To Her Highness with love

To Her Highness with love.. Princess of The Isle Of beauty.. To enlighten you is my duty.. They say : " Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose.. Strange!! His first sleep should be his last repose "

Homosexuality in Arabic literature 2

Abu Nuwas and Pederastic Love
Then, quite abruptly in the late eighth century, in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the newly founded capital at Baghdad, a generation of poets began to celebrate the illicit joys of wine and boys, in verses whose sparkle and charm have made the most famous of them, Abu Nuwas (died ca 815), one of the glories of Arabic literature.
The pederastic love celebrated by Abu Nuwas is of a type familiar from ancient Greece. The objects of his affection are adolescent boys, whose charms are conventionally described in terms virtually identical to those for women: wide hips, a narrow waist, languid eyes, and so forth.
The sexual goal, implicitly understood in his chaster poems but graphically described in the more licentious ones, is anal intercourse, with the poet taking the active role. The boy is presumed to submit, if he does, out of mercenary rather than sexual motives, while the poet, as penetrator in the sexual act, retains his masculinity intact.
An interest in boys was fully compatible with an interest in women, and even Abu Nuwas wrote a number of love poems directed at the latter. Besides their physical attractions, boys and women also shared a subordinate status in society; in poetry about boys this subordination is often further emphasized by making the boy a member of the lower classes, or a slave, or a Christian.
Since drinking wine is forbidden by Islam, taverns were normally run by Christians, and one of Abu Nuwas's

favorite themes is the seduction of a Christian boy serving as cupbearer during a night of revelry in one of these taverns.
Convention stated that a boy lost his allure once he became adult, the transition being marked by the growth of his beard. The first down on the cheeks was universally considered an enhancement of the boy's beauty, but also heralded its imminent termination.
This crucial transition became an extremely popular topos for poetry and soon enough generated a response defending the unspoilt beauty of a fully bearded young man. Both points of view continued to find advocates for centuries, resulting eventually in anthologies of "beard poetry" devoted exclusively to this debate.
Nevertheless, the age differential between active and passive partners in a male homosexual relation remained crucial since the sexual submission of one adult male to another was considered a repugnant idea in this society and assumed to be the result of a pathological desire to be penetrated.
The adult passive homosexual was an object of derision, and not normally a subject for poetry, an exception proving the rule being the licentious poet Jahshawayh (ninth century) who flaunted his passive homosexuality and wrote panegyrics on the penis.

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Homosexuality in Arabic Literature

Homosexuality in Arabic Middle Eastern Literature

The expression of male homoerotic sentiment is one of the dominant themes in classical Arabic literature from the ninth century to the nineteenth.
In poetry, traditionally considered the supreme art among the Arabs, love lyrics by male poets about males were almost as popular as those about females, and in certain times and places even more popular. But in prose literature as well, including such varied genres as anecdotal collections, vignettes in rhymed prose known as maqamat, shadowplays, and explicit erotica, homoerotic themes, mostly male but also female, are anything but rare.Even though homosexual behavior is condemned in the strongest terms by Islamic law, a position reiterated by numerous legal and pietistic works devoted to the subject, homoerotic love generally appears in poetry and belles lettres as a phenomenon every bit as natural as heteroerotic love and subject to the same range of treatments, from humorous to passionate.
This striking affirmation of homosexuality does not, however, go back to the earliest period of Arabic literature. In the extant poetry from the sixth, seventh, and early eighth centuries-from a generation or two before the advent of Islam through its first century-there are virtually no references to homosexuality at all.
It was during this period that love poetry developed into an independent genre, or rather two, one playful and teasing, the other, known as udhri verse, passionate and even despairing; but both were initially uniformly heteroerotic.

AL HEJAZ THE LAND OF SACRED CITIES

HEJAZ THE GEM OFARABIA

We used to say in Egypt " He traveled to Al Hejaz " meaning that someone has traveled to Mecca to practice the ritual of pilgrimage ( Al Haj ) and to Medina to visit the Mosque of the Prophet Mohammed. But what do we know about Al Hejaz ?

