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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
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