{"id":26076,"date":"2023-07-06T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=26076"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:10:26","slug":"pbs-news-hours-nine-minute-documentary-and-mr-ghassan-rahbanis-new-song-about-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/pbs-news-hours-nine-minute-documentary-and-mr-ghassan-rahbanis-new-song-about-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS News Hour&#8217;s nine-minute documentary and Mr. Ghassan Rahbani&#8217;s new song about Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26077\" width=\"577\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1536x432.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-2048x576.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1200x337.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 85vw, 577px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Today, Bambi came across a highly informative <em>PBS New Hour<\/em> brief documentary almost at the same time as Mr. Ghassan Rahbani&#8217;s powerful Lebanese-Arabic new song,  entitled &#8220;<em>Chou Bi&#8217;i Men Lebnan<\/em>&#8221; [or &#8220;<em>What is left of Lebanon<\/em>&#8220;], which is about corruption in his county and its resulting fiasco. This post is simply meant to share both with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to <em>PBS News Hour<\/em> for shedding light on how &#8220;<em>Lebanon struggles to emerge from financial crisis and government corruption<\/em>&#8220;. As for you Mr. Rahbani, it is moving to hear you singing for the &#8220;<em>humiliated<\/em>&#8221; people, to use your own words. Thanks and bravo to you, the talented musicians, the children, and to all professionals who made the <em>YouTube<\/em> video-clip possible, including but not limited to the following: Mr. Jad Rahbani (lyrics, Music &amp; Arrangemen), Ms. Ranya Ghosn El Hage (Direction), Mr. Marwan Ziadeh (Cinematography), and Diamony Digital Distribution @WataryProduction (Production). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To share the song&#8217;s simple yet deep lyrics with you, Bambi translated them into English (following the embedded videos). As usual, she is grateful for the assistance of her friend, the tireless Mr. <em>Google Translate<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes to the people of Lebanon \u2764\ufe0f!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lebanon struggles to emerge from financial crisis and government corruption\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GW-UFOrrF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ghassan Rahbani - Chou Bi&#039;i Men Lebnan [Official Video] (2023) \/ \u063a\u0633\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0628\u0627\u0646\u064a - \u0634\u0648 \u0628\u0642\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fMTLtuFO17o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;What is left of Lebanon after you took it?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left about Lebanon? Words you did not say yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">There was some misery and the promise of tragedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left, what is left for the rest, I hope you will leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left of Lebanon, I wish you would forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">And you sleep for two eras, so we can forget what you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Because in this country there are people, not herds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Every time an hour ticks, they walk away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What did you do in Lebanon, I hope you remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Because my little ones won&#8217;t forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">And the humiliated people are the ones preserving Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I wish you would leave. Stop the killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left of this land after you plundered it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We even dream of a future that you took out of our mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left of Lebanon, what is left, nothing worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You fight for it until you divide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left of Lebanon after you ate it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You stole the light from the sky and the air you breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Leaders on behalf of the sects (or religions), you made your country a farce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What you stole from Lebanon, it\u2019s time for its return&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/heart-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26081\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/heart-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/heart-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 85vw, 208px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Bambi came across a highly informative PBS New Hour brief documentary almost at the same time as Mr. Ghassan Rahbani&#8217;s powerful Lebanese-Arabic new song, entitled &#8220;Chou Bi&#8217;i Men Lebnan&#8221; [or &#8220;What is left of [&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\/26076"}],"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=26076"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26087,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076\/revisions\/26087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}