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countriesgame · 5 months

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Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Lebanon, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#lebanon #asia #country polls #polls

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n3xii · 5 months

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why you're an icon (pac)

maybe a year ago i started (but did not finish) a series where I did posts describing why you're an icon. Today I plan on continuing that- this reading will describe why people are drawn to you and what they love most about you. today's muse is Fairouz, also spelled Fayrouz, Fairuz in English. Her name in Lebanese (hopefully pls correct if mistranslated <3) : فيروز, check out my services if you're interested in a personal reading : services

Fairouz is one of the most famous Lebanese singers and is considered today to be a major icon in the Arab world. Listening to her is my gateway to middle eastern music especially arabic pop in the 60's and 70's. One of my favorite things about her is the way she performed, according to her Wikipedia page she would be known to take a rigid, cold stance while performing. She claimed that the nature of her performances is because she is singing as if she were praying. a user on Pinterest called her the middle eastern lana del rey and i will never recover. anyways, select your pile and I will have a song by the queen for you to listen to.

PILE ONE-

cards: king of cups, queen of wands, 6 of cups, mars in pisces

song: Fayek Ya Hawa

you're a captivating, magnetic person. You have a way of capturing your passion with a almost childlike wonder, you remind people of what it's like to be a kid again and to just love something from the bottom of your heart. You have an ability to channel complex emotions from such a poetic perspective, you have this ability to channel your inner child when it comes to what you're passionate about. you possess a borderline psychic ability to portray emotions especially though creativity, you communicate things in such a way that it just resonates with so many people.

with the mars in Pisces card, this tells me that you are someone dedicated to understanding, empathizing and connecting with people. you have an unlimited range of creativity and a very developed imagination. you have such a way of wanting to help people feel understood, you're strongly motivated to act based on how you feel and as well as how other people feel. this motivation may even be self sacrificing at times. people love that you have a boundless sense of empathy. you dont withhold sympathy for anyone, you have the capability to connect with people regardless of who they are or how far they are from you.

PILE TWO

your cards- mars in leo, the emperor, two of swords

song: Sayyef ya sayf

you carry of confidence that demands power. You make decisions with certainty that regardless of what you do, you will always end up exactly where you need to be. People love that you're not the type to listen to other people, you drown out the voices of people trying to distract you and challenge the inner strength you have.

You have the tendency to take over and lead, and even if you arent aware of it, you influence people around you. the influence you have over the people in your life cannot be understated. you thrive when you are able to direct others. in fact you presence and personality type may be ''overbearing'' for some people, you're just not the type to shy away from expressing yourself and taking the lead. to some that may be perceived as confrontational and overpowering but many people actually love that you weren't born to be a follower.

people like you just know how to get things done. you excel at everything you do and take pride in your work. people love your ''ego'' and confidence. you're not afraid to overshine people. besides, its not your fault that people dim their own light.

PILE THREE

your cards: mars in taurus, page of cups and justice

song: Saalouny el nas

first of all, this pile has a clear foundation of right and wrong and you're willing to stand on that no matter what. people love that you're almost stubborn about what you believe. you're willing to go and fight for it and defend yourself against anyone.

but at the same time, this pile is very emotional and sensitive. your morals come straight from your heart. You're raw and vulnerable and you're willing to protect your heart more than anything else in this world. Sensitivity is seen as a weakness, but for you its your number one strength. its the quality that makes you willing to fend for yourself and other people. I knew someone like this in real life- upon first meeting her you might assume she was intimidating, scary, and even mean. but i watched this girl be brought to tears at the sound of a baby crying, I watched her fight against people who were stealing, I watched her loose her temper over anything that she felt disrespected her and her friends. By no means was she considered weak; she was vulnerable about what upset her, she was vulnerable about her mental health issues, and that made her strong and intimidating to people. it made me respect her more than anyone in my life. if you fucked with her, you were the one who ended up suffering. that's who this pile reminds me of.

