Thank you Ms. Carla Chamoun for your beautiful message to all those who left Lebanon after the surrealistic Beirut port explosions, including many of your own friend.
You said in Arabic before singing that Dalida’s famous Helwa ya baladi [My country is beautiful] song that the latter is “like your wish/prayer to them them. OK, it may sound like a bribery too, but basically, with this song you are saying the following: Please remember that our country is beautiful only with its people. Without its people, what would it be? Please either do not leave massively or if you left already, after working and building your future wherever you went, please think of coming back“.
Your voice is a delight to Bambi’s ears. Your words resonate with her. Indeed, even after over three decades and roots abroad, Lebanon cannot be taken out of her heart and mind (even if at times, we have like a feeling of love/hate relationship with the entire Middle East and its endless issues).
Ms. Chamoun is right. The tiny Mediterranean Lebanon is indeed beautiful with its people. Bambi misses its people’s hospitality, joie de vivre (perhaps now more challenging), and kindness. She misses especially her loved ones there. She sends them her love through this post.
The beautiful aspects of our roots will always stay with us. These beautiful aspects have been planted into our hearts by our creator, and it is a beautiful thing to cherish them. Beautiful song, helwa ya baladi.
This moving message I feel it deep inside me as an Algerian who left his country more than 30 years ago with little hope of ever returning home.During my career in the United Nations I visited Lebanon many times and keep fond memories of unique moments of hospitality ,friendship and generosity. Unfortunately many of my friends left Lebanon year after year to build new horizons and it saddens me deeply because such friends are brilliant ones that Lebanon badly needs.Lebanon a lovely country with its unique Mediterranean character nested between the mountain and the sea. Thank you Madam for this lovely message and my greatest wish is to come and listen to your beautiful songs as I did with the legendary Fairuz in Baalbeck many years ago.Vive le Liban eternel.
Ohh how moving. It is Bambi who thanks you Si (Ahmed) for your BEAUTIFUL comment. You left Algeria over 30 years ago and she left Lebanon over 34 years ago. Almost the same time away of two beautiful Arab countries. It is her wish to one day visit your great birth country and it is her dream that you will visit the Land of the Cedars again one day for another concert. Vive la musique. Vive la beauté et l’hospitalité dans le monde. Merci du fond du coeur! Vive l’Algérie et vive votre pays d’adoption aussi. You take good care. Welcome on this blog. Bambi is honoured and her readers will be touched too by your kind words. Please re-visit again : ).