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		<title>Shakibé Celebrates Women&#8217;s Day 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Celebrating International Women&#8217;s Day, Nasawiya Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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This year too, our friends at the Beirut-based Arab feminist collective Nasawiya have decided to take their International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) actions to the streets to interact with people and raise awareness about women&#8217;s issues.
After weeks of rehearsals, two groups performed over the weekend of March 6-7, 2010 &#8220;Invisible Theater&#8221; actions in several locations around [...]]]></description>
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<p>This year too, our friends at the Beirut-based Arab feminist collective Nasawiya have decided to take their International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) actions to the streets to interact with people and raise awareness about women&#8217;s issues.</p>
<p>After weeks of rehearsals, two groups performed over the weekend of March 6-7, 2010 &#8220;Invisible Theater&#8221; actions in several locations around Beirut. The scenes performed were about sexual harassment, and a brother meddling in his sister&#8217;s life. Go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/FeministCollective">Nasawiya&#8217;s YouTube Channel</a> to see videos from the sibling meddling group&#8217;s performance in Costa, Hamra and ABC Mall, Achrafieh.</p>
<p>Developed by Brazilian activist and theater director, Augusto Boal, the &#8220;Theater of the Oppressed and Invisible Theater&#8221; technique consists of performing a previously rehearsed play in a public space without the public&#8217;s knowing that it is a play. It addresses a precise theme concerning social injustice, such as sexism. It is intended to provoke debate and to clarify the problem with the people who experience it.</p>
<p>Nasawiya also printed over 40 congratulatory banners which were hung in and around Beirut. You may have spotted them while you were out and about.</p>
<p>Members and friends also distributed 3,000 Happy IWD stickers in streets, offices and universities.</p>
<p>Through a special partnership with the progressive daily <a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/taxonomy/term/15606%2C18560">Al-Akhbar</a>, other members contributed articles to the paper&#8217;s March 8, 2010 issue, celebrating International Women&#8217;s Day.</p>
<p>And while the Nasawiya hive was buzzing, another group of activists documented the collective&#8217;s preparations for IWD 2010 in a <a>do-it-yourself </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc2B581dgg">video</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc2B581dgg"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8AsSjUQAMc"></a>.</p>
<p>Nasawiya&#8217;s IWD actions will culminate tonight at 6:30 PM with a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=205343&amp;id=337567040733&amp;saved#!/event.php?eid=375628769256&amp;ref=mf">“take back the night” march</a> for all women&#8217;s rights.</p>
<p>“How many times have we thought twice about leaving our homes at night?” said Farah Salka, Nasawiya&#8217;s General Coordinator. “How many times have we dreaded the walk back home, even from the car up to our apartment? How many times have we walked at night, always looking over our shoulders? How many times have we been silenced, just because we were women? That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve decided to take to the streets to demand that the night be a safe time for women and remind people that gender equality is an integral part of human rights and that there&#8217;s still a lot to do for women&#8217;s rights and social justice.”</p>
<p>Nasawiya&#8217;s march calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence, be they verbal, physical, and sexual must be eliminated; the elimination of sexism and all forms of discrimination, and exploitation that are based on gender, sexuality, able-bodiedness, ethnicity, race, religion, class, etc.; the right of women to their bodies and sexualities; and the abolition of all laws that violate women&#8217;s rights.</p>
<p>Whichever way you&#8217;re celebrating International Women&#8217;s Day, we wish you all a very happy one.</p>
<p>The revolution continues&#8230;</p>
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		<title>تحية&#8230;مش للمرأة</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ma7ada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[منقرا ومنسمع هالكلمة كتير: كل عام وانتم بخير في يوم المرأة العالمي.
ملاحظتين: اولاً، انتنّ ومش أنتم…
بعدين، هل انه نحن فعلاً بخير حتى كل عام نكون بخير؟ سؤال؟
 تحيات كتيرة عم تتوجه للمرأة، واكيد بتستحقها…
بس أنا اليوم بدي وجه تحية لناس ثانيين، كان الهن دور كتير كبير بحياة المرأة:للي كانوا يقولوا لأمها: فرحة عريس
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ملاحظتين: اولاً، انتنّ ومش أنتم…<br />
بعدين، هل انه نحن فعلاً بخير حتى كل عام نكون بخير؟ سؤال؟</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">تحيات كتيرة عم تتوجه للمرأة، واكيد بتستحقها…<br />
بس أنا اليوم بدي وجه تحية لناس ثانيين، كان الهن دور كتير كبير بحياة المرأة:للي كانوا يقولوا لأمها: فرحة عريس<br />
للي زعلوا وقت عرفوا انه المولود بنت<br />
لكل اللي حاولوا يقنعوها، انه خيها احسن منها لانه صبي، وهي بنت…<br />
