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S2 - E2 - In My City - Fee madinatee - في مدينتي

S2 - E2 - In My City - Fee madinatee - في مدينتي

Update: 2022-08-22
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In this episode, you’ll learn to talk more about your city, or the city you are visiting and learn how to describe a few places in your "medina".


You will be able to use some direction prepositions while talking about various "amakin" 




In this last part I will share a few lines from a beautiful piece of Nizar Qabbani’s great poem “This is my Love .. This is my City.



هــَـــذهِ هــِــى حــَــبــيـــبـــتـــى .. هــَـــذهِ هــِــى مـَــــديـــنــــتـــــى .. 


This is My Love .. This is My City ..


أبــْـــحــَــــثُ عــَــن مــَـــديــــنـــةٍ 


I look for a city


نــَـــكــْـــتــُـــبُ مــَــا شــِــئــْــنـــَـــا عــلــى جــُــدْرَانــَـــهـــَـــــا 


That we write whatever we want on its walls


مــَــديــنــةٌ تــُـــحــَـــرِّضُ الــزِّلــزالَ فــى دَاخــِـــلــِــنـــَــــا 


A city that stirs the earthquake inside us


تــُــدهــِـــشــُــنــا .. تــَــخــُــضــُّــنـــا .. تــُـــقــْــلــِــقـــُـــنـــَــــا 


Surprises us .. frightens us .. worries us


مــَـــديــنـــةٌ لا تــَـــقــْـــمــَـــعُ الــحــُـــبَّ .. و لا الــشــِّــعــْـــرَ 


A city that does not suppress love or poetry


و لا تــَـــقــْـــمــَــعـــَـــنـــَـــا 


 And suppress us not


أبــْـــحــَــــثُ عــَــن شـــَـــوَارِعَ ضــَــيـــَّـــقــَـــةً تــَـــبـــْــلــَـــعـــُـــنـــا 


I search for narrow streets that swallow us


عــن مــَــرْكــِــبٍ مــُــغــَـــامــِـــرٍ 


(I search) for an adventurous boat


يــَـــأخــُـــذنـــَــــا لــَـــيـــْــــلاً .. و لا يــُـــرْجــِـــعــُـــنـــَــــا 


That takes us at night and never gets us back


 أخــْـــتـــَـــارُ مــَــنــْــــفـــَـــاى كــَــمــَـــا يــُــعــْـــجــِــبــُــنــِـــى 


I choose my exile as I like


و أصــْـــنــَـــعُ الــزَمــَـــانَ و الــمــَــكــَــانَ 


And create the time and place


أخــْــتــَـــارُ دَوْمــَـــاً جــَـــانــِـــبَ الــقــَـــصـــِــيـــدة 


Always choose the side of the poem


و جـــَـــانــِـــبَ الإنـــْــــســـَــــان 


And the side of man


أبــْــحــَـــثُ عـــن زاويــةٍ صــَــغــيــرة فــى مــَــطــْـــعـــَـــم 


I look for a small angle in a restaurant


تــُـــصـــْـــغــِـــى إلــى حــِــوَارِنــَــا 


That listens to our conversation





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S2 - E2 - In My City - Fee madinatee - في مدينتي

S2 - E2 - In My City - Fee madinatee - في مدينتي

A bit of Arabic