Hejaz is on the shores of Red Sea incorporated with Nejd; bounded N. by Syria and Jordan, E. by Nfud desert and Nejd, S. by Tehama. Is almost all stony desert. After the participation of Turkey in the First World War this region was the scene of severe and prolonged fighting. It is well known that a number of western travelers across the ages visited Al Hejaz and depicted scenes from the two sacred cities Mecca and Medina. They were disguised as Moslem pilgrims. The most famous character of them is " Laurence of Arabia ". Now the kingdom of Saudi Arabia allows people from everrywhere to visit and work in the kingdom except Mecca and Medina for those who are not Moslems.

HOW TO BE DUMB WITHOUT TOIL ?

How to be dumb without toil ?

This story is told of a young couple who had been sweethearts but had quarrelled. One day the former lover had to make a business call on the girl's father and, of course, it so happened that she answered the door. " I beg your pardon " said the young man, keeping his nerve in the trying circumstances remarkably well. " Miss Perkins, I think ? Is your father in ? " " No, he's not, I am sorry to say. Did you wish to see him personally ? " Asked the girl, without the slightest sign of recognition showing in her eyes. " Yes; but it will do tomorrow, Thank you. I will call again. Good afternoon ! " But this was too much. As he reached the bottom step the girl spoke : " Excuse me ! Who shall I say called ? "

YES, WE WILL.

YES... WE WILL..

THOSE WHO ARE REPRESENTING THE NEO BARBARIANS ARE REJOICING BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY CAN KEEP THE WARS THEY HAVE WAGED GOING ON.. THEY ENJOY WATCHING BLOOD BEING SHED... IT TURNS THEM ON TO SEE CHILDREN EVERYWHERE BEING TORTURED BY THE GHOULS OF WAR... BUT I ASSURE THEM WE WILL CRUSH THEM WITH LOVE... LOVE IS THE MAGIC WORD... WE WILL REJECT THEIR IDEAS POISNED WITH MISUNDERSTANDING AND ILL INTENTION... WE HAVE A FIRM FAIT IN LOVE AND IT WILL CURE ALL THE WOUNDS THEY CAUSED... THE DAY WILL COME AND WE WILL SEE THE PEOPLE LIKE BUSH AND BLAIR SINKING IN THE SWAMP OF HISTORY.

BRUTAL LOYALITY

BRUTAL LOYALITY

BY : Ibrahim Kamel

HARA-KIRI ( SUICIDE OF THE SAMURAI )

HARA-KIRI IS A METHOD OF SUICIDE, OBLIGATORY OR VOLUNTARY, BY DISEMBOWELMENT, PRACTISED BY THE SAMURAI CLASS IN JAPAN; LATER ADOPTED BY ALL CLASSES AS IDEAL FORM OF SELF—DESTRUCTION. IT WAS DONE BY SELF-INFLICTED CUT ACROSS THE ABDOMEN WITH A DAGGER, FOLLOWED BY A SWORD STROKE BY ANOTHER HAND WHICH SEVERED THE HEAD FROM THE BODY. AS AN OBLIGATORY ACT, ABOLISHED IN 1868. ON THE DAY OF THE JAPANESE EMPEROR’S BURIAL ( 1912 ), GENERAL NOGI AND HIS WIFE COMMITED HARA-KIRI.. CAN YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF ASKING YOUR WIFE TO COMMIT SUICIDE TOGETHER TO SHOW YOUR GRIEF AND SORROW FOR THE DEATH OF YOUR PRESIDENT, KING OR PRINCE ?

HAPPY EID, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

I WISH THE WHOLE WORLD HAPPY EID ADHA,MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.. MAY GOD GRANT ALL ADAM'S CHILDREN PEACE AND JOY AND MAKE THEM DASH SOFTLY THROUGH THE GATES AND ALLEYS OF THIER HEARTS AND SOULS AND GUIDE THEIR RULERS TO WHAT IS RIGHT AND FAIR.. AMEN.

