The controversy over the true author of the poem has resumed.We will come back one day“, which she sang Turquoise The year is 1956, and it is sometimes suggested that it was composed by the late Palestinian poet Harun Hashim RashidAt other times, he confirms that it is By the Rahbani brothers Blood and flesh, and perhaps the reason for the renewal of this controversy is the recall of all the works that sang praises of Palestine against the backdrop of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, including the song “We Will Return to Our Neighborhood One Day,” in addition to what was made most memorable by the rediscovery of a song that he almost folded. Forgetting the musician Mohamed Fawzy He submitted it in 1956, and its title concerns the Palestinian issue “You’ll come back again” or “Hymn of Return” Written by Haroun Hashim Rashid himself (see Al-Modon on Saturday 11/04/2023)
Rediscovering a song, and this may have sparked controversy – the first thing that began – when the writer and researcher pointed out Knight Joachim In his book “Song Stories” Issued in 2013 by Dar Riad Al-Rayes, it was stated that Fayrouz’s song is not one of Rashid’s poems, but rather one of the words and melodies of the Rahbani brothers, and he followed this up with a host of evidence and proofs, the researcher Mahmoud Al-Zebawi in an article published in “Al-Modon” in the year 2016, and then the dispute reached its climax with the departure Harun Hashim Rashid On the twenty-seventh of July 2020, and the obituary articles published in his farewell and eulogies.
(Harun Hashim Rashid)
What is striking about this debate over that Turquoise song is that it was mostly between a group of Lebanese and Palestinian writers and researchers, even though the song was recorded in Cairo in November 1956 with a group of other songs at the invitation of the Egyptian radio station Ahmed Saeed, director of Sawt Al Arab radio. “At that time, and therefore, the Egyptian radio may have certain news and the matter will be over.
The data mentioned on the tape recording the song, as well as in the paper notebooks that I reviewed myself, as well as in the electronic record of the air studios, says that the song “We Will Return One Day to Our Neighborhood,” sung by Fairouz, was written and composed by the Rahbani brothers, and lines away from this statement there is another line on which it was recorded. Data for the song “With Ghuraba” was written by Haroun Hashim Rashid, composed by the Rahbani brothers, and sung by Fairouz. I recorded it at a time close to the other song, but I was not able to view the recording tape of the song “With Ghuraba” on which was written the full recording date of the poem taken from the first collection of the Palestinian poet published in Cairo in 1954. Accordingly, according to the recording data of the song in Egypt at the time of its recording, where there is no room for diligence, weak memory, or slander, there is no connection between Harun Hashim Rashid and the song “We Will Return to Our Neighborhood One Day.” The interesting thing is that, for further investigation, I resorted to the Society of Authors and Composers in Cairo, and I was surprised that the song was not mentioned in the association’s records, neither on paper nor electronically. When I asked its official to return to the association’s main headquarters in Paris (SASIM), he came back and assured me that there was no mention of the song in the records either. The association in the French capital, and he justified this by saying that it might have been recorded under another name in Cairo and Paris. When I asked him: So as long as this is the case, to whom do the rights to public performance of this song belong? It occurred to me that the distribution of public performance rights to all authors and composers is proportional and not for each song alone, which means that the heirs of the Rahbani brothers receive public performance rights in a definite amount for their total singing production, while Haroun Hashim Rashid hardly mentions what his heirs receive.
She previously attended a poetry evening at the Cairo International Book Fair during the first Palestinian Intifada, and her guest was Harun Hashim RashidHe was presented as the author of the song “We Will Return to Our Neighborhood One Day,” which Fayrouz praised, and the man did not comment in denial or confirmation, a position that was repeated with him on many occasions, even when the book “The Voice and the Echo” was published in 2009, which included the poem “We Will One Day Return to “Our Neighborhood” is attributed to him even though he was not the collector of these poems himself, but rather it is a tribute effort on the part of the Syrian General Book Authority.
And there is TFrankly attributed to the Lebanese poet Talal Haiderwho was close to the Rahbani experience, says that Rashid chose the idea and wrote the beginning of the poem, then the Rahbani brothers completed it. Perhaps this explains Rashid’s feeling that he had at least some moral rights in the poem, and it also explains why the Rahbani refrained from commenting on this controversial issue, and in my opinion that The concern of returning to Palestine, which dominated the entire poetic experience of Haroun Rashid (the poet of the return), is the one who cast his shadow at the beginning of Fairouz’s song, while those contemplating the rest of the song’s words realize that they do not belong neither to his linguistic lexicon nor to his poetic taste. I do not think that Rashid is known. With the sharpness of his vocabulary and the directness of his images Graphics He says:
We will return, the nightingale told me the morning after we met on a stoop
That the bulbul is still there, living in our poetry
There is still a place for us between the hills of nostalgia and the people of nostalgia
Oh my heart, how many winds have driven us away. Come, we will return. Let us go.
These are the same vocabulary and images that were subsequently repeated in many of the Rahbani brothers’ poems.
As for the source of all this controversy over the sung poem, it goes back – in my belief – in addition to the silence of its parties or their laxity in commenting on it, and goes back to the Palestinians themselves dealing with the poem or receiving it, even though its words are suitable for expressing longing to return to the homeland, that is, a homeland. Without mentioning the word Palestine or what refers to it, according to what Mahmoud Al-Zibawi argued, which is a psychological aspect that can be understood by some researchers. For example, the Palestinian writer says Youssef Al-Shayeb in An article by him (Al-Ayyam, 7/28/2020) The day after the death of the Palestinian poet, Assi and Mansour, when they went to Egypt in 1955, chose three poems from the poetry of Harun Hashim Rashid: “With strangers, we will return one day,” and “The Bridge of Return,” while the Palestinian critic spoke at length. Faisal Darraj In the version titled “A country called Fayrouz” About the psychological and national impact that Fairouz’s song “We Will Return to Our Neighborhood One Day” had on him, which was his starting point in entering the world of the great singer. A singing album was also released in 1971 under the title “Jerusalem in mind” It included all of Fayrouz’s songs about Palestine, such as: Zahrat al-Mada’in, Old Jerusalem, Seif Fleshahr, Beisan, Haifa, Another Day Gone, and We Will Return One Day to Our Neighborhood, indicating that they belong to the poetry of the Palestinian cause, and in any case it is the album whose data stated that all His songs were written by the Rahbani brothers, with the exception of “Saif Fleishehr”, which was written by Said AklWhat confirms that “We Will Return One Day” is not by Harun Hashim Rashid.
