1975 = 2002 = 2009 = ?@#$@35!!!

Same Old Story
envoyé par jamsoun

وحدك يا رودولف

Ennejma Ezzahra
envoyé par jamsoun

the bottom line

pas de doute, la decadence dans le monde va s'accelerer sur tous les niveaux, on le voit, on le lit et on le vit au quotidien seulement les bons gens continueront a exister, pas beaucoup mais ils seront la quelque part, heureux est celui qui pourra reussir a en trouver quelques uns et nouer une relation/amitie a vie. Voyager est a ce sens une chance, avoir un ou deux bons amis dans son pays natal en plus de la famille, garder une commnication intense et changer de gens au fil du voyage tout en reperant ces "perles cachees".

Une seule condition: il faut s'installer pour une periode assez longue lors de chaque passage et ne plus voir et mediter comme un touriste.

La tour d'ivoire vient just de se transformer d'un edifice vetical en un autre spherique : elle est dorenavant tout le globe.

على ذكر الاخ بارت للانتخابات

علي النعمة الواد ده لقطة ومزاجه عالي اوي اوي

Anouar Brahem Week - Zarabanda , Album: Le Voyage De Sahar (2006) ; Halfaouine en Bonus!

Zarabanda


Halfaouine



J'espére que vous vous avez régalé tout au long de cette semaine. Le choix était d'un morceau de chaque album. Parfois c'était un casse tête vu la haute qualité et la finesse des morceaux d'un même album. Y a encore beaucoup plus dans la carquois de Brahem. J'encourage ceux qui le peuvent de se procurer ses CDs en ligne ou dans les stores. C'est une véritable fierté et une contribution distinguée au patrimoine musical mondial.

Anouar Brahem Week - Conte de l'Incroyable Amour, Album: Conte de l'Incroyable Amour (1992)

Anouar Brahem Week - Blue Jewels , Album: Astrakan Café (2001)

في الغرفة اللي هي مجانبة البحر

Jomhouriya
envoyé par jamsoun

Anouar Brahem Week - La Nuit Des Yeux, Album: Barzakh (1991)

Anouar Brahem Week - E La Nave Va, Album: Khomsa (1995)

Anouar Brahem Week - Sull Lull, Album: Madar (1994)

Anouar Brahem Week - Mazad, Album: Thimar (1998)

Anouar Brahem Week - C'est d'ailleurs, Album: Le Pas du Chat Noir (2002)

7 little things about Slaim

Answering the call of my buddy Tarek, here are 7/11/1987 Euh 7 things about me

1. I always stir my pot CCW 'cos I'm a leftie.

2. I come originally from the town of Grombalia (Nabeul) which dates back to the Roman era in Tunisia. Grombalia finds its name root in Colombaria or "the Refuge of the Doves", which it was indeed after the flocks of migrating birds resting there on their way from Europe to Africa and back. This town has a very apparent Italian (and not French) influence since as everyone knows it was (and still is) famous for its grapes. This influence might explain why I consider myself the child of la Rai Uno and not Antenne 2 and why I always wanted to get married with Rafaella Carra. Seeing my prospective bride when I grew up a bit later made me dispose of the idea altogether.

3. One of the worst things you can do to me is asking me in a not-so-very-very-very-gentle-way to lower the volume when I'm in heaven with music. I'll just wish you Death.

4. I was missed twice when I was a kid and that was during the night. Luckily, each time a neighbor of ours found me wandering alone in the night as if it was a leisure tour 5 minutes from home (I was like 4 or 5). My parents never understood how I managed to unlock the doors and sneak out without making any noise. That might also explain my wanderlust now.

5. I spent most of my early childhood in the kitchen playing with my mom's pots and utensils. Many pictures depict my love with the wooden spoon. One other notable fact is that I ate stealthily a lot of garlic and onions. Mum was always missing the ones she peeled for lunch/dinner. She ultimately found out and let me carry on with my hobby.

