Here is a video that all freedom loving people will enjoy, I know I did:
And, I’ve enjoyed watching this one even more since the fall of the regime:
The anger I felt at the Obama administration’s shifty response to Egyptian demands for freedom was indescribable, in retrospect though, the reactions from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel plus the buffoonish statements from Mubarak and Sulieman on Thursday only made this victory of the Egyptian people all the sweeter. They reclaimed their freedom despite what appeared to be insurmountable odds.
Forgive me if I sound choppy right now but I am still tired from the last two and a half weeks and hungover from feelings that I’ve never felt before. These last 18 days have helped to redefine who I am as an Arab-American, the lens through which I see myself and the lens through which I am aware that people are seeing us, and the possibility of what can be. Most Arabs I know are still at a loss for words but things will never be the same, we are proud, incredibly proud and optimistic Arabs. Ben Ali fled Tunisia on January 15th, 27 days later Mubarak’s 30 year grip on power came to an end. 27 days and I feel for the first time that I can say with pride and certainty that Arabs can do anything.
- Record!
- I am an Arab
- And my identity card is number fifty thousand
- I have eight children
- And the ninth is coming after a summer
- Will you be angry?
- Record!
- I am an Arab
- Employed with fellow workers at a quarry
- I have eight children
- I get them bread
- Garments and books
- from the rocks..
- I do not supplicate charity at your doors
- Nor do I belittle myself at the footsteps of your chamber
- So will you be angry?
- Record!
- I am an Arab
- I have a name without a title
- Patient in a country
- Where people are enraged
- My roots
- Were entrenched before the birth of time
- And before the opening of the eras
- Before the pines, and the olive trees
- And before the grass grew
- My father.. descends from the family of the plow
- Not from a privileged class
- And my grandfather..was a farmer
- Neither well-bred, nor well-born!
- Teaches me the pride of the sun
- Before teaching me how to read
- And my house is like a watchman’s hut
- Made of branches and cane
- Are you satisfied with my status?
- I have a name without a title!
- Record!
- I am an Arab
- You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
- And the land which I cultivated
- Along with my children
- And you left nothing for us
- Except for these rocks..
- So will the State take them
- As it has been said?!
- Therefore!
- Record on the top of the first page:
- I do not hate people
- Nor do I encroach
- But if I become hungry
- The usurper’s flesh will be my food
- Beware..
- Beware..
- Of my hunger
- And my anger!
