عبدالحليم حافظ حكاية السد العالي

We said we will build, and indeed we built, the High Dam.
O Colonialism, we built the High Dam with our hands.
We said we will build, and indeed we built, the High Dam.
O Colonialism, we built the High Dam with our hands.
With our money, with our workers’ hands.
With our money, with our workers’ hands.
That’s the word; indeed we built it.
We said we will build, and indeed we built, the High Dam.
I…
O Colonialism, we built the High Dam with our hands.
I…
What?
Excuse me, I’d like to say something.
What?
This isn’t a story about the Dam;
It’s a story about the struggle behind the Dam.
It’s our story, the story of
a people who, for the sacred march, rose and revolted
A people advancing, lighting sparks with each step.
A fighting people for whom victory was written.
Will you hear the story?
Just tell it from the beginning!
It’s the story of a war
Between us and colonialism
Do you remember when the people became Westernized
Inside their country?
Yes, we remember!
And the forceful occupier enjoyed himself
In it – him alone?
We haven’t forgotten!
And the gallows were for whoever was coming and going;
And the blood of the free who passed away in Denshawai.
Here it all started;
The people began the story.
Our struggle,
By the fire of our wounds,
Was written with the blood of the victims.
And we overcame! We overcame! We overcame!
We overcame the day the army rose up and revolted,
The day we lit the fire of its revolution,
The day we expelled corruption,
The day we liberated the country,
The day we made them withdraw!
We overcame! We overcame! We overcame!

The good, beloved land returned
to the hands of its owners.
We took back its glory and the treasures
lost in its soil.
We said, “Let’s go build its future
and return to it its youth.”
”What will we do?”
It was natural that we look to the Nile,
which holds our souls in its hands.
It dies and is lost in the sea,
while the deserts long for it.
We said, “Let’s build a High Dam,
a High Dam, a High Dam.”

But colonialism made it very difficult for us.
Why should we give it back our glory?
What did he do?
He went to the bank which helps and gives.
A clerk told him, told us, “I have nothing for you.”
”What did we say?”
There was a powerful outcry
In the square in Alexandria
A cry given by Gamal
And we nationalized the canal!
We nationalized the canal! We nationalized the canal!
That blow came from an instructorم
who made colonialism surrender.
And the economic blockade:
It brought its weapons and its planes,
Its submarines and its tanks,
And attacked to make us submit.
We were fire that ate their armies.
Fire that says, “Do you want more?”
And we overcame; their disgrace is still memorialized
in the soil of Port Said.
And Pan-Arabism… every home stood with us,
And the free people stood against those who attacked us.
And we overcame! We overcame! We overcame!

This, then, is the people’s story.
a people who, for the sacred march, rose and revolted
A people advancing, lighting sparks with each step.
A people Gamal made victorious.

We said we will build, and indeed we built, the High Dam.
The High Dam!
O Colonialism, we built the High Dam with our hands.
The High Dam!
With our money, with our workers’ hands.
With our money, with our workers’ hands.
That’s the word; indeed we built it.


عبد الحليم حافظ - السد العالي

قولنا هنبنى وادى احنا بنينا السد العالى
يا استعمار بنيناه بأدينا السد العالى
قولنا هنبنى وادى احنا بنينا السد العالى
يا استعمار بنيناه بأدينا السد العالى
من اموالنا بايد عمالنا
من اموالنا بايد عمالنا
هى الكلمه وادى احنا بنينا

