{"id":9954,"date":"2018-10-17T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/17\/on-this-earth-a-musical-rendition-of-mahmoud-darwishs-poem"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:50:22","slug":"on-this-earth-a-musical-rendition-of-mahmoud-darwishs-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/17\/on-this-earth-a-musical-rendition-of-mahmoud-darwishs-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Earth: A Musical Rendition of a Mahmoud Darwish Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chfJ7iCNWCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/chfJ7iCNWCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This video<\/a> presents Palestinian singer, Amal Murkus, singing a musical rendition of &#8220;On This Earth,&#8221; a famous poem written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmouddarwish.com\/english\/introduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahmoud Darwish,<\/a>\u00a0regarded\u00a0as the national poet of the Palestinian people. A romantic ode to the land of Palestine, a translation of the Arabic lyrics is provided below. The video features a slideshow of paintings by Palestinian artist, Ismail Shammout.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>On This Earth<\/h2>\n<p>We have on this earth what makes life worth living<br \/>\nthe aroma of bread at dawn<br \/>\na woman\u2019s opinion of men<br \/>\nthe works of Aeschylus<br \/>\nthe beginnings of love<br \/>\ngrass on a stone<br \/>\nmothers who live on a flute\u2019s sigh<br \/>\nand the invaders\u2019 fear of memories<\/p>\n<p>We have on this earth what makes life worth living<br \/>\nthe waning days of dawn<br \/>\na woman leaving forty in full blossom<br \/>\nthe hour of sunlight in prison<br \/>\na cloud resembling a pack of creatures<br \/>\nthe applause of a people for those who face their end with a smile<br \/>\nand the tyrants\u2019 fear of songs<\/p>\n<p>We have on this earth what makes life worth living<br \/>\non this earth, the lady of earth<br \/>\nthe mother of all beginnings<br \/>\nthe mother of all endings<br \/>\nshe was called Palestine<br \/>\nshe came to be called Palestine<br \/>\no lady, because you are my lady<br \/>\nI am worthy of life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video presents Palestinian singer, Amal Murkus, singing a musical rendition of &#8220;On This Earth,&#8221; a famous poem written by Mahmoud Darwish,\u00a0regarded\u00a0as the national poet of the Palestinian people. A romantic ode to the land of Palestine, a translation of the Arabic lyrics is provided below. The video features a slideshow of paintings by Palestinian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/"}],"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=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/12805\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}