Ayman Kayssi
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Ayman Kayssi
@akayssi
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Tech CoFounder | أيمن القيسي | opinions expressed are personal & don’t reflect position of employer or others
Lebanon Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Ahmad Kaabour’s passing will naturally bring back songs like Ounadikom and Ya Rayeh Sob Bladi. His voice spoke for Palestinians and for Southern Lebanese under Israeli occupation.
Ounadikom itself carries an important history. It began as a 1966 poem by Palestinian poet and Knesset member Tawfiq Zayyad. Kaabour set it to music in 1975, at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. He first performed it, it is said, in a Beirut field hospital for wounded Lebanese and Palestinian fighters. The song would later become a kind of soundtrack for the First Intifada in the 1980s.
But what I will remember most is another side of his work.
In the 1990s, through his music for PM Rafic Hariri’s nascent Future TV, he helped shape a different moment. Laayounak, which I have shared below, and the long, iconic opening theme of Halawanji Ya Ismail, featuring a young @AbbasChahinemm and @AidaaaTheBest, stand out. The latter was a lighthearted Ramadan television series he also wrote, about a young sweets-maker dreaming of becoming more.
Through this work, he helped soundtrack a time when Lebanon, despite many internal and external obstacles, was trying to imagine a new era. It was an effort to bring the country back together after the civil war, even if that effort was imperfect and contested.
At the time, there was a sense of optimism, however fragile. The country seemed able to move toward some form of stability. The challenges were no fewer than today, but the feeling was different. There was hope, even under dual occupation and amid political repression. I believe that this accumulation of optimism in the 1990s helped lead to Lebanon’s attempt to reassert itself by the mid-2000s.
Perhaps that is simply because I experienced it as a child. This is only a personal reflection. It is my way of remembering an artist and the moments in which I encountered his work. For me, the music and cultural contributions Kaabour was a part of captured a belief that Lebanon could become more than what it had endured. That it could be, in a word, normal.
I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times, including during the 2016 Beirut Madinati municipal campaign, when he stood as a candidate to represent the city he loved. The campaign came close to breaking through against the full weight of the traditional political class, including candidates backed by PM Saad Hariri, but ultimately fell short.
Ahmad Kaabour was many things: a writer, a musician, an actor, and a concerned citizen who at one point ran for office to represent his beloved city Beirut. He had his political views, which he held firmly, and which you could disagree with, but no matter what, he carried himself with humility, conviction, and decency. A true gentleman.
A voice for the struggles of Palestinians and the South, no doubt, but also a composer of hope for the Lebanon we believed could exist.
Rest in peace, Abo Saad.
youtu.be/DnA-HvuGPS4
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٢% (من ١٤٠ استجابة) يثقون بالقضاء اللبناني ومؤسساته كليا.
١٩% يثقون به بعض البشيء.
و٧٩% لا يثقون بالقضاء ومؤسساته أبدا.
كارثة.
صدقا لما حطّيت هالسؤال، تخايلت نسبة بين ١٥ و ٢٠% تكون ثقة كاملة، علما إنو كنت حاسس حالي متشائم.
طلعت النسبة ٢%.
فعلا كارثة.
#جمهورية_العبث_المستدام
Hani Hassan@hanihassan26
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