{"id":9183,"date":"2019-01-23T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/23\/flower-of-cities-an-arabic-song-about-returning-to-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2019-01-23T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:31:48","slug":"flower-of-cities-an-arabic-song-about-returning-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/23\/flower-of-cities-an-arabic-song-about-returning-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower of Cities: An Arabic Song About Returning to Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYKnQ9814T8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Sung by the Lebanese artist, Fairuz, one of the most influential singers in the Arab Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lYKnQ9814T8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this song<\/a> was written in 1968, following Israel&#8217;s conquest of the eastern side of Jerusalem in the Six Day War. <a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/node\/77817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Arabic lyrics<\/a>, provided in English on screen and below, describe the desire and prayer of Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians to return to the holy city of Jerusalem, the third holiest city in Islam.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Flower of Cities<\/h2>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<p class=\"ll-0-1\">It is for you O city of the prayer that I pray<br \/>\nIt is for you O splendid home, O flower of the cities<br \/>\nO Jerusalem O Jerusalem O Jerusalem O city of the prayer<br \/>\nOur eyes are set out to you everyday<br \/>\nThey walk through the porticos of the temples<br \/>\nEmbrace of the old churches<br \/>\nAnd take the sadness away from the mosques<br \/>\nO night of Al asra O path of those who left for the sky<br \/>\nOur eyes are set out to you everyday and I pray<\/p>\n<p class=\"ll-0-9\">The child is in the cave and his mother is Myriam two faces crying<br \/>\nFor those who roamed<br \/>\nFor the children without a house<br \/>\nFor those who resisted and were martyred at the gates<br \/>\nAnd the peace was martyred in the homeland of the peace<br \/>\nAnd the law tumbled at the gates of the city<br \/>\nWhen Jerusalem city fell<br \/>\nLove left and in the heart of the world the war was settled<br \/>\nThe child is in the cave and his mother is Myriam two faces crying<br \/>\nand I pray<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"emptyline\">The glaring anger is arriving and I am sure of it<br \/>\nThe bright anger is arriving, I will command the grief<br \/>\nFrom everywhere, it will arrive riding the steeds of fear,<br \/>\nAs if the overwhelming face of God it will arrive<br \/>\nThe gates of our city will not be locked anymore so I am going to pray<br \/>\nI will knock the gates and I will liberate them<br \/>\nMy face will be cleaned by the holy water of the Jordan river<br \/>\nAnd the effects of the barbarism of the past will be erased O Jordan River<br \/>\nThe glaring anger is arriving riding the steeds of the fear<br \/>\nAnd will defeat whom is in power<br \/>\nThis is our home and Jerusalem belongs to us<br \/>\nAnd in our hands we will celebrate the splendor of Jerusalem<br \/>\nby our hands the peace will return to Jerusalem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sung by the Lebanese artist, Fairuz, one of the most influential singers in the Arab Song, this song was written in 1968, following Israel&#8217;s conquest of the eastern side of Jerusalem in the Six Day War. The Arabic lyrics, provided in English on screen and below, describe the desire and prayer of Muslims, Arabs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2403],"tags":[2408,2410,2411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9184\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}