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The Arab Kufiya - Shadia Mansour and M-1 - الكوفية العربية شادية منصور

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    Good morning, cousins.
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    Come and honor us with your presence.
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    What would you like us to offer you, Arab blood or tears from our eyes?
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    I believe that's how they hoped we would greet them. Look how they grew confused when they realized their mistake.
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    That's how we wear the kufiya, the black and white kufiya.
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    They began playing a long time ago by wearing it as a fashion accessory.
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    No matter how creative they become, no matter how they change its color,
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    an Arab kufiya will remain Arab.
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    Our kufiya: they want it. Our culture: they want it.
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    Our dignity: they want it. Everything that's ours: they want it.
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    No, we won't be quiet for them. We won't permit them.
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    No, no. It suits me.
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    Thank you. The thing isn't theirs. It's got nothing to do with you.
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    They mimic us in how they dress. This land is not enough for them.
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    They're greedy for Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Learn how to say "humanity!"
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    Before you wear the kufiya, we have come to remind you who we are.
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    And whether you like it or not, it's our kufiya.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (because of patriotism), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (our fundamental identity), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Come on, raise the kufiya (Raise this kufiya for me!), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Raise it, bilaad ash-shaam [Greater Syria, i.e. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine]! The Arab kufiya will remain Arab.
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    There is no group like the Arab people.
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    Show me any nation in the world that's more influential!
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    The picture is clear. We're the civilization.
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    Our history and our heritage are the witness to our existence.
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    In this way, we wore the Palestinian thawb.
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    From Haifa, Jenin, Jabal an-Nar to Ramallah
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    Let me see the koufiye, the white and red one.
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    Let me raise it up to the sky.
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    I am Shadia the Arab. My tongue stabs like a knife.
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    My earthquake trembles uncontrollably. My words are a letter.
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    Record it - I am Shadia Mansour and the kufiya is my identity.
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    From the day I was created, Sir, and this people is my responsibility.
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    That's how I was brought up - between the West and East,
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    between two languages, between the [rich] miser and the poor man.
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    I saw life from both sides.
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    I'm like the koufiye.
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    No matter how you wear me, and wherever you take me off, I will remain as my origin: Palestinian.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (because of patriotism), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (our fundamental indentity), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Come on, raise the kufiya (Raise this kufiya for me!), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Raise it, bilaad ash-shaam [Greater Syria, i.e. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine]! The Arab kufiya will remain Arab.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (because of patriotism), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    This is how we wore the kufiya (our fundamental indentity), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Come on, raise the kufiya (Raise this kufiya for me!), the kufiya, the Arab kufiya.
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    Raise it, bilaad ash-shaam [Greater Syria, i.e. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine]! The Arab kufiya will remain Arab.
Title:
The Arab Kufiya - Shadia Mansour and M-1 - الكوفية العربية شادية منصور
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Video Language:
Arabic
Duration:
04:23

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