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"Mawṭinī" (Arabic: موطني, lit. 'My Homeland') is an Arabic national poem by the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, composed by the Lebanese musician Mohammed Flayfel in 1934, and is a popular patriotic song among the Arab people, and the official national anthem of the Republic of Iraq.
"Mawtini" was composed by Lewis Zanbaka and was originally adopted as Iraq's national anthem in 1958. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a short instrumental composition, having no lyrics. [ 1 ] " Mawtini" was used as the national anthem of Iraq until 1965; it was readopted in 2003 for a short time after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime.
1983 performance 1985 performance. It was adopted in 1981, written by Shafiq al-Kamali [2] (who died in 1984) with music by Walid Georges Gholmieh. [3]The lyrics make mention of important people in Iraqi history, such as Saladin, Harun al-Rashid, and al-Muthanna ibn Haritha, with the last verse extolling Ba'athism.
David "Dudu" Tassa (Hebrew: דודו טסה; born February 10, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, [1] singer, songwriter and record producer. Besides having had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al ...
The album contains two war protest songs: "Long Dark Night" and "I Can't Take It No More", both of which speak out against the Bush administration and the Iraq War. [2] The latter song contains a lyric that refers to one of his hits with CCR, by referring to Bush as a "Fortunate Son". [2] Also, this song sounds like Ramones-style punk rock.
Pesnya goda (Russian: Песня года), meaning Song of the Year, is an annual televised music festival and gala in Russia, honoring standout songs from the previous year. The event began in the Soviet period, and prior to the dissolution of the USSR also included songs in languages other than Russian.
The Transnistrian anthem was created with the music of Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, and the words of Boris Parmenov, Nicholas Bozhko and Vitaly Pishchenko.. According to law, it must be performed in accordance with the approved musical version and text; other musical editions and translations of it are not considered to be the national anthem of Transnistria.
The Village Voice called the song an "attempt to tie together the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war," [11] The Los Angeles Times said the song has a "pro-war call to action," [12] and The Chicago Tribune said the song "essentially reads like a Bush position paper for entering Iraq with guns blazing."