6. I love bor3'ol, Klem Ellil, Bamabalouni, the music of Anour Brahem, Nasreddine Ben Mokhtar, La Marsa and Carthage (especially Dermech), reading the modern Tunisian history, women who still wear Essefsari, women knitting whenever they had a little opportunity to do it whether at home, in the bus or waiting rooms and quite recently I started really appreciating cooking.

7. One thing I wished I had done but hadn't was to learn a handicraft. I wanted to be an amateur carpenter but my uncle (a carpenter himself told me that I had no future 'cos I was a leftie and that all cutting machines were devised for right-handed people which gave me some sanctity at least :)). Still I regret not having mastered any of the many crafts our country boasts.

8. Since number 7 gives me the goose bumps for an obvious reason, let me go beyond the 7 LTAS: I hate all 7-11 gas stations, they're ubiquitous here just like back home (although back home they are no longer gas stations but something utterly different).

9. My nicknames sweep a quite wide spectrum: From Slaim and Salloum to Slouma via Silimane El Badry

10. It might be funny but a second thing I didn't manage to "taste" is that candy sold in weekly markets. We call it "Dabbouz El 3'ool". Buying me one of those was for my parents out of the question since they simply deemed it too dirty and dusty. I'm still curious how that thing would taste.

الجرجار

على آذاكا انحبو تونس الولادة و الجيابة واللي هي لا زين لا عمر اما احنا الكل

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envoyé par jamsoun

Been There, Seen That, Liked It & Here It Is...

Legacy & Hope

Mokhtar Latiri
envoyé par Walid-D

السكوت النبوت

Parce que modernite ne doit pas rimer necessairement avec decadence...

Extrait d'Itineraire, Alia Babbou, Edition Appolinaire, 2003

Hazzen Wnafdhan....

- brabbi 9olli, ya5i ach bih il 3amal issiyasi fi tounes i9tasar 3la tasfeef issafia wissabrine w7attan inapettes lo5dhor wil 7mor 3attwawel? brabbi kifech bach nit9admou hakka bin il omam il 7ayya bissifa hathi?
- ti 7atta enti! ti maw waja3alna mina al ma2i kolla chay2in 7ayya 3ad

- I don't even want to blink lest I lose a fraction of time admiring you.
- Or9od or9od wyezzi bla...tma5weer

- leech beta e-mailek 3anni
- ya tla3 spam ya min 7ibech na7ki m3ak il yoom wenti i5tar

- ana in3'ar 3lik minnesma ittayra
- ayya mela tir min 9oddami lan3ayyatlek Mostpha 5ouya ynaffa5lek 3inik

- Can we meet tonight at the 5th Av. & 58 St
- la la 3'adika il boulisiyya bil7sonyya

- awa marra choftek fiha incit ismi jimla wa7da
- yodh'orli ken timechi it3addi 5ir, surement 3andek Alzeihmer, houwa 7atta 3inik m7aw9a et wijhek killimouna, rabbi yfarrej 3lik w5ayy

- ana ma3'room bik fou9 matitsawer, yomkon 7atta akther chwayya mil mowadhfine il ma3'roomine birrbo3 djej hallayamat
- da 3la lounek, tchouf fiyya zder wf5adh sara inti?
- ti ana inmout 3lik lil3ankouch
- chayya fi kibdtek wkasra fi jwan7ek mela

- wouh wana nardha 3'ir ibtounciyya? a5tak mil gwerra ya weldi
- trah kifech?
- ti imass5ine wyams7ou bil ka3'eth wmay7okkouch bil kasa kifna fil 7ammam
- yezzini 3aychek bla "Kacisme" 3ad
- ti eyy kima in9ollok, ti mela ken majawch akkaka, mela lweh sammaw sa9ihom "feet" ti maw mintounia allahouma 7fadhna (feet feet)

- sab3a altaf, sab3a altaf ya o5ti mabrouka, sma3t ib foulana ach 3amlet il rajilha?
- ach 3amlet zeda, na3rafha m9ajwla witnajjem ta3mel libtit
- may kachkchitlou fil Fanta! 9allek hazzouh lisbitar kchakchou 5arja t9ool zawra mat5achlech liha sitta snine!
- ti mouch fi beli bih mayochrob ken il bouga cidre houwa?

