[lbo-talk] Kathem Al Saher, "My Country"

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 05:12:12 PDT 2007


Listen to Kathem Al Saher's "My Country" / يا وطني at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNoHdFPY5I>, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-X0taYN5M>, or <http://www.alsaherfans.com/Audios/collection1/ya_watany.mp3>.

If you like the singer, look up his name كاظم الساهر or various transliterations of his name (Kazem, Kadim, Saher, Sahir, etc.) at YouTube, and you'll find hundreds of videos.

The song is used as the theme song in My Country, My Country (whose official Web site is at <http://www.mycountrymycountry.com/>), a documentary by Laura Poitras, which follows Dr. Riyadh, a Sunni medical doctor turned political candidate, through the first demonstration elections in Iraq held by the occupation authorities, which set the country on the course of descent into sectarianism.

<http://www.mycountrymycountry.com/press/releases/mycountrymycountry.presskit.pdf> "Oh My Country" by Kadhum Al Sahir

Oh my country, may you have a happy morning. Reunite everyone; heal your wounds. I yearn to see you smile some day, When will sadness set you free?

Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, Take them all under your wings. You are their father; you are their mother, Stay firm, no matter how your winds gust.

Jesus and Prophet Muhammad said, Their unity is your weapon. Love, peace, intellect and construction, May God in the heavens bless your success, my country.

Oh my beloved Iraq; oh Iraq, Oh my beloved, oh my beloved, oh my beloved Iraq. -- Yoshie



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