Credible Lies - Faleeha Hassan 16:9
Channel: Niki Koutsoftides
Date: 2020-07-29

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The video is about the poem "Credible Lies" of the Iraq poet Faleeha Hassan. Arabs pronounce her name: Faliha! Here, you can read the poem on your own rythum:

"Oh, Faleeha 
How brilliant is your future 
I whisper in my ear 
And pat my shoulder 
Every morning 
I open my day with a big lie 
I tell myself 
Faleeha 
leave the news to the promoters of rumors 
And the houses being bombed by skilled pilots 
They will be rebuilt immediately afterward 
Leave Iraqi women to be sold in the Sbaya Bazaar in Mosul 
Mothers will give birth to other daughters nine months later 
Don’t worry about the man who sells his life for a handful of coins under the sweltering sun 
One day he will be able to get a Chinese umbrella   
Don’t worry about your niece whose face now being eaten by skin cancer 
She will get through Photoshop a wonderful picture for her profile on Facebook  
Why do you look so long at picture of your friend who is missing from Kuwait war? 
He is lucky 
He survived the darkness of grave 
Oh, Faleeha 
Leave the children of Baghdad to wake up to violent explosions 
Music is no longer fit for their mornings
Write down the martyrs names on a piece of a paper and place it in your old coat and leave it in the closet 
Or send it to the dry cleaners 
I’m tired of counting the names of the martyrs and the war never ends 
Faleeha 
Don’t plan for the future 
It is as a close as   a sniper’s bullet 
Yes, 
I open my day with a big 
Big 
Big lie 
But no lie can cover the scary truth"

Who is Faleeha Hassan?
Faleeha Hassan, a self-identified feminist poet, playwright and teacher from Najaf, Iraq. She began teaching high school in 1988. In 1991, she became the first woman in Najaf to publish a book of poetry, I Am a Girl. In 2012, she became the first woman in Iraq to publish a book of poetry for children " A Dream Guard ". She fled Iraq after her name appeared on a militant group's death list in 2011. At the same year, the civic war started in Iraq. Now, she lives in New Jersey, US.

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