{"id":1028,"date":"2019-11-05T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2019-11-05T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:19:07","slug":"music-for-peace-gibran-khalil-gibran-on-the-art-of-music-1905-dj-mahdi-on-the-art-of-protest-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/music-for-peace-gibran-khalil-gibran-on-the-art-of-music-1905-dj-mahdi-on-the-art-of-protest-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for peace: Gibran Khalil Gibran on the art of music (1905) &#038; DJ Mahdi on the art of protest (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"362\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ-1024x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1033\" data-link=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?attachment_id=1033\" class=\"wp-image-1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ-1024x362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ-1200x425.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MusicDJ.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Gibran Khalil Gibran (1905), &#8220;music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to DJ Mahdi (2019), &#8221; music is what keeps the revolt peaceful and beautiful. No fights and no sectarianism&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJ Mahdi has been rocking the Lebanese revolution with music every night in Tripoli (the second largest city of Lebanon). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music is all about having fun in peace and in the hope of more peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a whole crowd is dancing to the same beat, music unites the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon and the whole region need more music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you DJ Mahdi! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Viral &#039;protest DJ&#039; provides the beat for Lebanese crowds\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQSuyz2wM-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gibran Khalil Gibran (1905), &#8220;music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife&#8221;. According to DJ Mahdi (2019), &#8221; music is what keeps the revolt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}