للي ما بحياتن سمعوها، ع اساس انها بنت، شو ممكن يكون عندها تقوله…<br />
للي حاولوا يقنعوها انه كل دورها بالحياة تدور ع عريس، تتجوز، وتجيب ولاد وتعمل عيلة…<br />
لكل اللي حاولوا يهينوا الرجال بانن يقولوله: “مثل النسوان”<br />
لكل اللي حاولوا يكسروها وفشلوا…<br />
لكل اللي حاولوا يمنعوها تحقق احلامها…<br />
لكل اللي وقفوا بوجه طموحاتها..<br />
لكل اللي زرعوا الشوك بدربها وقطفوا الورود…<br />
لكل اللي حاولوا يستغلوها وما قدروا…<br />
لكل اللي اعتبروا رأيها ما اله قيمة…<br />
لكل اللي فكروا دورها ما اله قيمة…<br />
لكل اللي حرموها من حقوقها ومنحوها لانفسن…<br />
لكل القوانين اللي وضعت لتكون ضدها…<br />
لكل الظلم اللي شافته بحياتها…<br />
لكل اللي استغلوها وابتزوها وهددوها…<br />
لكل اللي ما شافوا فيها غير شكل حلو وجسم….!<br />
لكل اللي غرسوا سكاكينهن بقلبها ومشيوا…<br />
للإيدين اللي عاملتها بعنف والعيون اللي احتقرتها…<br />
للكلمات الجارحة اللي سمعتها…<br />
لصرخات الوجع اللي بلعتها…<br />
للدموع اللي حبستها…<br />
وللطرقات المعتمة اللي مشيتها وحدها…بوجهلهن تحية…<br />
لولاهن ما كانت صارت اقوى…<br />
وقررت تكسر كل الحواجز…<br />
ما كانت طالبت بحقوقها!<br />
ما كانت عرفت:<br />
الحنان من القسوة<br />
الزهرة من الشوكة<br />
ما كانت عرفت الغضب، الثورة، الحزن، الألم<br />
ما كانت عرفت معنى الفرح<br />
ما كانت قدّرت الايدين اللي ساعدتها<br />
والعيون اللي احتضنتها…<br />
والقلوب اللي رحّبت فيها…<br />
ما كانت عرفت شو يعني انك تكوني مرا…<br />
ما كانت صارت…<br />
مرا حرة…</span></p>
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		<title>Thoughts from the Waiting Room:  Contemporary Arab Feminisms and the Early 19th Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most social circles today, when the question of Arab feminism is brought up, eyebrows are raised and the question shifts to whether or not Arabs have a feminist history to begin with. Is feminism a Western construct that, we, the locals of this world,  are trying toadapt to suit the needs of our own contexts? When I  claim, with all my might, “I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In most social circles today, when the question of Arab feminism is brought up, eyebrows are raised and the question<a rel="attachment wp-att-2470" href="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/2010/03/thoughts-from-the-waiting-room-contemporary-arab-feminisms-and-the-early-19th-century/thoughts_from_the_waiting_room/"><img class="size-full wp-image-2470 alignleft" title="thoughts_from_the_waiting_room" src="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/thoughts_from_the_waiting_room.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="225" /></a> shifts to whether or not Arabs have a feminist history to begin with. Is feminism a Western construct that, we, the locals of this world,  are trying toadapt to suit the needs of our own contexts? When I  claim, with all my might, “I am a feminist” – Am I tapping into an identity  that is actually void of local or regional historicity?</p>
<p>For the purposes of this article, I could have begun with a historical  timeline of women’s struggles among Arabs, if only to shove it in the<br />
faces of all skeptics who, before reading this fantastic article, once had  doubts. Unfortunately, questions of identities and constructs are  unavoidable, especially when most women’s voices have not had a place<br />
in history textbooks or within major political discourses of our region.  Even today, the overarching cross-cultural argument that “women must wait for their rights because there are more urgent national priorities at hand,” is still very much in use. And so it looks like we, the women, are doomed to wait for a while – and lucky for us, this waiting room is not one without character. In Lebanon, it also happens to host over 400 000 Palestinians who are waiting for their rights to social justice and freedom; thousands of Ethiopians, Filipinos, Sri Lankans, Madagascans, who are waiting for proper labor laws; tens of thousands of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, queers and transgender persons who are waiting for the abolishment of Article 534 and its replacement with a law that recognizes and protects them. And the list goes on. This waiting room keeps getting more and more crowded with individuals and groups of people who face institutionalized discrimination on a daily basis and who, oddly enough, also manage to discriminate against each other. But what does any of this have to do with feminism or our very own feminist history anyway?</p>
<p>You see, when you spend most of your life in the waiting room, where most things that happen go unrecorded, it becomes less urgent for you to question whether “feminism” is the right word to describe your experiences or your ideologies, whether the term “homosexual” can even begin to encompass your understanding of your sexuality, or whether English is strategically even the right language to write this article. At the end of the day, these are words, and words can never fully capture the complexity of your emotions, experiences and histories. These words begin to take their place at the heart of your struggle the minute you realize that without language on your side, you will never have a chance of winning the battle for social justice.</p>
