First, they stole my people's land. Then they stole my people's hummos. Later, they stole my people's circle dance (debkeh). And now they wanna steal my people's bird...Alon said he and several others have suggested to the Environment Ministry that a national bird and flower be chosen as part of Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations in 2008. After some hesitation, Alon showed his cards: He too supports the bulbul.
But that's ok - I'm actually not really all that mad. After all, how could I be pissed off at Israelis for expropriating my people's culture when we've got Hamas doing a great job outlawing it all together?
The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries and destroyed because of sexually explicit language...Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place. I guess the old sarcastic falahy saying holds true - Ya tukho, ya iksir moukho... either way we're f*cked."The Little Bird," a tale in a chapter titled "Sexual awakening and courtship," was one of the reasons the book was banned because it mentions genitals. In their notes, the authors explain that the bird in the story is a symbol of femininity adding that the use of sexual subjects in Palestinian folklore is a principal source of humor.
West Bank novelist Zakariya Mohammed said he feared Hamas' decision to ban "Speak Bird, Speak Again," a collection of 45 folk tales, was only the beginning and urged intellectuals to take action. "If we don't stand up to the Islamists now, they won't stop confiscating books, songs and folklore," he said.
26 comments:
Hey kabobfest!!
It's very good that you have written about this issue!
I have just written a long post about it!
It made me so angry! I almost feel that we have become Iran!
I don’t want Palestine to become Iran!
I would be very happy if you'll read my opinion about the folktale book incident.
Asad al nimr,
Ramallah.
http://almanarasquare.blogspot.com/
Israel now is stealing every thing, even arabic words, now we must stop thim, or at least exposes these crimes.
I think on of the most proper way is recording our folklore, in many languages, so it will be an evedance in the next years when people start to forget it, they started allready.
Facing Israelian prevention and confusion of doing that is much easier than internal confusing, so there must be a law in Palestine that encourages Palestinian writers to write down our every thing, with the minimum observation from the government.
Thank god that Hamas can just pull the book from school libraries, it is in very defferant libraries like general ones, and universities libraries, we still have it.
Ya 3ayb a-shoom William! La aysh al fadeeha? A3oozibillah!
Nice package though.
ha, how that article has anything to do with a stolen bird is beyond me.. I'd wager hamas is a more serious threat than Israel coming up with a national bird
Woman, I told not to speak without a permission, especially with other men...
Women and men are not equal.Because they both have different responsibilities.But that dosent mean that men should take advantage of their extra freedom and oppress women.Women dont rule but they should be at least entitled to have a say in something.
tashakur
I'm curious what Nadeem googled to get that picture of the body? "man grabbing unit"
Why did the khalili close his bathroom window?
Min khof hamamta et tier!
Yin3an abu shiklek waty ya ibn ashlikeh!
Hey Khalili:
Qus imak ya shluk.
Ahsenlek itrou7 neek teez abouk...
Kus ukhtek malan pudding.
Qus ukti malan pudding? Ya mutherbitch! Teez imak malan girbels, ism-ha Um-Richard Gier.
Dier balak, ana ibm 'am Nidalio.
Inta ibn 3am Nidalio? Woah. Mitasif ya 3ars. Khulus, ana manyek mitlek.
This blog is very similar to Palestinian culture : censorship of opposing views.
Do you guys kill homos too?
Anon 2:04pm:
Neek halak, u dork.
Khalili:
Watch thimak, Nidalio ba kasirha.
Yaz,
sallem 3la Nidalio...
mish fahem mn wein betjebo ara2kom ento, radicals aqsa yameen o aqsa yasar...
word is bond pal.mooda, i have no clue what your last sentence says.
bes ba salim 3'nidalio for you.
Ahla wsahla abu shreek....;)
b7ke inte o nidalio kteer ara2kom b3eedeh 3n ba3ad,
kol wa7ad befakker btareeqa me5telfeh.
b3den lesh ana clown???
Wal, kayen fi tousheh and I missed it? Bas 3anjad, lazem ma yiseer hal 7aki on this blog. Khaleena 7abayeb. Plus, there are plenty of people on this site who might have found your comments offensive. Eljamee3 bissalim 3alay and I don't even know you guys :) Bas Allah ysallimkom kullkom. And let's keep a clean discussion. Salamaat.
Nidalio,
walak enta bte3raf 7ada gheri b falasteen, kont troo7 end ebn 3ammak 3al parking, o ana aje 3endak o nroo7 neshrab qahweh...
Yaz shaklo eben 3ammak, ana ma dakhalet fel 6oosheh, bs fe post tanyeh "Obama's Groveling to AIPAC Insufficient" kan ye7ke 3anne clown, fa s2alto lesh, o 7aketlo ysallem 3lek.
see you when come back to ramallah,
salamat
Tab walak qoul min essobo7 ennak Hamoudeh! Sho akhbarak man? Ana mosh 3aref min Yaz, bas ahla o sahla biljamee3. In Pali, we're all cousins :)
pal.mooda. I was only joking re: you're a clown. I actually thought you were someone else.
mit3asif.
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