{"id":17047,"date":"2022-01-26T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:52:40","slug":"ms-majida-el-roumy-oum-thada-get-up-and-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/ms-majida-el-roumy-oum-thada-get-up-and-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Majida El Roumy: &#8220;Oum Thada&#8221; [Get up and challenge]!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LebanonDrawing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17048\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What a moving song. How powerful. How true. Thank you Ms. Majida El Roumy (who, by the way, has been Bambi&#8217;s preferred singer when she was growing up in Lebanon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song seems to be old (yes, older than the 2019&#8217;s revolt as it was posted on<em> YouTube<\/em> in 2014). Despite this, it is the second time in a couple of two following days that Bambi is hearing it on the internet radio. What a beautiful discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, you can find the song in Arabic followed by the lyrics in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi sends her heart to the people of her birth country!<\/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=\"Majida El Roumi - Oum Thadda \/ \u0645\u0627\u062c\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0645\u064a - \u0642\u0648\u0645 \u0625\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0649\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlRmt9RyR00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Get up and Challenge<\/em><\/strong> (taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\">https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cGet up and challenge injustice;\nrevolt,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Smash the silence within you!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O people who have been driven out\nin their own land,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You had enough of coercion and\nsorrow!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How could you stay silent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>While tears and blood have\nflooded your life?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your land is calling you:\nrevolution!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where are you? It is calling you!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Get up and carry the tears of\nyour country<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stand at the gates of the rulers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hand the announcement of your\nmartyrdom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To the hands of peace<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How could you stay silent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your country has become the exile\nof all dreams?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Freedom and all your festivals\nhave worn the black<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you don&#8217;t bring back the sun\nwith your own hands<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The darkness will definitely\nerase you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Every night, I hear the voices of\nhomeless children<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They have become the fires of\nslavery in the nights of tyrants<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where is conscience of humanity?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where is Justice?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where is religion?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stop singing freedom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>While all the people are\nimprisoned!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Only revolution, O my country,\nwill lead to freedom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where are you? It is calling you!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/heart-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17053\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/heart-16.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/heart-16-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 85vw, 128px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a moving song. How powerful. How true. Thank you Ms. Majida El Roumy (who, by the way, has been Bambi&#8217;s preferred singer when she was growing up in Lebanon). This song seems to be [&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\/17047"}],"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=17047"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17057,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047\/revisions\/17057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}