<p>Throughout the region and as early as 1892, women caught on to this idea, and began printing and publishing their own journals, magazines, books, and flyers. While mainstream publications had little if any concern in publishing women’s writings, the early 19th century witnessed the creation of numerous independent printing presses owned by women across the region and especially in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. Women’s rights activist and writer Bouthaina Shaaban recounts that “there were more than 25 Arab feminist journals owned, edited, and published by women &#8212; all before the First World War. These editors stated in their editorials that their most important concern was women: women&#8217;s literature, women&#8217;s rights, and women&#8217;s future.”[i]</p>
<p>At the turn of the century, we, the people of this region, were in the process of creating a history of anti-colonialist struggles that were nationalist at heart, and which inevitably influenced the women’s movements of the era. This became clear in Egypt for the most part, during the 1919 revolution, where &#8220;the veiled gentlewomen of Cairo paraded in the streets shouting slogans for independence and freedom from foreign occupation. They organised strikes and demonstrations, boycotts of British goods and wrote petitions protesting British actions in Egypt.&#8221;[ii] This margin, through which women were able to get into the streets, was made possible because these women fought against a system that oppressed the population as a whole. Theirs was not a struggle that was essentially focused on women’s rights, but a rather holistic struggle from which feminist issues could not be disentangled. Nevertheless, fighting off the misogyny that existed within nationalist ideologies that constantly put their issues at the back of the agenda was not uncommon then and neither is it today.</p>
<p>One of the prominent figures of Al-Nahda, was Palestinian-Lebanese poet, essayist and journalist May Zaide, who also happened to be a fervent women’s rights advocate. At a time when women were either perceived as child bearers or as objects of sexual pleasure, Zaide spoke passionately on the importance of proper education, of equality between men and women, and of women’s place in the workforce. In 1912, Zaide established a literary salon in Cairo, which distinguished literary circles of the time visited frequently. May Zaide, perceived as a liberated woman and radical thinker by her contemporaries, was diagnosed with depression by the end of the thirties, and then confined to a psychiatric asylum by relatives who sought to take over her properties. She passed away shortly afterwards, in 1941. Whether or not she was disappointed in the world she had left behind is hard to tell; nevertheless, this woman – like many others who preceded her and whose thoughts are yet to be unearthed – exhausted every platform available to her to advance her cause.</p>
<p>In that spirit, it is vital for us today to continue with our foremothers’ tradition in creating a multitude of sites, through which discourses that call for social justice, with their variations and different focuses, can emanate and bolster our movements.</p>
<p>[i] Shaaban, Bouthaina. “The Hidden History of Arab Feminism.” MS. Magazine. May/June 1993. 76 – 77.</p>
<p>[ii] Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. Zed Books. 1986.</p>
<p>This article is based on hours of conversations between Shant and Lynn and short attempts to excavate histories that were not taught to either of us in schools or universities. This is still a work in progress that aims to explore and build on our own experimentations with writing historical narratives.</p>
<p><em>Contributed by Shant &amp; Lynn</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gholam Abi Nawas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[اليوم الثامن من آذار. أنا الموقع أدناه بكامل قواي النسوية، الغريزية والمكتسبة، بطواعية الاجهاض وكامل السلطة على جسدي، أقف لأحيي النساء اللواتي صنعنني، اللواتي ولدنني شاذا ثائرا رافضا لثنائية الجندر وخارجا عن قوانين السيطرة الأبوية... إلى اللواتي فتحن أرجلهن وبصقنني نطفة مخنثة ترفع كعبها العالي سيفا في وجه كل انواع التمييز والظلم ... إلى اللواتي بصقنني خارج رحم المجتمع الذكوري... إلى اللواتي ربينني وجعلنني الرجل الذي أنا هو اليوم..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">اليوم الثامن من آذار. أنا الموقع أدناه بكامل قواي النسوية، الغريزية والمكتسبة، بطواعية الاجهاض وكامل السلطة على جسدي، أقف لأحيي النساء اللواتي صنعنني، اللواتي ولدنني شاذا ثائرا رافضا لثنائية الجندر وخارجا عن قوانين السيطرة الأبوية&#8230; إلى اللواتي فتحن أرجلهن وبصقنني نطفة مخنثة ترفع كعبها العالي سيفا في وجه كل انواع التمييز والظلم &#8230; إلى اللواتي بصقنني خارج رحم المجتمع الذكوري&#8230; إلى اللواتي ربينني وجعلنني الرجل الذي أنا هو اليوم&#8230; جعلنني لا-رجل! الى النساء اللواتي علمنني ان الحرية تؤخذ ولا تعطى، وعلمنني أن الدفاع بدون هجوم هو كالهواء بدون اوكسجين، يلطف الجو&#8230; ولكن لا ينفع للتنفس.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">لكل هواتي أقول شكرا&#8230;أضم صوتي إلى أصواتهن وأنا اقف بين يدي الله الجائر الواحد في الشوفينية، الموحد في الذكورية والأبوية&#8230; لأشهد بأن جسمي لي أنا &#8230; قراري انا.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">أقف لأحييهن ولأعترف أمام الله الواحد في الشوفينية، الموحد في الذكورية والأبوية ان لا نضال بدون النضال النسوي، وان كل الحريات تبدأ بالتحرر النسوي الراديكالي.</span></span></p>
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		<title>Are you still waiting for a revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sit at an overtly gay house.
I see women who babble on about a revolution and I smirk. 
I see women bonding together into a group hug and I cringe.