- ana ittofla illi bach na5ouha lazemha itkoun mitfatt7a wmegdiyya wmartouba wmetsam7a, ti7taramni wit7ebbni lithati wtot9on 3ala il a9all tlatha lou3'at 7ayya
- barra 5ou il omam il moutta7da mela

- asma3 ya weld innas, min tawa ken bach it7ill fommok wtis2elni 3al wa9t walla ta7kili 3atta9s, madhmedh min tawa, ana manich mte3 hatha jit juste bach nochrob 9ahwa wnemchi 3la rou7i
- 3'alit fi rou7ek 5ouya d'ailleurs nis5aybek a5 7abbit notlbok fi sigarou! 3ala 9illet libnet fil bled itt7ebna narmiw smititna 3ala man habba wadabba, malla!

- achismek o5ti
- nayzek
- chniyya hal ism hatha? awal marra nasma3 bih
- 3leh mata3refch nayzak issili7dar mte3 layali il 7elmiyya
- illi howa nayzak walla chihab, il kollha asami, il fayda fil ardhiyya wil jaw mouch fil 9ichra

- ya5i brabbi 9olli, ach bi sbabet tounes ibkollha tadhreb, illi hatha 9admou 3liha fasma!
- mais c'est normal! a7na omma ya ba3nak dharba fil "9idam"

mo9tabass (bitasarrof) 3an "klem ellil" litaoufi9 jebali wa "Bagla liha" linasreddine ben mo5tar

Compound Adjective

Montfleury, 1999

Seance mte3 Anglais issibt sbe7, il 7al romdhan

- gimme some examples of compound adjectives and I don't wanna the Blue eyed girl example please (nitfakker la prof konna imsamminha Symetrie Spherique!)

ayya koll wa7ed i5ammem, wa7ed bleed itfakkar 3'onnaya min groupo il moufadhal witla3 bil exemple hatha



- sa77itek si echbeb wsa77a chribtek zada!! mani9oltolkom man7ibech 7aja fiha girl!

( athaka 7add al 5ayal allah ghaleb )...

الرياضة حكاية فارغة

كيما السيدا حكاية فارغة زادة الرياضة حكاية فارغة

iBush

على الوتر الحساس

Ravi Shankar - Sitar and indian music
envoyé par MELMOTH

يزي مالبكاء مش انتوما برك زدتوا على ما وصاووه راكم

Holocaust Remembrance:
What's Behind the Campaign?

Since the late 1970s “Holocaust Remembrance” has become ever more important in the United States and many other countries. The campaign to remember the Holocaust -- often defined as the genocidal killing of six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War – includes numerous commemorative events, education courses in many schools, and a stream of motion pictures, television specials, books and magazine articles.

Across the United States, prominent political and civic leaders participate in annual Holocaust commemoration ceremonies. A number of countries, including Britain, Germany and Italy, officially observe a yearly Holocaust Remembrance Day. In November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution introduced by Israel to designate January 27 as an international Holocaust remembrance day.

Every major American city has at least one Holocaust museum or memorial. Worldwide there are more than 250 Holocaust museums and memorials, most of them in the US and Europe. [1] The largest is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, which is run by a taxpayer-funded federal government agency, and draws some two million visitors yearly.

