جسور نت

I dream that…the mean, flattering facilitators would extinct from the Middle East!

all regimes that have no good credit among the miserable Arab citizens would evaporate.

we cart off the corona of sanctity and deism from our leaders, and take out of their speeches (that are unbelievable even by the dumbest people) all the rhetoric, false promise, and the games of disguise only to find ourselves at the end face to face with speeches characteristic of terrorism discourse.

those leaders who envisage loss as victory would sop doing this, so that we would, as much as we could, forget their Qadissiya(1) and Um-el-Ma’arik(2) and throw them into the wastebasket of history!

leaders would believe that in politics, as in love, there is a time for kissing a girl.

leaders stop fooling their peoples, strip their smiles, and live at their sorrows.

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I dream that…

we infuse life into our speech and alter the way we speak, and discontinue our rhetoric games on satellite TVs.

we do not let out daily language die, that it would be equal using it in screaming and argument!

those who can barely read would stop presenting themselves on government-owned TVs as cultivated and political analysts!

That the satirical British playwright G.B. Shaw’s “democracy is allowing all passengers drive the train, leading to collision, and then disaster” would not be applicable to us.

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Although I believe that the Middle East map is difficult and easy at the same time (difficult to draw, easy to tear!), I still dream that we remove from our lexicons such terms as “Iraqization, Lebanonizatoin, Kurdization, etc.”

I dream that the Middle Eastern peoples grow up and mature so as not to repeat such words as “tribe, honor killings, conspiracy, treasuring, etc.”

I dream that we do not label anyone who opposes us as a spy!

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I dream that we correct the West’s mistaken view about us, because we are in their subconscious one of two types; either a hateful suicidal youth who is a mass murderer, or a long-beard, witless, fat old man who has four wives of whom you can only see their eyes and know nothing of the world save bearing children, and so would be good models for involuntary birth control!

We tried pan-Arabism, tribal fanaticism, and Arabisation. What was the result? Seas of tears capable of drowning!

We tried extremism, fundamentalism, and throat slitting. What was the result? Waves of fiery sorrows capable of burning.

We do not know what we want, but accuse the world of not understanding us and consider anyone who opposes us an enemy whose death we command and allow!

Why don’t we stop thinking that our success lie in the loss of the other, our joy its misery? The eye-for-eye policy would make the whole world blind!

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I have been dreaming that…

we do not think of freedom as a Western product.

we stop remaining void politically, economically, and academically.

the simple citizen stop clinging to margins!

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It is true that inequality cannot be eradicated, but we can lessen it. The Middle Eastern woman can nominate and gain votes qualifying her for victory in integral parliamentary and presidential elections where the ballot has the upper hand.

Ah! How narrow that future seems when we reflect over the past!

I dream that Arabs would stop whipping themselves, because that dead is not worth crying over!

I dream that we become satisfied that dealing with what we have is better than waiting for the missing!

I dream that we believe the happiest days are those still ahead!

Finally, I dream that my dreams stop being mere dreams in the imaginary world! I also dream that I will not be the one described in those famous lines:

When I dream, I am the master of Khornaq and Sadeer(3);

If awake, the owner of a cow and a camel!

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Ah! I wish we can achieve our dreams with the least losses possible, but nothing comes free!

I also dream, personally, that I can, as a Middle Eastern journalist, write about the Holy Trinity freely but responsibly!

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1 Qadissiya is the name Saddam Hussein labeled the war with Iran (1980-1988).
2 Um-el-Ma’arik is Saddam’s naming of the second Gulf War (1991).
3 Khornaq and Sadeer are famous Persian palaces.

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