I also feel that this pile is strongly motivated by their taste in fashion and luxury, people love your taste and its one of the things they remember about you.

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danepopfrippery · 2 months

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Fairuz is a famous Lebanese christian singer. This is one of her songs for Palestine We Shall Return Someday by #fairuz #freegaza #freepalestine #gaza

Lyrics in English

#fairuz #palestine #gaza #free gaza

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fairuzfan · 3 months

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Hello! Are you malay or Indonesian? Asking cause I’m malay and your tumblr name is a relatively popular Malaysian name and I’m curious cause it’s always nice to see people from my country here. It’s the ‘same hat’ meme.

ohh no im not i didn't know fairuz is a popular malay or indonesian name! my url is actually from the singer "fairuz", shes lebanese and is considered one of the best singers in SWANA.

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I have a question about music! I want to get more into Arabic music (women specifically) but the only Arabic musician I know of right now is Faouzia, who is AMAZING, however she doesn’t have a lot of music in Arabic. She uses cultural inspiration in her music (she’s Moroccan), but only has a couple songs with one Arabic word in it (Habibi & Puppet). I like listening to music in other languages and was hoping maybe you had recommendations for Arabic female musicians

never heard of faouzia! thanks for informing me of her. and yes im gonna first name some famous arabic pop singers and then ill move onto some that i also like:

nancy ajram

this woman is probably one of the biggest popstars in the arab world and has been for decades. she has a lot of great hits and id honestly just recommend going thru her music esp her older stuff bc you might like something in there. shes a lebanese christian

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2. haifa wehbe

not a fan of hers but she has some hits and shes also one of the most renowned popstars.

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3. myriam fares

also one of the bigger popstars, she also tends to play with a lot of arabic genres. shes mostly known for her dancing i think, shes quite talented but im not big on her music (im just sharing my faves btw so this is one of my faves and its clearly awful quality)

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4. ruby

i looooooove ruby she was basically the only dark-skinned woman i saw in mainstream arab media and shes an awful dancer but makes amazing music and is also an actress (and ive heard shes quite good at that too) and is a good singer. also afaik shes one of the few female artists that didnt get plastic surgeries (if she did its so mild that its not noticeable). shes egyptian (previous singers i shared are all lebanese)

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5. shadia mansour

one of the only female rappers i know of, i dont know much of her music but this song is really good and the lyrics are amazing. shes palestinian & british and this song is about palestinian resistance basically

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6. elyanna

this one is more modern than my other recommendations fhsdfhds but shes quite good, iirc shes half palestinian half..chilean? i think?

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7. samira said

shes north african, i Think tunisian, and one of the bigger popstars from the 2000s. i dont really listen to most of her music but this one's a classic:

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8. fairuz

this one's quite old-fashioned but definitely a classic and her music continues to be played a lot today... especially by lebanese people. shes a lebanese singer who i think was really prominent for decades starting from the 50s. not sure how her music will be perceived by someone who didn't grow up hearing it tho. shes also lebanese christian

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9. luka salam

only know one song of hers but its a nice one, the lyrics are great and i was obsessed with it at one point. i know shes got others. idk where shes from tbh

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10. maryam saleh

i only know one song of hers too but its also a nice one. shes egyptian

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adding more in reblogs bc i ran out of links to add lol

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uswnt5 · 5 months

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christen's story about the word "soubhiye" hit me hard 🥺 it was so unexpected and Because I'm arab I felt too soft. I'd like if anyone who's subscribed to re can advise her to listen to a very famous Lebanese singer called fairuz, she's all we listen to during our soubhiyes and I think Christen will enjoy her songs !

That's amazing! I'm glad it touched you!

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loneberry · 1 year

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Fairuz - Good Friday: Eastern Sacred Songs

1967 album by the legendary Lebanese Christian soprano singer Fairuz on Holy Week (compliation of religious songs from Maronite, Greek Orthodox, and Greek Catholic traditions).