The public is continually reminded of Jewish suffering during World War II. Between 1989 and 2003 alone, more than 170 films with Holocaust themes were made. [2] In many American and European schools, and in all Israeli classrooms, a focus on the wartime suffering of Europe's Jews is obligatory. [3]

Yehuda Bauer, a prominent Holocaust specialist who is a professor at Hebrew University in Israel, observed in 1992: “Whether presented authentically or inauthentically, in accordance with the historical facts or in contradiction to them, with em­pathy and understanding or as monumental kitsch, the Holocaust has become a ruling symbol of our culture… Hardly a month passes without a new TV production, a new film, a number of new books of prose or poetry dealing with the subject, and the flood is increasing rather than abating.” [4]

Tim Cole, a history professor and prominent specialist of Holocaust studies, writes in his book Selling the Holocaust: “From a relatively slow start, we have now come to the point where Jewish culture in particular, and Western culture more generally, are saturated with the 'Holocaust’. Indeed, the ‘Holocaust’ has saturated Western culture to such an extent that it appears not only centre stage, but also lurks in the background. This can be seen in the remarkable number of contemporary movies which include the 'Holocaust’ as plot or sub-plot.” [5]

How did the Holocaust come to play such a large role in America? “A good part of the answer,” writes Jewish scholar Peter Novick, “is the fact… that Jews play an important and influential role in Hollywood , the television industry, and the newspaper, magazine and book publishing worlds.” Anyone who denies that this is a major factor behind the “massive attention” given to the Holocaust in the US media, he adds, “is being naïve or disingenuous.” [6]

Exploiting the Holocaust

What’s behind the Holocaust remembrance campaign? Whose interests does it serve?

It is, of course, fitting and proper to remember victims of genocide, war and oppression. But Holocaust remembrance is not, as its supporters claim, a noble effort motivated by sincere concern for humanity. Instead, this relentless campaign is an expression of Jewish-Zionist power, and is designed to further Jewish-Zionist interests.

On the occasion of the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Mall in Washington, noted Jewish author Melvin Jules Bukiet called the Museum a “statement of raw power,” and added: “It’s not Jewish tragedy that’s remembered on the Mall this week; it’s Jewish power to which homage is paid.” [7]

The Holocaust Remembrance campaign encourages sympathy and support for Jews and Israel. It helps to justify America's massive and on-going support for Israel, and to excuse otherwise inexcusable policies of the Zionist state. Among Jews it strengthens a feeling of group solidarity and promotes a sense of community purpose.

Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who teaches at DePaul University in Chicago, writes in his bestselling book, The Holocaust Industry, that “invoking The Holocaust” is “a ploy to delegitimize all criticism of Jews.” He adds: “By conferring total blamelessness on Jews, the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American Jewry from legitimate censure... Organized American Jewry has ex­ploited the Nazi holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel's and its own morally indefensible policies.” [8]

Paula Hyman, a professor of modern Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: “With regard to Israel, the Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress debate; it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered people who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the suffering endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place of rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy of current Israeli government policy.” [9]

This view is echoed by another Jewish scholar, Tony Judt, who is director of the Remarque Institute at New York University: [10]

“The Shoah [Hebrew term for Holocaust] is frequently exploited in America and Israel to deflect and forbid any criticism of Israel . Indeed, the Holocaust of Europe's Jews is nowadays exploited thrice over: It gives American Jews in particular a unique, retrospective ‘victim identity’; it allows Israel to trump any other nation's sufferings (and justify its own excesses) with the claim that the Jewish catastrophe was unique and incompa­rable; and (in contradiction to the first two) it is adduced as an all-purpose metaphor for evil -- anywhere, everywhere and always -- and taught to schoolchildren all over America and Europe without any reference to context or cause. This modern instrumentalization of the Holocaust for political advantage is ethically disreputable and politically imprudent.”