THE MIRACULOUS LOVE

The Miraculous Love

By: Ibrahim Kamel Ahmed

Like all other prisoners, they live in cells, but the cells vary according to the status of the Prince or the Sultan, how dangerous he is and the extent of the current Sultan's rage against that prisoner.
And the degree of the prisoner's welfare varies accordingly. There were prisoners who lived with their wives and children while other prisoners were young at the time of their imprisonment but they remained in prison till they became very old men.
There were prisoners who had been Sultans one day, but they lost their posts and their minds as well; they were imprisoned in their lost past they found solace in their insanity & their hallucinations represented a source of fun for the prisoners and the guards. Life wasn't tough in the Tower Of Alexandria and it was a well-established norm for the ruling Sultan to make sure that the foods presented to the prisoners of the tower were given in abundant quantities and they had also to be the finest and most delicious foods.
In addition, the prisoners were given fruits and good wine was given to those who drink wine while hashish was given to the prisoners who were used to eat or smoke it. Moreover, they had access to entertainment shows such as shadow plays. Some of the Princes & Sultans who were imprisoned in the tower were fond of shadow plays which were presented from time to time. But magic books were prohibited for fear of using them to escape or to return to power.
The Commander of Alexandria Tower received Yashbak and accompanied him to his large luxurious cell which had a private bath, a window overlooking the sea, and very thick iron bars.
The Commander of the Tower, his assistants, and a blacksmith accompanied Prince Yashbak; the blacksmith removed his shackles, approached him in awe, and put a shackle around his right leg; the shackle was chained to a 10-rotls iron ball. The Commander said to Yashbak:
- Excuse us, Prince: we're carrying out the orders.
- Never mind. Do your job, blacksmith.

The Commander of the Tower apologized to Prince Yashbak because he had thought that the Sultan might pardon him, then he would leave the Tower and return to power and at that moment he might remember the Commander's courtesy.
Prince Yahsbak spent his time in the prison without complaining or grumbling. Some of the other prisoners visited him and he chatted with them while they were smoking the tobacco which was mixed with hashish in hookahs and no one of them bothered to talk about neither politics nor why they were imprisoned because they all shared the same destiny. The Commander of the tower brought good news to Yashbak on a sunny day: he told him that the Sultan had been kind enough to allow Yashbak's favorite female slave to visit him and to stay with him as long as she wanted to. It was the first time for Yashbak to feel that a deep sense of happiness was sweeping his heart since they had brought him to the Tower; it was as if he'd been asleep and woke up to the delightful piece of news.
He thanked the Commander of the Tower and prayed for the Sultan. The Commander excused himself saying that he had many things to do and added that he would return to him with the female salve right after her arrival. Yashbak sat at his favorite spot in front of the window, he started smoking tobacco in his hookah and gazed at the sea and its endless waves which continued to hit the rocks and make their eternal splash. Yashbak said to himself: "Thank him … he hasn't forgotten our old friendship and our recent colleagueship He knows the rules of the game & treachery is one of its rules and it's O.K. to destroy your enemy before he gets the chance to destroy you; who knows what might happen tomorrow?!"
The state of drowsiness which was generated by the hashish he had smoked swept his mind and carried his fantasies to a remote island where he was standing by the shore watching his female slave Yasmeena swimming naked & when she had came out of the sea, he was dazzled and didn't know which part of her body he should look at first. Then they sat by an apple tree & the sound of their laughs & kisses mixed with the singing of birds & the sound of the sea. He felt the coolness of the shackle which was tied around his leg and watched a flock of quails flying after the leader of the flock. He took a number of quick drags on his hookah & held them in his lungs, then he started to puff smoke towards the window & watching the smoke slipping through the window in defiance of the iron bars pleased him and made him laugh. He felt that it was one of his lucky days.
Yasmeena arrived before sunset. The two lovers hugged each other and the joy of being together again removed the bitterness of their longing for each other. The softness of the waves of the night & the moon gave them kind joyful looks.

