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| Artwork by Tarek Chemaly |
I will be the firs to admit I am not a conoisseur in
Zajal - the slang Arabic Lebanese poetry - but then again, some things trenscend genres and make it straight into the Lebanese collective memory. I think specifically of this verse attributed to Zein Cheabi Abou Ali:
روحي
ورحك يا روحي روحين بروح ان راحت روحك يا روحي روحي بتروح
Roughly translated (and sadly it takes out all the charm):
My soul and your soul, oh my soul, are two souls in one soul, if your soul goes, my soul goes as well!