In Israel, says Tom Segev, a prominent Israeli journalist and author, the Holocaust has become “an object of worship.” Moreover, he writes, “the 'heritage of the Holocaust,’ as it is taught in [Israel’s] schools and fostered in national memorial ceremonies, often encourages insular chauvinism and a sense that the Nazi extermination of the Jews justifies any act that seems to contribute to Israel’s security, including the oppression of the population in the territories occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War.” [11]

Amira Hass, an award-winning Israeli journalist and author, is even more blunt. Writing in a leading Israeli daily paper, she says: [12]

"… Israel has turned the liquidation of Europe's Jews into an asset. Our murdered relatives are being enlisted to enable Israel to continue not giving a damn about international decisions against the occupation. The suffering our parents endured in the ghettoes and concentration camps that filled Europe, the physical and mental anguish and torment that our parents were subjected to every single day since the `liberation,’ are used as weapons to thwart any international criticism of the society we are creating here. This is a society with built-in discrimination on the basis of nationality, and the discrimination is spreading on either side of the Green Line. This is a society that is systematically continuing to banish the Palestinian nation from its land and usurp its rights as a nation and its chances for a humane future."

The great lesson of the Holocaust, says Israel prime minister Ariel Sharon, is that Jews must “always remain vigilant and trust no one but ourselves. Jews can only rely on themselves.” Young Jews, he adds, “have the duty to bequeath the lesson, memories and stories, to underscore the importance of the existence of the Jewish state.” [13]

No Similar Remembrance of Non-Jews

Non-Jewish victims of genocide, oppression and war do not merit the same consideration as do Jewish victims of the Holocaust. There are no comparable museums, memorials or solemn ceremonies to commemorate, for example, the vastly greater number of victims of Soviet and Chinese Communism.

As historians acknowledge, the non-Jewish victims of Soviet Russian dictator Joseph Stalin greatly outnumber the Jews who perished as a result of Hitler’s policies. Robert Conquest, a prominent scholar of twentieth century Russian history, estimates the number of those who lost their lives as a consequence of Stalin’s policies as “no fewer than 20 million.” [14] Authoritative estimates of the number of Chinese who perished as victims of killings, repression, starvation and forced labor under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong range from about 30 million to more than 60 million. [15]

Americans are trained and encouraged to “know” that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis in World War II. But few Americans, even well-educated ones, have any idea of how many Russians, Poles, Chinese or even Americans lost their lives in that global conflict. Estimates of the number of Chinese who lost their lives as direct and indirect victims of Japanese aggression and occupation during the 1930s and 1940s range from about ten million to more than twice that number. The Chinese government has put the figure at 35 million. [16]

During the years 1885 through 1908, an estimated five to eight million Africans perished in the Congo as direct and indirect victims of the brutal policies of the Belgian colonial authorities. These deaths were the result of widespread killings, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. [17]

'Holocaust Denial' Laws

In some countries special “Holocaust denial” laws stifle free and objective discussion of the Holocaust issue. In Israel, Germany, France, Austria and a few other nations, it is a crime publicly to “play down,” dispute, “whitewash,” or “deny” the Holocaust. No other chapter of history is protected by law in this way. Even factually accurate statements that violate “Holocaust denial” laws are punished. Over the years, many individuals in those countries have been fined, imprisoned or forced into exile for disputing Holocaust claims.

'God's Chosen'

The Holocaust is often treated with reverence, and as a central event of world history. For many Jews, says Rabbi Michael Goldberg, a Jewish author and religious leader, the “veneration” of the Holocaust has become a new religion. “And as with any organized church,” he adds, “this Holocaust cult has its own tenets of faith, rites, and shrines.” [18]

The Holocaust remembrance campaign reflects an arrogant view of Jews as a special and superior people. Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League -- one of the most influential Zionist groups — has declared: “...The Holocaust is something different. It is a singular event. It is not simply one example of genocide but a near successful attempt on the life of God's chosen children and, thus, on God himself. It is an event that is the antithesis of Creation as recorded in the Bible; and like its direct op­posite, which is relived weekly with the Sabbath and yearly with the Torah, it must be remembered from generation to gen­eration.” [19]

Jewish death and suffering do not deserve to be venerated more than the death and suffering of non-Jews. The Holocaust remembrance campaign deserves scorn, not support, because it is a one-sided effort that serves narrow Jewish and Israeli interests and bolsters Jewish-Zionist power.