I remain in a bubble of egocentrism and enjoy an abundance
of personal theories on human behavior. Not mine obviously,
I am almost clueless in that area. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sit at an overtly gay house.<br />
I see women who babble on about a revolution and I smirk. <a rel="attachment wp-att-2439" href="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/2010/03/are-you-still-waiting-for-a-revolution/meem_logo/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2439" title="meem_logo" src="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/meem_logo-300x195.gif" alt="" width="240" height="156" /></a><br />
I see women bonding together into a group hug and I cringe.<br />
I remain in a bubble of egocentrism and enjoy an abundance<br />
of personal theories on human behavior. Not mine obviously,<br />
I am almost clueless in that area. I observe and study my<br />
new found friends at Meem. What makes them so attached to a<br />
supposed “revolution”? Do they need  a reason to socialize?<br />
Are they filling an emotional void?</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a revolution that is yet to happen. I keep theorizing. As I’ve become acquainted with some of the ladies’ personal stories and struggles I realise it has been ongoing for years. With every outrageous anecdote I hear, I start to see lines traced on a map. A drawing that if followed with a trueness to one’s self, could only lead to an uprising on a personal and social level… the revolution!</p>
<p>I see women offering unconditional support to each other.<br />
I see survivors of many forms of ignorance and oppression. Women who have rebelled against their families and defied the social norms.</p>
<p>On a personal level,  I have begun fighting at the age of five when the kids at school made fun of my short height, and I had to stand up for myself and say “<em>Mbala! Ana bsaff el 12eme!”<sup>1</sup></em>. And the fight, like a fatal virus,  keeps mutating into new forms , the hardest being my acceptance of myself.</p>
<p>Now, nearly four months after meeting these lovely ladies (and boys!), I am not sure I can express how I feel for them in words. “<em>I love you”</em> fails to contain the emotion. I try to express it in a hug. Whenever I see a couple of people hugging, I latch on like a parasite and call for a group hug. If it happens that I’m away for two days, by my fault mostly, I throw tiny lesbianesque tantrums. I’ve become an emotional pest.</p>
<p>My mind wanders as I admire their looks and I cannot help but see how beautiful each and every one of them is. I see beauty in their flaws. I am infatuated. I would suggest we enter a group beauty contest but I’m afraid that would get my derriere whipped. Perhaps I should make such a suggestion…</p>
<p>I see delicate beauty marks.<br />
I see marvels in theirs eyes,<br />
I see vivid sparkles .<br />
I see the ocean.<br />
Sometimes I see China.</p>
<p>At Meem, I have found long lost friends back from my babydyke days. I’ve met freedom fighters who battle tirelessly. Rebels surfing the winds of social change. Some persist on fighting with one kidney.</p>
<p>I see arms of thought, film and poetry.<br />
I sit at a home pounding with love and overflowing with affection.</p>
<p>The revolution for these women is innate. And by joining their knowledge and capabilities together, I see no stopping to it.</p>
<p>My friends, my loved ones, let’s keep <em>“celebrating that something has tried to kill us but failed!” </em></p>
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<p>Happi Women’s Day!</p>
<p><sup>1</sup>- <em>Yes I am in Grade 1</em></p>
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		<title>عن الصدور النسوية و&#8221;السوتيان&#8221; الذكورية</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[باليوم العالمي للمرأة، من المنطقي نحكي عن الحق بالحماية من العنف الاسري، عن حق الام اللبنانية بالرعاية الكاملة لولادها، عن حق المرأة المش لبنانية بكامل الحقوق، عن  الحماية من العنف الجنسي واللفظي بالشارع، والحقوق الدستورية ابتداءاً من الحق بالجنسية، والخ الخ الخ.

بس اليوم بدي استرعي انتباهكن لاحد الحقوق البديهية ويللي بديهياً منسية. بدي احكي اليوم عن ملكية متنازع عليها منذ فجر العصر الذكوري العريق، عن ملكية صدور النسوان. وقبل ما انطلق بالجهاد الكلامي، بحب الفت نظركن على انو تم اختيار الصدر كجزء من كل، الصدر هون كناية عن كامل الجسد النسائي المتنازع عليه. [...]]]></description>
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<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">باليوم العالمي للمرأة، من المنطقي نحكي عن الحق بالحماية من العنف الاسري،عن حق الام اللبنانية بالرعاية الكاملة لولادها، عن حق المرأة المش لبنانية بكامل الحقوق، عن  الحماية من العنف الجنسي واللفظي بالشارع، والحقوق الدستورية ابتداءاً من الحق بالجنسية، والخ الخ الخ.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">بس اليوم بدي استرعي انتباهكن لاحد الحقوق البديهية ويللي بديهياً منسية. بدي احكي اليوم عن ملكية متنازع عليها منذ فجر العصر الذكوري العريق، عن ملكية صدور النسوان. وقبل ما انطلق بالجهاد الكلامي، بحب الفت نظركن على انو تم اختيار الصدر كجزء من كل، الصدر هون كناية عن كامل الجسد النسائي المتنازع عليه.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">نحنا كنساء (حاليات او سابقات) ذوات هويات جندرية وميول جنسية خارجة<br />