This album is fucking incredible. My dear friend and Semiotext(e) editor Hedi El Kholti introduced me to it one night in his car when he pulled it up on his iPod (“You still have an iPod Hedi?? Technology should have stopped evolving at the iPod.”) I promise I’ll stop blasting you with Easter/Holy Week content after this. What would you expect from a lapsed Catholic? I’ve always loved Easter… why not celebrate it twice, on the Gregorian calendar (western Christian Easter) and Julian calendar (Orthodox Easter)?

Listen to the whole album on Spotify:

Listen on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVTGxENoB15cWQfyi9pe2EfmYT7Qx2KJ5

#music #easter #Fairuz #Lebanese music #religion

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almr001 · 1 month

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I was listening to “Konna Netlaka”, a song by lebanese singer Fairuz, while drawing this woman whom I found on pinterest :В

“Oh, my old years that passed, please come back

Just for one time come back

And leave me on the door steps of the childhood”

#art #artists on tumblr #artwork #drawing #traditional art #sketchbook #sketchbook art

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taminoarticles · 2 years

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— Tamino for GQ Middle East, September 2022 (x)

Tamino’s Truth

On the brink of a new album and tour, Belgian-Arab singer Tamino Amir is ready to take his career to the next level. But there won’t be room for compromise.

Words Jad Salfiti Photography Emil Pabon Styling Adrien Gras Groomer Sanne Schoofs Producer Mercator

STEPPING OFF THE plane and on to the aircraft’s staircase, the warm air hits Tamino Amir squarely in the face. It’s a familiar sign that he’s just arrived back in Om El Donya (the Arabic nickname for Egypt, meaning mother of the world). Blearyeyed from a long-haul flight from Belgium, he hands his burgundy Belgian passport to the immigration officer. It’s met with silence, and then something strange happens.

Immigration officer: “Ana araa laqabak hu fuad. Hal antum eayilat Muharram Fouad?”

Tamino: “Sorry, I don’t speak Arabic.”

Immigration officer: “Are you related to Muharram Fouad?”

Tamino: “Yeah, he was my grandfather.”

Cue frantic excitement as several security guards rush to the desk and surround the singer, desperate for a photo opportunity with the grandson of the late Muharram Fouad, a titan of Egyptian musical cinema’s golden age of the 1960s. Tamino’s creased with laughter as he tells the story from his apartment in Antwerp, but you get the impression that it’s not one-off.

“Even now if we go to Egypt and people know that I’m the grandson of Muharram Fouad they’re like, ‘Oh, I know all the names of his wives! Then they start naming them all [including] my Grandma.’”

How many wives did he have?

“Six in total, not at the same time of course, but they only had one kid which seems like a miracle. Yeah, one kid: my father.”

Though the musician’s memories of his grandfather are hazy, he had a direct influence on his now burgeoning musical career. As a teenager, Tamino even discovered his antique resonator guitar in the attic of the family home in Cairo. “The first time I sang through a microphone was at my grandfather’s studio. He had one in a house in 6th of October city [so-named after the 1972 Arab-Israeli war].”

With so much attention focussed on his grandfather’s legacy, you have to wonder whether the shadow ever looms too large on Tamino’s own career. It’s something he’s given thought – and fraught – to.

“I was really scared that maybe the people who would come to my show in Egypt [Tamino’s first there in 2019], would come mainly because I was the grandson of Muharram Fouad. But it wasn’t the case. Usually they would just say, ‘Oh and by the way, my grandma is such a huge fan of your grandfather’. But they came because they liked my music. It was really cool.”

Today, Tamino is in good form; chatty and smiling ear-to-ear. He’s just returned from holiday in Italy (a trip to Monopoli in Puglia) as well as spending time hanging out and working in New York’s Williamsburg and Lower East Side Manhattan. But with a new record and a US and European tour around the corner, things are about to get very busy for the 25-year-old.