Notes

1. A. Barkat, “Yad Vashem Was the First, And Now It’s The Latest,” Haaretz (Israel), March 15, 2005
( http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/552062.html ).

2. D. Sterritt, “The one serious subject Hollywood doesn’t avoid,” The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 22, 2002 ( http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1122/p13s01-almo.html ).

3. Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston: 1999), p. 207.

4. Quoted in: David Cesarani, ed., The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (Routledge, 1994), pp. 305, 306.

5. Tim Cole, Selling the Holocaust (Routledge, 2000), p. 2.

6. P. Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (1999), p. 207. See also pp. 11-12, 208.

7. Melvin Jules Bukiet, “The Museum vs. Memory: The Taming of the Holocaust,” The Washington Post, Sunday, April 18, 1993, p. C3. Quoted in: P. Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (1999), p. 330, n. 104.

8. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (Verso, 2003), pp. 37, 52, 149.

9. Paula E. Hyman, “New Debate on the Holocaust,” The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79.

10. Tony Judt, “Goodbye To All That?,” The Nation (New York), Jan. 3, 2005, p. 17.

11. Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: 1993), pp. 513, 517.

12. Amira Hass, ”Using the Holocaust to ward off criticism,” Haaretz (Israel), March 16 (or 21?), 2005.

13. Leonard Fein, “Too Young to March?,” Forward (New York), May 13, 2005, p. 8; "Israel marks Auschwitz liberation,” BBC News, Jan. 27, 2005 ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4212079.stm );
"Sharon: Never Forget Nazi Killers,” CNN News, May 6, 2005
(http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/05/holocaust.day/ ).

14. R. Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Oxford Univ. Press, 1990), p. 48.

15. S. Courtois, and others, The Black Book of Communism (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 4, 463-464; D. Southerland, “Repression’s Higher Toll,” The Washington Post, July 17, 1994, pp. A1, A22, A 23; Richard L. Walker, The Human Cost of Communism in China. A study of the Committee on the Judiciary, US Senate (1971).

16. “Dispute over mission stalls Japanese war museum,” The Palm Beach Post, May 21, 1995, p. 22A (from The New York Times); Sam Jameson, “WWII Apology Fails to Find a Voice in Japan ,” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1995, p. A12.

17. Adam Hochschild, “In the Heart of Darkness,” The New York Review of Books, October 6, 2005, pp.
39-42; Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 1999); A. Roxburgh, “Belgians Confront Colonial Past,” BBC News, March 9, 2005 ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4332605.stm ).

18. Michael Goldberg , Why Should Jews Survive? : Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), p. 41.

19. A. Foxman, “Schindler’s List – The Meaning of Spielberg’s Film,” ADL On the Frontline, January 1994, p. 2.
#2019 02/2006
About the Author

Mark Weber is director of the Institute for Historical Review. He studied history at the University of Illinois
(Chicago), the University of Munich, Portland State University and Indiana University (M.A., 1977). In March 1988 he testified for five days in Toronto District Court as a recognized expert witness on Germany's wartime Jewish policy and the Holocaust issue.