عن قوانين التطبيع الذكوري، او بالمختصر المفيد نحنا &#8220;الشاذات&#8221;، من اكتر نساء<br />
المجتمع المشكوك بجمالهن. من حيث لا ندري، منتعرّض لوابل من الاتهامات بإننا بشعين، متل الصبيان، ومريضين. ومن هون جهادنا لتفكيك وتحليل ماهية المرأة، أو مفهوم انك تكوني مرأة.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">ومن هون، منوصل سوا لفحوى الموضوع: “السوتيان&#8221;، او ما يعرف بالبزازة، مشد الصدر، الصدرية، الخ. للبنت مدخلين للأنوثة، العادة الشهرية والسوتيان، خياران أحلاهما مر. والسوتيان هيي أول اعتراف ببلوغ البنت سن الخصوبة، بما انو الصدر بيبلش يبين قبل وصول العادة المنتظرة. وعادة بتركض الام لعند أمها، او أي ممثلة للحكمة الأمومية، بتجر البنت وراها، بتتوشوش النسوان، بتقرّب أم الأم من البنت، بتتحسس المنطقة الصدرية. بتتشاور أم الأم مع الأم قبل ما يصدر القرار النهائي: نعم قد أتانا الصدر الاعظم.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">البنت عادة بتتحمس لفكرة انو تصير متل الكبار، بتتحمس للاهتمام، ويمكن لفكرة انو حدا يشتريلها شي جديد. بس بعد فترة بتروح السكرة وبتجي الفكرة. من بعد السوتيان الاولى اللي بتكون قطنية ولطيفة واللي ما بتتردد الأم تشتريها لبنتها، بتجي السوبر سوتيان، يلي بتشد وبترفع وبتحسس وبتشكوك. وبعدين في دعايات &#8220;كاي-لين&#8221; و&#8221;لا سنزا&#8221; و&#8221;فيكتورياز سيكرت&#8221;، دعايات السوتيان الخارقة والغالية اللي مش بمقدور كل الأمهات يشتروها، بكون معظم نساء لبنان سوتياناتهن من تبع الخمسة آلاف ليرة. ثم فوق الدكة شرطوطة، السوبر سوتيان بدها عناية خاصة، غسيل عالايد وبمي باردة. واخيرا وليس اخرا في الفوارق العائلية البسيطة والمتناقلة من الأم للبنت، عن ضرورة لبس السوتيان اثناء النوم او عدمها، ضرورة لبس السوتيان فور النهوض من النوم او فور الخروج من البيت، هل استقبال الجارات للصبحية من دون سوتيان لائق او لأ، هل يجوز لبس السوتيان المزخرفة تحت قميص رقيقة (اي هل يجوز اظهار الزخرفة) ام لا؟ هل يجوز اظهار شرائط السوتيان ام يجب اللجوء لشرايط بلاستيكية شفافة ؟</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">اسئلة كتيرة بيرجع الجواب عليها للتقاليد العائلية ومعايير اللياقة او عدمها. وانما بيبقى ثابت لا محالة ضرورة لبس السوتيان، ليش؟ ترتيب. عيب ما نلبس سوتيان. شو بدك تمشي انت وصدرك مشطشط؟ اصلا انا ما برتاح كون بلا سوتيان، بحس حالي غلط. يه! شو هالسؤال السخيف! شو بدك الدني كلا تتبحلق فيه يعني؟ اصلا مش شايفة صدري شو كبير؟! (او اذا صدرها زغير) يه! بيصيروا الشو اسمن طالعين (الشو اسمن هني الحلمات طبعا).</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">الحجج كتيرة والنتيجة ما بتتغيّر، مش ممكن تكوني مرا بلا سوتيان. وبتحدّا اية لبنانية سوتيانية تقلّي انو عندها القدرة تمشي بلا سوتيان برياحة. بالأول في الشعور بإنو صدرنا رح ينقطش، بعدين في شعور الزكزكة الغريب، وبعدين في البارانويا انو الناس بتعرف انو انا مش لابسة سوتيان وعم تضحك عليي. بعدين في تأنيب العيلة.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">ومننسى انو السوتيان مش هيي الوضع الطبيعي، هيي نوع من التطبيع الجسدي، اداة من ادوات اجبار الجسد على اتخاذ شكل معيّن، نوع من الخوف من طبيعتنا المتنوعة واكيد نوع من الغش. هيي الفكرة انو صدر المرا جزء حميم من جسدها، على عكس كل الثدييات والرئيسيات (قرود، وما سواها) الانثى الانسانة بتطور صدر مكتمل بشكل دائم، بالوقت اللي بتكتفي سائر الانثيات بصدر مكتمل بفترة الرضاعة. تساءل العلماء (اللي معظمن رجال على فكرة) عن السبب، وكترت النظريات. اكتر النظريات المتوافق عليها انو الانثى البشرية صدرها دائم نظرا لضغط اجتماعي اغوائي بيطلب منها انها تكون دائما جاهزة لاغراء الرجل.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">هلق متل اي جزء من جسد المراة بتكتر المستلزمات، وبتكتر نظريات نسوان الفرن. الصدر المشطشط  يعني كتير ملعوب في، فاذا انت مش مجوزة ضرورة يكون صدرك شديد. صدر البنت مش طبيعي يكون مشعر، وهون زيارة لسيلكور ضرورة قصوى، لأنه صحيح البنت ما رح يشوف صدرها الا جوزها بس هيدا الشي ما بيعني انو زوجها وتاج راسها رح يقبلها اذا صدرها مش احلس املس. بالمختصر المفيد صدر البنت ملك عام مخبى بقشرة بصلة، للكل الحق بابداء الرأي فيه والمشورة والأوامر.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">وهون مش لازم ننسى انه السوتيان ما خلقت من عدم، انما هيي خليفة سلالة عريقة من وسائل التعذيب والتحجيم المتخصصة بتصعيب حياة المراة. السوتيان اختراع سادي فظيع بترجع جذوره عالقليلة لإيام الاغريق. بس السوتيان بترتبط بشكل خاص بثقافة الكورسي، واللي ما بتفهم تعبير &#8220;كورسيه&#8221; عالطاير هوي المشد اللي كانت تلبسوا نساء اوروبا لرفع الصدر طلوع. وبما انو الاوروبيين ما كان عندن فهم لمبدأ &#8220;كل شي زاد بالمعنى نقص&#8221;، وصل &#8220;الكورسيه&#8221; بأوجه لحدود خطيرة، من رفع الصدر بشكل بيصعّب التنفس ويسبب الاغماء، لممارسات شنيعة متل نزع آخر ضلع او ضلعين من القفص الصدري لتحقيق الشكل المثالي.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">مع مرور الوقت وحلول الحرب العالمية التانية بشكل خاص، اضطرت المرأة الغربية لدخول سوق العمل من بابه العريض، وما عادت بس نساء الطبقة العاملة هني اللي بيشتغلوا، بمعظم الاحيان بتنظيف المنازل وخدمة الطبقات الاجتماعية العليا. وهيك اقتحمت شريحة واسعة من النساء السوق، اشتغلوا بالمصانع والمعامل للتعويض عن نقص الرجال. فبالتالي، وللمرة الاولى، انتبه المجتمع الغربي لخطورة الكورسيه والاعاقة الطوعية اللي بيفرضها على النساء. مش ممكن للمرأة تشتغل اذا لابسة كورسيه. بس بطبيعة الحال مش ممكن للمرأة تعيش بصدر متحرر، فتم تطوير ما يعرف بالسوتيان، أداة بتكمش الصدر بس ما بتخنق عالاخر.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">ومن هيدا المنطلق تكرست مع مرور الزمن السوتيان على انها رمز للذكورية الغربية، وتبنت مجتمعات ذكورية اخرى السوتيان كأداة تحكم بصدور النسوان، ورمز تحكم بسائر اعضاء ونفوس النساء.