Born to a Belgian mother and Lebanese-Egyptian father, Tamino lived in Cairo until he was three when his parents split up. It led to a move to Belgium with his brother and mum and has been home ever since. Not that he gave up his roots for Europe. “We’ve visited Egypt many times,” he explains. “I also visited Lebanon once on my own to spend time with my cousin – she also makes music and is super cool.” The cousin he’s referring to is the fledgling singer Tamara Qaddoumi. “She showed me around Beirut and in the mountains, too. She actually brought me to a Syrian oud teacher there and we had a sort of Arabic singing lesson. He sold me an oud to start practicing on.”

He might not speak the language, but Amir is well-versed in Arabic music. “There’s this one Fairuz album in particular – it’s actually a religious album,” he says, referring to Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs, a choral album of 10 hymns recorded by the Lebanese legend in a number of Beirut churches between 1962 and 1965. “She’s Christian and it’s such a beautiful record.”

“Even now if we go to Egypt and people know that I’m the grandson of Muharram Fouad they’re like, ‘Oh, I know all the names of his wives!’”

Amir’s ventures into the Arabic music landscape, as well as his heritage, have undoubtedly impacted the sound of his own music. This, and a new album, are the reason behind today’s Zoom call, and Amir is in poetic mood.

“If you take the metaphor of a storm,” he starts, “well the storm has passed and we don’t really know what happened during it. We just see the aftermath. Dust particles are in the air and maybe some scratches on the face or whatever. That’s the sort of image I have when I listen to the record,” he’s describing his sophomore album, Sahar, the follow-up to 2018’s Amir recorded with the Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra (many of whom are Iraqi and Syrian refugees). “Sahar means just before dawn, it conjures up this in-between realm. Everybody has had those times where they wake up before everybody else does. It’s not night, but it’s not day either. It’s kind of…limbo.”

The 10-track album is pared down, mid-tempo and reflective baroque rock with Arab-inspired melisma. Unlike his debut, it doesn’t include an accompanying orchestra, placing the focus squarely on his voice; a quavering falsetto that lends itself perfectly to the darker, introspective Arab-gothic moments such as standout track “A Drop of Blood”. The song is a hypnotic, crescendo-building chant which sees Tamino’s voice rise and drop, weaving around the pluck, vibration then strum of a classical Arabic oud (which he plays). It will sit comfortably alongside fan-favourites like “Habibi”.

“I understand for some people that it’s confusing, because I write these two types of songs,” he says. “Almost like these very typical, Classic Western songs or whatever. And then there are these songs inspired by Arabic music, too. To me, they can perfectly coexist on one album, but some people, I think, would rather be like, ‘choose one!’ I can’t. They come as they come.”

Sahar is altogether a quieter, more minimal record than its predecessor, “We really embraced the subtle elements this time around and we didn’t want to emphasise too much on the bigger things”. The guitar-strummed “Cinnamon” sounds like a lullaby. Dreamy. Sultry. Sunkissed. “Sunflower” is a duet with Angèle, arguably French pop’s biggest star, and sees the artist venture more into electronica, it opens momentarily like a Massive Attack track, with a swelling tone and the murmur of heavenly voices, before settling into a piano-led folk-rock song. Meanwhile, “You Don’t Own Me” is equally rousing and mystical, as it lightly teases a more experimental sound. The intro sounds like Revolver-era Beatles as he pairs monstrously distorted voice effects before dissolving into a more traditional torch song. It’s refreshing to hear Tamino take small strides in building on his sound world, sometimes though, there is a sense he could go further into the avant-garde if he allowed himself to. No doubt these are songs that will cause minor tremors when performed live.

It’s hard to know how Tamino’s new album will be received, but as he prepares to set off on tour, one thing is clear: authenticity is central to what he does, especially when it concerns bringing together different musical traditions. “I think if I tried to [force it] then it becomes gimmicky and then we end up in Aladdin territory” he says laughing.

