Exile
A Poem
The three lines of Arabic poetry are by the well-known poet Ahmad Shawqi. Shawqi was exiled by then British occupation of Egypt, and he wrote the poem while in exile.
The three lines in rough meaning:
Would the trees where nightingales are known to sit and sing be a forbidden luxury for them while all sorts of birds are welcome?
Each home(land) is the property of its indigenous people apart from in the law (and ideology) of the colonization that stinks
If I were to be away from my homeland in Paradise, my soul would still long to go back.
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