KING FAROUK OF EGYPT AND UNFAIR HISTORY

HIS MAJESTY FAROUK 1 KING OF EGYPT AND SUDAN

A RARE PHOTO DEPICTING KING FAROUK 1 WHEN HE WAS A CROWN PRINCE BESIDE HIS FATHER KING FOUAD 1... IT IS SAID THAT HIS FATHER WAS SO TOUGH ON HIM... WHEN HE BECAME KING HIS CONCEPT WAS " I AM THE KING... I CAN DO ANYTHING "

I WAS SHOCKED !!! IT IS A SHAME Google !!!

ISLAM AND MOSLEMS DESERVE BETTER THAN THAT

I WAS REALLY SHOCKED TO DISCOVER A PICTURE ( CARICATURE ) AMONG Google PICTURES IGNORANTLY ATTACKING ISLAM, THE PROPHET MOHAMED AND THE MOSLEM CREED.. I DO NOT BLAME THE FILTHY MINDED PERSON WHO MADE IT.. I BELIEVE THAT Google PEOPLE MUST EVERY NOW AND THEN PURIFY Google PICTURES FROM SUCH DIRTY PICTURES ABUSING OTHERS AND DEFAMING Google REPUTATION..

THE TURKISH BATH AND ORIENTAL BEAUTY ARTS

THE WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE EAST ARE CONCERNED ALL THE TIME WITH BEAUTY ARTS... THEY ARE DOING THEIR UTMOST TO LOOK BEAUTIFUL.. ATTRACTIVE.. AND IF POSSIBLE A " FEMME FATALE " IN THE PAST THE TURKISH BATH WAS THEIR ROYAL GATE TO THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AND CHARM... THEY USED TO SPEND THE WHOLE DAY THERE TRYING TO " MAKE THE BEST OF ABAD SITUATION "

CLEOPATRA THE QUEEN OF CHARM

WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU

I BELIEVE QUEEN CLEOPATRA REPRESENTS EGYPT IN THE WORLD OF ROMANCE.. THERE IS A DISTRICT IN ALEXANDERIA NAMED AFTER HER.. THE MOST POPULAR CIGARETTES IN EGYPT ARE CALLED CLEOPATRA.. THE MOST ROMANTIC SONG " CLEOPATRA " WAS WRITTEN BY THE POET ALI MAHMOUD TAHA.. MELODIZED AND SUNG BY MOHMED ABDL WAHAB.. THE FAMOUS CLEOPATRA THE SEVENTH ONLY HELD A PLACE IN THE MEMORY OF THE DAYS..WHICH IGNORED 6 CLEOPATRAS BEFORE HER.. AND THE GIANTS OF ART AND LITERATURE IMMORTALIZED HER FOR EVER.

THE CAR RACE IN THE PAST

A PHOTO IS A FROZEN MOMENT.

THIS PHOTO TAKES US BACK TO THE DAYS OF EARLY CAR RALLY... ALSO WE CAN SEE THE LAST WORD IN FASHION... THOSE WERE THE DAYS... LIFE WAS AN EASY GAME TO PLAY... THE GHOUL OF BOREDOM WAS CHAINED AT THAT TIME... LOVE WAS ONE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS... IMPOSSIBLE WAS NOTHING... WISE MEN AND WOMEN WERE A LOT... FORGIVE MY NOSTALGIA... THE PAST IS ALWAYS TEMPTING.

WHAT AN ABSURD WORLD WE LIVE IN !!!

I CAN NOT MAKE OUT WHY THE WEST IS INSISTING ON HURTING THE FEELINGS OF THE MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD... A WORLD FULL OF INJUSTICE... THEY HANGED THE LATE SADAM HUSSIEN GOD BLESS HIS SOUL ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MOSLEMS FEAST.. WHO DID NOTHING BUT DEFENDING HIS COUNTRY AGAINST THE GREEDY COWBOY G. BUSH AND " HIS MASTERS'S VOICE " T. BLAIR... NO NUKES WERE FOUND.. AND BOTH OF THEM APPEARED IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD AS SHAMELESS LIARS WHO DO NOT CARE AT ALL... NOW AUNTIE LIZ " QUEEN OF UNITED KINGDOM " HAS MADE " SALMAN ROSHDY " ONE OF HER KNIGHTS WITH THE TITLE " SIR " ONLY BECAUSE HE ATTACKED ISLAM AND MOSLEM SYMBOLS !!! YOU ARE PUSHING US TO BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS BEING RULED BY A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO ESCAPED FROM A LUNATIC ASYLUM... BY GOD IT IS A SHAME.