Source: http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/holocaust_remembrance.shtml

كلمات بالدارجة التونسية اعشقها بكل بساطة

زوز بمعنى ادخل مسلان لحاك للا زبيدة وللا زنيخة يشره يكب سعد العار مشروم يكبكب سقيفة جنينة مقدود كراف يبيع جروده شلاكة تبسي شكال حرج فم برغل ذراري زغزغ قايلة مقفول مغرفة لوح معكرش اخضر سريس مفلقط مقجول مطيش مفلفل كيف شهيلي لبعد بهناس تبحبيحة غمضة تعسيلة كركار ناس ملاح يبتبت برد على داه مزيان فيسع بشوية لكلاك ذميم بالشدة سفساري مخماخ فلاية يقضقض يتفتف نغار قمقوم ميزاب سبولة مشبشب فكرون دورو مترفس شهلول كبي بك زنقة معصفرة شعرها مذخم خرنان فريفطة لبلب مخدة بنينة قنطرة برمقلي مرتوب تحفون الله مصلي عالنبي

يرزيكم فيها عما قريب

Une Matinée à la Maison de Verre


Ne vous fiez pas trop au titre. J’aime cette organization tout en n'ayant pas tout le respect pour elle pour le moment. Pour moi, c’est plutôt la United Nations of America. Pourtant j’écris ces lignes en portant un T-shirt UN! C'est absurde mais mon amour vient sans respect cette fois, un respect restituable seulement avec une beaucoup plus grande autonomie et une plus ample marge de manoeuvre.


Alors le 27 Juin 2007, me voilà au First Avenue au croisement avec le 42nd Street tôt le matin comme un oiseau. J’étais en train d’attendre le tour du drapeau tunisien pour être élevé comme les quelques autres 191 drapeaux des 192 nations membres des UN. L’ordre se fait alphabétiquement donc j’avais tout le temps pour contempler les drapeaux des différents pays de A jusqu’à T tout en essayant de nommer le maximum et en ne pas manquant de repcrer le drapeau du Népal avec sa forme très particulière. Je chante "7oumat il 7ima" tandis que notre drapeau s'élève en douceur, ce qui m’a donné des frissons et une petite idée sur ce que Gammoudi a dû sentir en 1968 aux JO au Mexique).


J’étais aussi fier du fait que nous les Tunisiens parlons au moins trois langues sinon quatre des six langues officielles des UN. C’est en partie pourquoi j’aspire à ce qu’un Tunisien ou une Tunisienne tienne un jour les rennes de cet édifice international. D'ailleurs la Tunisie a récemment sacrifié l'un de ses braves fils, le Lieutenant Commandant Kamel Aouni en Septembre 2006 lors d'une mission des casques bleux au Congo.


Sans m’étaler trop, j’étais surtout excité de découvrir un peu les buildings, la salle du conseil de sécurité avec ses fameux sièges bleux en rond et surtout surtout m’offrir le livre de Boutros Boutros Ghali “Mes Années à la Maison de Verre” puisqu’il y avait un Bookstore/Gift Shop à la fin du tour guidé qui était assuré par une mignonne chinoise. Chacun devrait dire de quel pays il ou elle venait et j’avais toute la fierté du monde de prononcer Tunisia parmi Germany, Australia, Japan, Italy et tant d’autres coins du globe.

A deux reprises, j’ai failli exploser dans une crise de rires lorsque la tournure de Taoufik Jbali dans le morceau “Un Seul Peuple Ne Suffit Pas” et mentionnant De Cuellar (le Secrétaire Géneral de l’ONU de 1981 à 1992) m’a traversé subitement l’esprit dans les couloirs du fief du Ban Ki Moon ( que nous avons croisé d’ailleurs dans un meeting dans le conseil de Tutelle). Heureusement j’ai pu me retenir en souriant et en se mordant les lèvres.


Une fois le tour terminé, je me précipite vers le Bookstore pour dénicher mon bouquin. J’ai passé près d’une heure à fouiner par ci par là, j’ai demandé l’aide du staff à deux reprises, j’ai beau creusé entre les étagères, nothing, rien, nada, لا شيء.


Donc au quartier général de l’ONU, l’oeuvre d’un ex-secrétaire général de l’ONU sur l'ONU elle même est simplement...non disponible. Pire encore, les biogrpahies de Madeleine Albright, de Jimmy Carter et de Colin Powell y étaient bien présentes!!! Fallait-il crier au scandale?!!

