REALLY IS BASED ON MY RACIAL PREJUDICES!!

@ all the people denying first hand experinces

-mod Nur