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">للسوتيان العديد من الاعداء الطبيعيين اللي ما رح يسمحلنا هيدا المقال بالتوسع فيهن كلن فرح نكتفي بذكر تنين منن. اول اعداء السوتيان تاريخيا كانوا النسويات الاميريكيات البيض، في الستينات، اللي كانوا بعدد من المناسبات يحرقوا السوتيان نظرا لرمزيتها القمعية الذكورية. وانتقلت حمى حرق السوتيان لسائر المجتمعات النسائية المناهضة للقالب الغربي للذكورية، وبشكل خاص باوروبا.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">بالمنطقة العربية ما شهدت الساحة النسوية (بعد!) ظاهرة حرق السوتيان. وذلك لأسباب عديدة، منها انه النسويات العربيات كانوا اولا مناضلات ضد الاستعمار، ثم مناضلات ضد الطبيقية والاقطاعية المستشرية. اما حاليا، فراح الاستعمار ورجعت الاقطاعية مقبولة اجتماعيا، اما النسويات فانحسروا بالصراع ضد محو الهوية الشخصية على حساب اما العولمة او التيارات المتشبهة بالدينية. بالوقت ذاته، تاريخنا مع السوتيان بيختلف عن تاريخ النسويات البيض الغربيات. نحنا لما نتطلع على السوتيان منشوف الماركة اللي هيي اما امريكية او متشبهة بالامريكية، وفقا للميزانية.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">بهيدا السياق، ما تم استهداف السوتيان بالتاريخ العربي الا بسياق استهداف جسد المراة. متل لما &#8220;حركة الشباب الاسلامي&#8221; بالصومال اصدرت فتوى حرمت فيه لبس السوتيان بحجة انها نوع من الغش. فكان الحل بالنسبة الهن انه اية امراة بتنلقط لابسة سوتيان بتنجبر تشلحها قدام الكل (ما تسألوني كيف) وتنجلد قدام الكل.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">طيب شو منستخلص من هالحديث الطويل؟ هينة نقول انو &#8220;حركة الشباب الاسلامي&#8221; ما الها حق تجلد النسوان بتهمة لبس السوتيان. وبعد اهين انو نقول ما اله حق المجتمع يجبرنا نلبس سوتيان؟ بس السؤال اللي بيطرح نفسه، هل الن الحق يحرّموا السوتيان من الاساس؟ والنسويات البيض الغربيات، هل الن الحق يحرقوا السوتيان؟ لأي درجة السوتيان ما زالت رمز لقمع الصدر النسائي؟</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">بالنهاية، اللبس مفروض يكون اختياري، ومش كل النساء بيلبسوا سوتيان لأنهن مجبورين. بس شو الفرق بين الخيار والفرض الاجتماعي غير المعلن؟ بالنسبة الي كان التخلي عن السوتيان جزء من طريق طويلة، بعدني بأولها، للتحرر من كرهي لذاتي، من حاجتي لقمع جسدي، لمصالحة جسدي، للصدق مع ذاتي، لمقاومة نظرات العالم واهانات العيلة، للمصالحة مع واقعي الطبقي كجزء من الطبقة العاملة اللي مش بمقدورها تصرف على اللبس. وأهم شي، انا شلحت السوتيان احتراما لجسدي، اللي عم بتعلم، شوي شوي، كيف ما جرح فيه بمختلف ادوات التعذيب متل السكر، والسوتيان، والمكياج، والكعب العالي، والصبغة، والتياب الضيقة.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">بس هيدي خبرتي انا مع السوتيان، خبرة شخصية جدا. ما بسمح لحالي اعتبر مثلا انو المرأة الترانس اللي حاربت المجتمع بأجمعيته لتلبس متل البنت اللي هيي بتشوفها وبتحترمها جواتها، ما بسمح لحالي اعتبرها عم بتخون مبادئي انا للنسوية. النسوية ايمان عميق بحرية الاختيار وحرية الوجود. وما بسمح لحالي اعتبر انو البنت/المرا اللي بتلبس سوتيان لأنها بتعرف انو اذا راحت عالشغل بلاها اكيد بتنشحط، ما فيني اعتبرها خاينة لأنها ما عم بتضحي كرمال تتحرر، بالنهاية التحرر المفرغ من التحرر المادي هوي لعبة &#8220;نفاريش&#8221; المجتمع اللي عايشين بصومعتن.</span></p>
<p dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: medium;">غلطة النسوية الغربية البيضة كان عنادها المطلق. صحيح انو هيدا العناد هوي اللي ساعدها تتحدا مجتمع كان مصر يحطمها، بس هوي العناد ذاته اللي غمضلهن ضمائرهن لما جربوا نساء ذوات تجربة مختلفة انه يتواصلوا معهن. ومشكلة الحركات المشابهة ل&#8221;حركة الشباب الاسلامي&#8221; انهن بصراعهن المشروع لمواجهة قوات ارهابية غربية، نسيوا انه الانسانة والانسان أدرى الناس بمصلحتهن  الشخصية.</span></p>
<p>Contributed by Ghoulama</p>
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		<title>On Postponing Pain and Other Anecdotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I watched my grandmother&#8217;s funeral from a distance, her body mingled with the earth covering her grave. My grandmother never  strayed away from the stereotype of an Arab woman. She married  young and made lots of children, buried her own husband and joined  him soon after. I’ve never seen my grandmother speak up to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2501" href="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/2010/03/on-postponing-pain-and-other-anecdotes/pain_and_other/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2501" style="margin: 5px;" title="pain_and_other" src="http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pain_and_other.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" /></a> I watched my grandmother&#8217;s funeral from a distance, her body mingled with the earth covering her grave. My grandmother never  strayed away from the stereotype of an Arab woman. She married  young and made lots of children, buried her own husband and joined  him soon after. I’ve never seen my grandmother speak up to  something she believed in, as if she believed in nothing.  My  grandmother like many women had been postponing the pain of being  a woman for the right moment.</p>
<p>The right moment for her and many others had been the grave; their  decaying bodies carry the stories they witnessed to the roots of what  grows under the sun, yet the somewhere between the roots and the  stems the transmission was lost. Nothing ever gets delivered. The  earth keeps their secrets hidden.</p>
