Dear Friends , the following wallpaper was made because of a question raised
by one group member , about the change in the lyrics of an old Fairouz Song ,
"The Tavern of Jourieh" , during the 2003 Dubai concert , where the word "
khammara = Tavern" was replaced by the word "Doukkna = shop " , and the word "sekran
= is getting drunk" in replaced by the word "sehran = is spending the evening "
.
Now in this page you must be hearing as a back ground music the original song
from the play "Hala wal Malek" (Hala and the king)
Clear here
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The Dialogue is Between fairouz and the guards and she is
directing them towards the Tavern of Jourieh where her father is getting sober ,
and drinking all the night , while she is working in the place of Town Selina to
sell masks for the "Halloween" feast .
and in the town the king is waiting for his , to become,
princess , so she needs her father to identify her as his daughter , so is
directing the guards to the tavern to bring him with the Tavern owner. Yet when
her Father will arrive he will deny her , hoping that will get a better life in
the Palace than that in her village "Daraj al Lawz" ( the almond steps) .
The Funny thing is what Elie Choueiri ( who played the drunk
father in the play) once told in an interview on the MTV , that there was a
women who watched this play more than 5 times and and each time during the scene
where fairouz starts blaming her father for his drinking problem , the women
would begin to cry , for she had the same problem with her father .but in
general that play had a clear message against the drinking problem and didn't
fear facing it in "tight" Lebanese society that was then , yet no critics were
raised for the simple raising of naming the "drunk state"
after the teachings that the rahbanis were brought up on are
clear :
Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that
which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
and :
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the
power of any.
So in no way the Rahbanis would implement or encourage
drinking , they were in opposite condemning this hideous habit , but I
understand the fact that changing lyrics goes with the spirit of a concert and
out of the play's context ,and not because it was held in a gulf country.
Hicham
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