Getting hybrid Arab-inspired Anglo-pop to work is a terrifically hard undertaking, especially if you want to avoid falling into cliché or musical orientalism. But with loyal audiences already clamouring to see him in both the Arab countries and Europe, Tamino is blissfully aware that he just needs to keep doing exactly what feels right to him. “If it’s there, I’ll embrace it, you know, and I’ll just let it be. But equally I won’t force it because, really, I just can’t.”

#tamino #tamino amir #gq middle east #article #interview #english #2022 #with photoshoot #original text #read via link

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themadscene · 2 years

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Jasmine: Poem on Sandpaper

Ronny Someck (translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg)

Fairuz raises her lips to the sky so that it will rain jasmine on those who've met only once unaware they're in love. At noon I am listening to her in Muhammad's Fiat on Ibn Gabirol Street. A Lebanese singer singing in an Italian car owned by an Arab poet from Baqa al-Gharbiyye on a street named for a Hebrew poet who lived in Spain. And jasmine? If it falls from the sky at the End of Days it will be for a moment a green signal at the next intersection.

#ronny someck

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tortiefrancis · 25 days

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Just noticed your new icon and it looks lovely, who's it of?

Thank you! It's Fairuz, she's a very famous lebanese singer and I love her music so much! I've been listening to her a lot as a way of reconnecting with my lebanese heritage

If you want to listen to her music I highly recommend Bint El Shalabiya, Wahdon and Kifak Inta, they're my absolute favorites so far

#sam.asks #regalbastard #also i think shes beautiful

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danepopfrippery · 2 months

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Christian Lebanese singer Fairuz is famous for this song Flower of Cities ( زهرة المدائن ) about the 6 days war and constant displacement of the palestinian people by israel. This vid is from 1967 and has english lyrics

#fairuz #flower of cities #lebanon #6 days war #gaza #free gaza #palestine #free palestine

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fairuzstuff · 3 years

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Fairuz in her most recent apparition with Reema

(C) Reema Rahbany

#Fairuz #Fayrouz #Feiruz #Fairouz #ziad rahbani #Lebanon #Beirut #Arabs #Diva #Queer #singers #Legendary women #pride month #Lebanese #Elie saab #Dalida

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maritasdump · 3 years

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About the ask game: 5 give us a lebanese song rec please and 7 cause words are nice

Also, i love the disclaimer on your bio about really being from lebanon? I imagine it's gotta be hard to find people form your own country when you're from a smaller is-not-america country

5. favourite song in your native language?

I don't really listen to Lebanese modern songs because they're shitty af. So stan the oldies and stan every single Fairuz song. Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is considered by many as one of the leading vocalists and most famous singers in the history of the Arab world. So yeah id have ONE favorite song but if y'all wanna listen here's a traditional Lebanese folk song for y'all

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

I'm gonna throw in 3 random words in Lebanese slang for y'all

Hayawen, jahesh, hmar✨

About my bio:

Qjjsssjsshsjss i first put the Lebanese flag because yes, it IS SO HARD to find other Lebanese people in this hell site, especially since Lebanon is homophobic/racist/sexist/misogynist/corrupted-

And then someone thought I was a lesbian because of the Lebanese flag, because there's a running joke about Labanese being lesbians because of the word play Lesbianese. So I had to add a disclaimer KSNSJZBSBSBSZ

"Hi I'm Not From The US" Ask Set

#marita asks #thegreenbisamurai #lebanese slang part 858549392

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rudyscuriocabinet · 3 years

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Fairuz - El Massih Kaam

Fairuz – El Massih Kaam

To our Eastern Orthodox friends, we wish you a blessed Pascha. Christ is Risen! To celebrate the day, we have the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz singing the paschal greeting in Greek and Arabic.

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#Arabic Music #Choral Music #Easter #Eastern Orthodoxy #Fairuz #Lebanon #Liturgical Chant #Music #Youtube

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