<p>Postponing pain is a process we find ourselves doing automatically. It is a process where we as women deny ourselves the very right to be present and to react to justice. It prevents us from fully living our humanity to the most. To postpone our pain is to accept the very notion that promotes women as inferior to men. It is the coping mechanism we have inherited that prevents us from questioning the reasons behind our suffering and misery. And yes women are miserable, for no soul living under oppression and injustice can understand what happiness or freedom are.</p>
<p>Women are commodities. Their bodies are sold by the thousands of companies to market products. Women bodies represent obedient objects; you can turn them on as you please or turn them off with ways you find suitable, just like owning a car you drive.  Women postpone their ownership of their bodies, because it’s painful to feel unused when the alternative of being unused-that is emancipation and freedom- remains hidden and manipulated by religion, economy and patriarchy.</p>
<p>Women postpone pain that should initiate their struggle against a huge war machine that comes prepared with all kinds of weapons, be it physical, emotional, social or psychological.  This war bombards them daily with products to match a predetermined identity from cleaning products to cosmetics. It is painful to realize that you are always in need of corrections to suit a society that you thought you belonged to. It is painful to realize that you are loved because of what you add to yourself not because this is the “natural” you.</p>
<p>To postpone pain is to accept that injustice is part of the normalcy, where sexual harassment becomes part of an identity rather an aggressive ill-mannered behavior that demeans the very idea of women. It is painful to destroy everything we are familiar with, to have to build one&#8217;s self in a world so fast and so changing that the issue of being a woman becomes irrelevant sometimes, because women&#8217;s rights, issues and demands are being diluted by modernity and globalization. What is a woman to a world that is still debating the accuracy of humans causing climate change while natural catastrophes are hitting left and right?</p>
<p>It becomes essential that we face all of these painful facts. It is essential to end our current passive stand, while the world around us is falling apart. It is with our emancipation that this world can have a chance in surviving such an abusive systems be it patriarchy, or capitalism and their existing structures that are all forms of discrimination.</p>
<p><strong>Other anecdotes on postponing pain</strong></p>
<p><strong>Tarik El Jdideh 1998</strong></p>
<p>Salma had been exhausted all day, she had just entered the peak of her teenage angst and her mother didn’t want to hear about it. Someone needed to get dinner on time because it was not going to cook itself. She had been avoiding the elevator for years now. She’d take the stairs all they way up to the 5<sup>th</sup> floor. Her neighbor had this weird habit of coming very close to her in the elevator; his smell never seemed to depart the space, and so she avoided the memories of those unpleasant memories. His breath had been something she dreamt about constantly. It was September and the heat had brought trouble to her mind, as she entered the small alley leading to her building, the images of her neighborhood falling apart was irresistible. She’d walked slowly to enjoy the imagery of her mind, it had help her to forget about the heat, it had helped her to forget about going up to the 5<sup>th</sup> floor.</p>
<p><strong>Harit Hreik 2006</strong></p>
<p>She gathered whatever she could fit to the small bag, running down to meet her husband in the car, the bag in one hand and the baby in the other hand. She ran down the stairs insisting that no errors of falling down will occur as she finds her way to the ground floor passing through the many residents of her building fleeing their homes as well. Everyone was one she knew was on the street; everyone was shouting, and all the cars where honking. The music of the war was growing louder by the second. In a kindergarten classroom, she’d found her new home. She made sure to stifle anything that came up directly from her heart to her mouth. It’s been chaotic and thrilling. On the 17<sup>th</sup> day of displacement, a friend of the family had managed to make her body a battlefield. She survived two wars; in the second war she’d lost something more valuable than the land itself, than victory and pride. On her first day of returning to what looked like home, she took a long shower.</p>
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		<title>Abuse? What Abuse?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had “the abuse conversation” with your mother? Has she ever said to you that if anybody touches your “intimate parts,” it is called abuse and it is not acceptable? Has she ever told you that if anybody calls you names and emotionally blackmails you because you do not want to do something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever had “the abuse conversation” with your mother? Has she ever said to you that if anybody touches your “intimate parts,” it is called abuse and it is not acceptable? Has she ever told you that if anybody calls you names and emotionally blackmails you because you do not want to do something they asked you to, it is also a form of abuse? Most chances are that the answer is no. The reason for this silence is very simple: we are not brought up this way. When you grow up in a society where the man is powerful and the woman is a slave to his wishes, it is very normal to not have these conversations, let alone to know the meaning of the word “abuse”.</p>