BUSH'S BUGABOO

IS BIN LADEN STILL ALIVE ?

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS BUSH'S BUGABOO.. IS HE STILL ALIVE ? OR IS HE DEAD SINCE BUSH WAS USING THE LAST WORD IN BOMBS TO KILL HIM AND HIS COMPANY.. FRANKLY I DO NOT KNOW.. BUT I DO NOT TRUST BUSH BECAUSE HE LIED BEFORE WHEN HE CLAIMED ERRONNEOUSLY THAT SADAM HUSSIEN HAD NUKES.. MAYBE OSAMA BIN LADEN DIED A LONG TIME AGO !! MAYBE BUSH IS FABRICATING THE VIDEOS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN TO KEEP THE WORLD TREMBLING AND HORRIFIED OF THE GHOUL OF TERRORISM OSAMA BIN LADEN.. WHO KNOWS ? BUT NEVER EVER TRUST A LIAR.

THE MEGALOMANIAC MASTERS OF MISERY DEPRIVED US FROM LAUGHING

I AM REALLY DOWN... I AM TERRIBLY BLUE... BUT I KNOW WHY !!! ALLOW ME TO TALK IT OUT... TO BE HONEST WITH YOU... THE DECISION MAKERS IN OUR WORLD HAVE GONE CRAZY!!! IT SEEMS THEY ARE TRYING TO OFFER US A NEW VERSION OF MISERY... HUMILIATION... SLAVERY... DREADFUL DISCRIMINATION... UNJUSTIFIED WARS... UGLY NEW IMPERIALISM.... I DO NOT WANT T BORE YOU... SO HOW CAN I LAUGH WHEN I AM DOWN ???? BUT THANK GOD SOMEONE CAN STILL LAUGH.

HOW TO MAKE IRON TALK.

AHMED KAMEL IS AN EGYPTIAN SCULPTURER... HE IS ONE OF THE SO MANY LOVERS OF THE RED SEA... HE HAS MANY FRIENDS OF THE FISH THERE... HE IS ALSO VERY FOND OF IRON... HE MADE IT TALK TO US TELLING ABOUT THE RED SEA FISH... THE PICTURE IS DEPICTING ONE OF HIS BEAUTIFUL SCULPUTURES EMBODYING HIS VISION OF THE UNDERWATER VAST WORLD.

ARE THE ARABS A LUSTFUL PEOPLE

IS IT A RUMOR ?

THE ARABS ARE USUALLY LOOKED UPON AS A LUSTFUL PEOPLE!!.. I DONT KNOW WHY.. OR WHAT THE GROUNDS OF SUCH A JUDGEMENT.. IT URGED ME TO START A STUDY ABOUT " THE ARAB CONCEPT OF SEX AND LOVE ".. I PUBLISHED OVER 50 ARTICLES ABOUT THIS SUBJECT IN MY BLOG IN ARABIC " HILWO AL KALAM " : www.himaparadise.jeeran.com .. I THOUGHT OF SHARING THESE ARTICLES WITH YOU IN ENGLISH.. I DREAM OF READING YOUR COMMENTS WHICH I REALLY WELCOME.. LET US COMPARE THE ARAB SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND THE WESTERN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND CONCEPT OF LOVE AND SEX.. I STARTED THIS CRUSADE TO DEFEND THE ARABS REPUTATION.. AND TRY TO ESTABLISH A CRYSTAL CLEAR FAIR VISION TOGETHER.. SO PLEASE HELP ME ON CONDITION THAT WE SKIP PROFANITY.. INJUSTICE.. PREJUDICE.. AND RACISM.. WAIT FOR THE COMING SOON FIRST ARTICLE.