Et cela ne peut que confirmer ma conviction que BBG est le meilleur SG de l'ONU puisqu'il a eu l'audace de dire NON.


Je me suis contenté de m’offrir un T-shirt, un Pin’s et quelques cartes postales Tunisie/ONU à défaut de mon livre “fétiche”. A la porte de sortie, je ne pouvais pas m'empêcher de grincer les dents et murmurer: يرزيكم فيها عما قريب

NB: ce poste est dédié à un certain Cheker de Sousse et qui se reconnaitra...

الحقيقة الموضوع هذا محبيتش انخوض فيه لكن ماعادش فيها توة

الحقيقة الموضوع هذا محبيتش انخوض فيه لكن ماعادش فيها توة الحقيقة اللي السبايس غيرلز هوما في الاصل ... نوابلية اي نعم الخمسة اذوكم من نابل احنا النوابلية حبينا نحكيو مع السلطة بطريقة حضارية مع المحافظة على طابعنا المفلفل والحار سميناهم البنات متاع لفاح اتنجمو تقولو كانت محاولة لضرب المشروع الساحلي او قوة بر العبيد ضد الزيتونة على كل انا اليوم باش انفسرلكم كل الرسائل الضمنية اللي وجهناها اولا في الاغنية هاذي اللي حبينا ننتقدوا فيها الرويق متاع اذا كان تحبوا المستقبل انساو الماضي متاعي ياخويا صحيح ذاكرة الشعوب ضعيفة اما زادة اعطينا طريحة كيما في 1978 ومن بعد بوس خوك هذايا يتسمى دروشة ودروشة ايا ما علينا احنا نددنا بالانحراف اللي صار في بداية التسعينات كي السلط الثلاث ولات وحدة اما بناتنا باش مايشلقوش حطوا زوز في بلاصة ثلاثة وقالو اللي ازوز ولاو واحد والفهيم يفهم مسكتناش و من حينه صحنا الي الشيء زاد على ما وصاووه لكن الاستفتاء دمر كل سبل المفاهمة واي ثقة في جدية الفرادي بكل ياس اتهكموا بناتنا بالقطعة هذه وسرعان ما الخطاب زاد اتحرحر اش اشكون تسخايب روحك يا سيد يزي فك وسيب صالح خنقدمو اد ونوليو عاد محترمين الزيت برد الحرورية على خاطر كلامك يا قرن في المعصرة زمرا اما النوابلية احنا مانتعبوش والحمامات تاعا مش متاع سوسة لذا قررنا باش نضربو من جديد ويمين البقلوطي في زريعته

A Flash Open Letter To My Blue-eyed Bro, Rita’s Youngest Uncle & the One “illi 9aherni”

Nineteen years ago, it was an “oven-ish” day and I still picture Mum holding you in her hands and me thinking: hehe cool! a second toy to play and have fun with while the one in-between was already planning how to keep the limelight “cost him what it may cost”. Man you were Google vs. Yahoo those days!

Now that I’ve seen you growing and getting the Bac and preparing yourself to go to College like a real young man, here are a few advices from the eldest who tested the waters and rolled with the punches already:

1. Have a plan and go with the things you like and you deem worth your efforts
2. We’re blessed with great parents, it’s a bounty and you should make the best out of the discussions with them
3. Join the JCI and work on your spoken English
4. Keep being interested in politics, Tunisia doesn’t just need men with good grades, it needs…MEN (and women too obviously!)
5. Just move your butt and go take that driving test for god’s sake!
6. Don't set limits, just set goals but no limits, not even the sky, fly as high as you can and then a little bit higher :) hard work pays off and again planning is key so plan and "Red Bull It" Bro!
7. Travel, travel and travel
8. Sallemli 3la Fara7 ;-)


And hey don’t believe the story that we picked you up from a trash bin, it was all unfounded :-P

Happy B-day Hassene Ibn Inno3men