<p>Men allow themselves to take such actions because they think that women are here to satisfy their fantasies. They fantasize about lesbian sex, and in their minds, women are not feeling pleasure when touching each other, they are only doing so to boost the men’s excitement, to obey their orders, to do as they say, when they say it. Abusers do not realize the damages they can cause to their victims. They do not realize that what they are doing is ruining lives and making it even harder to have a normal lifestyle.</p>
<p>What I am about to say, I have never said before. I used to be a victim of sexual abuse.</p>
<p>At the age of 8, I was abused by the son of my parents’ colleague. To describe it would be too graphic. What I am going to say is that it was brought to me as a game; but when I said that I wanted it to stop, the guy told me that if I made a sound, he would hit me, and if I talked about it, I would die. I cried waterfalls while trying not to make a sound. When he was done, I just ran away. At that age, you manage to put it away in the back of your mind and forget it ever happened. You go on with your life as normal as any child.</p>
<p>At the age of 11-12, I was once again abused. This time, by a friend’s father. That’s when things went bad for me. I remembered the earlier incident, I became really depressed, I became suicidal, I cut myself, and I stopped talking to everybody. I felt that it was all my fault, I felt disgusted, I felt dirty, no matter how many showers I took.</p>
<p>My only fault was not talking about it to my parents.</p>
<p>Things took a turn when I decided to prove to myself that not all guys are like this. I started becoming friends with them; I even became one of the “boys”. Girls envied the relation I had with guys; I was not intimidated by them, if anything, they were intimidated by me. They saw that, not only was I a part of their gang, but I was also very independent. I didn’t need them to protect me and it scared them.</p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago, I was on a bus and a guy was sitting next to me. At some point, he took his d*** out of his pants, covered it with his jacket, stood up, pretended to close the window, and shoved it in my face. I started shouting at him, while still being polite. His face turned green, purple, and blue. He was so embarrassed that he stepped off the bus. If that were to happen to me a couple of years ago, my reaction would have been totally different.</p>
<p>If you are reading this and you have been in a similar situation, you have to keep in mind that you ARE NOT responsible for what happened to you. You did not bring it upon yourself. You can come out of it as strong as a rock, like I did. Do not be a victim all your life. The sooner you realize that it was not your fault, the sooner you will be able to free yourself from this weight. Let it make you stronger, because it can, and in a very powerful way.</p>
<p><em>- Contributed by Rhea</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[لحظة تأتيني، حاضنة كلّ ما في القلب من أحزان
محوّلة السيطرة على العقل شيئا مستحيلا
تصبح الأعصاب نارا تطلق كالرصاص
فيها تتحوّل جميع الآلام المنسيّة ﺇلى غضب ساطع
شيء صغير يتحوّل ﺇلى مشهد سينمائي عظيم
أحتمل وأصبر
أحبس الهمّ في سجني
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<p style="text-align: center;" dir="rtl"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">لحظة تأتيني، حاضنة كلّ ما في القلب من أحزان&#8230;<br />
محوّلة السيطرة على العقل شيئا مستحيلا&#8230;<br />
تصبح الأعصاب نارا تطلق كالرصاص&#8230;<br />
فيها تتحوّل جميع الآلام المنسيّة ﺇلى غضب ساطع&#8230;<br />
شيء صغير يتحوّل ﺇلى مشهد سينمائي عظيم&#8230;<br />
أحتمل وأصبر&#8230;<br />
أحبس الهمّ في سجني&#8230;<br />
لعل السوط يذوب والأبواب تفتح&#8230;<br />
وأنتظر ذاك اليوم المشؤوم ليفجّر ذاك الألم الذي يكوي&#8230;<br />
لحظة تأتيني بالجنون&#8230;<br />
فتصبح أفعالي أفعال ولد سُرقت ألعابه، فضرب بدل البكاء&#8230;<br />
أنا طائشة؟ مجنونة؟ مختلّة؟<br />
لا&#8230;و لكنّ الحياة تملأ قلبي هموما، و لابدّ له أن ينحني&#8230;<br />
ما عدت أشكو حزنا و لا دمعا!<br />
بل أشكو اختناقا و قهرا!<br />
دمار روحٍ احتُرقت من هراء وتخلّف البشر&#8230;<br />
يرفعون الرشاشات والخناجر&#8230;<br />
فأصرخ كفى!!<br />
فتصرّح أيديهم  ببراءة ضحيّة&#8230;<br />
وتُحكم كلمتي بأحكام مجرمة&#8230;<br />
آه كم أشفق عليك يا حياة&#8230;<br />
يا براءة المساجين وحريّة المجرمين&#8230;<br />
أوراقك أصبحت وسخة ومبللة&#8230;<br />
وصفحاتك ضائعة&#8230;<br />
و أصبحت سطورك لعب على الكلام وتحوير&#8230;<br />
لا مقدّمة لك ولا &#8220;آخرة&#8221;&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Contributed by PJM</em></span></p>
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