1. Don’t freak out.

2. We both know this has been coming for a long time.

3. I have been staying awake at nights, wondering if I should tell you.

4. I bought the kind of crackers you like. They are in the hall cupboard.

5. Now that we have watched all the episodes of True Blood, I do not know what else to do next.

6. I have just been too afraid for too long.

7. This is the kind of thing where waiting for the time to be right would just mean waiting forever; it’s the kind of thing no one else can help you decide.

8. I came home on Thursday and found all of the chairs in the house stacked in a pile in the center of my kitchen; I don’t know how long they have been like that, but it must have been me that did it. It is the kind of thing a ghost might do, to prove to the living he is still there. I am haunting my own apartment.

9. My grandmother was still alive when I was five years old and she told me to check if the iron was hot enough yet, so I pressed my hand against it, and it was red and screaming for hours. Twenty five years later she would still sometimes apologize, in the middle of conversations, I feel so bad about making you touch the iron, she would say, as though it had just happened. I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late. But how else do you tell if something is hot but to touch it?

10. I imagine my furniture in your apartment.

11. I wonder how many likes it will get on facebook.

12. My dad always used to tell the same joke, but I can’t remember the punch line.

13. I was eight years old and it took three weeks (three eight year old weeks—- imagine) to gather everything I needed to be Batman. Rope, boomerangs, a mardi gras mask with the beads cut off. I couldn’t find a cave near my house, so I buried them all in a bundle under the ivy. For years after,

I tried to find that spot again.

The ivy grew too fast.

I searched in so many spots

it seemed impossible I had missed any.

But I never found it.

How can something be there

and then just not be there?

How do we forgive ourselves

for all the things we did not become?

14. I was never bold enough to buy bright green sheets. I wanted them, but always thought they were too brash, even with no one but me to see them. I bought a set yesterday and put them on the bed. I knew that you would like them.

14 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes - Doc Luben

Raksat Sherem - Munir Bashir

Iraqui Dabka - Munir Bashir

Zourouni - Munir Bechir

Bent El Chalabia - Munir Bechir

Talaa Min Beit Abouha - Munir Bechir

Souk Harag - Munir Bashir

Alouspour Ettair - Munir Bachir

مغرور / Maghrour - Malouma Bint Al-Midah

اذكري / Outhkouri - Malouma Bint Al-Midah

خيّالة / Khayala - Malouma Bint Al-Midah

مهما الحب / Mahma El Houb - Malouma Bint Al-Midah

قَمَرة  - أنس والأصدقاء

ما تغيبي - أنس و الأصدقاء

ع ضوّ القمر - أنس و الأصدقاء

Zaghareed: Music from the Palestinian Holy Land

09 - Henna

07 - Farewell to Bachelor Days

15 - Initiation of Ecstasy (instrumental) - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

14 - A New Love - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

11 - Groom's Bath - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

10 - Embarak (Blessed) - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

08 - Dal'onah - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

06 - Chiming Bracelets - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

05 - Miriam - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

04 - Fardah (Convoying the Bride) - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

03 - Initiation of Ecstasy - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

02 - Miriam's Father - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

01 - Tulbah (Proposition) - (فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية - زغاريد)

Sudaniyat

Saleb Fouadi - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

Saheb El Mearag - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

Nari - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

Loulou Lowa - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

Layali - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

El Sheikh Sayaroh - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

Diya Wa - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

أقيس حسنك بمن / Aquis Mahasnik Biman - Rasha (Sudaniyat)

To A..

يا حبيبي كلما هب الهوى و شدا البلبل نجوى حبه
لفني الوجد و أضناني الهوى كفراش ليس يدري ما به
صغ لقلبي يا حبيبي حلما من سنا الصبح و غدو الغلس
لمني من وحشة العمر كما لمت النسمة عطر النرجس

يا زمان الحب هل رجع الى عهدنا و الروض زهر يبسم
ننهب الفرصة و الليل حلا بالأغاني و دعانا الموسم
يوم جئناه فأبدا سقم و تهادى بحرير الملبس
أشرقت عيناه سحراً مثلما يشرق الصبح بيومٍ مشمس


Al-Bustan Arab Music Concert Series features Lebanese vocalist Rima Khcheich in "Ya Habibi Kullama Habba-l Hawa" with Al-Bustan's resident takht ensemble: Music Director Hanna Khoury on violin, Kinan Idnawi on oud, Kinan Abou-afach on cello, and Hafez El Ali Kotain on percussion, accompanied by 73 members of the Wilmington Children's Chorus. March 23, 2013 at Trinity Center for Urban Life, Philadelphia. Video editing by Kyle Garvey. Sound by Joe Hannigan, Weston Sound.

يا حبيبي كلما - ريما خشيش

حتى لا أموت موتاً بعد موتي; اذكروني بكل ابتسامة شاغف دفئها قلوبكم من كل نغمة موسيقية صدرت من هذا المكان.

“ستقتلون كاتباً..
لكنكم لن تقتلوا الكتابه..
وتذبحون, ربما, مغنياً
لكنكم لن تذبحوا الربابه...”

Arsène Lupin VI

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