In 1998, there was an operetta titled The Arab Dream, and ten years later comes a work of grand proportion, an operetta titled The Arab Conscience (Al Dhareem Al Arabi) which features 106 Arab artists and singers, and the length of which is over 40 minutes long and it is one continuous song. It's a great musical achievement as it is an anti-war and anti-violence message as well. It covers events that have occurred in the Arab world between 1998 and 2008: 9/11 attacks, Danish cartoons, Israel/Lebanon/Palestine, Desert Fox, Sharon entrance to Al-Haram Al-Qudsi and the second Intifada, war on Iraq, Kenya and Tanzania bombings, bombings of southern Lebanon, war on terror, resistance, world peace, terrorism, Arabism, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, turning ethnic groups against each other, civil wars, the Arab Dream operetta, the separation wall in the Palestinian territories, Golan Heights, Abu Ghraib prison, human rights, democracy, and more.
You can find the operetta in its entirety here with English subtitles, and you can find more information on the operetta here and here.
Below is a portion of the operetta (WARNING: contains some graphic violent content).
This part of the video covers the shelling of south Lebanon by Israel (Oct. 1999), resistance in Lebanon, the withdraw of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon (May 1999), the liberation of southern Lebanon; Ariel Sharon’s controversial visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Intifada which followed (Sept. 2000), the murder of Mohammad Al-Durra (a fifth-grader killed during the Intifada; Sept. 2000); the Arab Dream operetta; 9/11; Guantanamo Bay (Nov. 2001); the “massacre” or “battle” of Jenin (a Palestinian refugee camp) (Apr. 2002); the throwing of stones and the treatment of Palestinians by Israel.
Among the singers in the video clip are Lebanese artist, Nancy Ajram; Algerian rai artist, Cheb Khaled; Egyptian singers, Shireen, Amal Maher, Khaled Selim; Tunisian singer Saber Al-Rubai; Iraqi artist, Reda Al-Abdullah; Bahraini singer Ahlam; Palestinian singer, Diana Karazon; and Kuwaiti artist, Abdullah Al-Ruwaished.
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