قولنا هنبنى وادى احنا بنينا السد العالى
وانى
يا ستعمار بنيناه بايدينا السد العالى
وانى
إيه؟
تسمحولى بكلمه
ايه؟
الحكايه مش حكايه السد
حكايه الكفاح اللى ورا السد
حكايتنا احنا حكايه
شعب للزحف المقدس قام وثار
شعب زاحف خطوته تولع شرار
شعب كافح وانكتبله الانتصار
تسمعوا الحكايه؟
بس قولها من البدايه
هى حكايه حرب وتار
بينا وبين الاستعمار
فاكريين لما الشعب اتغرب
جوه فبلده
اه فاكريين
والمحتل الغاصب ينعم
فيها لوحده
مش ناسيين
والمشانق للى رايح واللى جاى
ودم احرارنا اللى راحوا فى دنشواى
من هنا كانت البدايه
وابتدى الشعب الحكايه
كان كفاحنا
بنار جراحنا
يكتبه دم الضحايا
وانتصارنا انتصرنا انتصرنا
انتصارنا يوم ما هب الجيش وثار
يوم ما اشعلنا ثوره له ونار
يوم ما اخرجنا الفساد
يوم ما حررننا البلاد
يوم ما حققنا الجلاء
انتصرنا انتصرنا انتصرنا

رجعت الارض الحبيبه الطيبه
لايدين صحابها
التقينا العز فيها والكنوز
تايها فى ترابها
قولنا نلحق نبنى مستقبلها
ونرجع شببها
نعمل ايه
كان طبيعى نبص للنيل
اللى ارواحنا فى ايديه
مايته فى البحر ضايعه
والصحارى فى شوق اليه
قلنا نبنى سد عالى
سد عالى سد عالى

بس الاستعمار صعب حالنا عليه
ليه نرجع مجدنا ونعيده ليه
يعمل إيه؟
راح على البنك اللى بساعد ويدى
قاله حاسب قالنا ملكمش عندى
قلنا ايه
كانت الصرخه القويه
فى الميدان فى اسكندريه
صرخه اطلقها جمال
واحنا اممنا القنال
احنا أممنا القنال! احنا أممنا القنال!
ضربه كانت من معلم
خلى الاستعمار يسلم
والحصار الاقتصادى
جاب سلاحه طيارته
غوصاته دباباته
واعتدى علشان نسلم
هو مين لاء ده بعده
هو مين لاء ده بعده
كنا نار اكلت جيوشهم
نار تقول هل من مزيد
وانتصرنا ولسه عارهم ذكرى
فى تراب بورسعيد
والعروبه فكل دار وقفت معانا
والشعوب الحره جت عاللى عدانا
وانتصرنا انتصرنا انتصرنا

ادى حكايه الشعب
شعب للزحف المقدس قام وثار
شعب زاحف خطوته تولع شرار
شعب حققله جمال الانتصار

قولنا هنبنى وادى احنا بنينا
السد العالى
يا استعمار بنيناه بايدينا
السد العالى
من اموالنا بايد عمالنا
من اموالنا بايد عمالنا
هى الكلمه وادى احنا بنينا

BAHRAIN - Truth Under Fire

Saudi youth call for Revolution Day demos on Friday ...

TEHRAN, April 19 (MNA) -- The Free Youth Movement of Saudi Arabia has called on all Muslims throughout the world to hold demonstrations on Friday for Revolution Day in support of reform in Saudi Arabia.
In a statement, which was published on the Internet on Tuesday, the movement called on Saudis to take to the streets of Riyadh this Friday, which they named Revolution Day, the Fars News Agency reported.

They also asked Muslims in the rest of the world to gather in front of Saudi Arabian embassies in their countries on Friday to call for the release of all political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, hundreds of Shia Muslims staged a demonstration in the oil-rich eastern region of Saudi Arabia for a second straight day, demanding political reforms, religious freedoms, the release of prisoners detained without trial, and an end to the kingdom’s policy of arbitrary arrests.

Nine Shias have been imprisoned since 1996 without trial and hundreds more have been arrested over the past few weeks during a government crackdown.

Some protesters also called for the withdrawal of Saudi-led troops from Bahrain, which were dispatched to quell the Shia uprising in the country.

The protests are in direct violation of the Saudi government’s official ban on public demonstrations.

Photographer Reflects on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World

Program: PBS NewsHour
Episode: Photographer Reflects on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World

Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war in Iraq. Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - was his most dangerous.

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