Dr. Hassan Madan
“Do not you overlook?” These are phrases,” Umm Kulhum sings, from the phrases of Maamoun El-Shennawi and the music of Baligh Hamdi, demanding: “That is the factor that isn’t potential / and I by no means give it some thought. ” Like Umm Kulthum, Fayrouz sings from the phrases of Joseph Harb and the music of Ziad Rahbani: “I used to be unhappy for a very long time with you / And I stayed for years / Attempt to overlook you / I couldn’t overlook.”
The phrases didn’t come out of nowhere, however from the lived expertise of many individuals, who have been compelled, for varied causes, by an outburst of anger to attempt to “break away” from emotion, maybe as a result of they felt it was limiting. for them, however they didn’t succeed, and if the phrases of Umm Kulhum’s track have been agency and strict, in expressing the unwillingness to overlook, as a result of “it’s not possible,” the phrases of Fayrouz’s track expressing the failure of many makes an attempt to overlook. years handed, however “I couldn’t overlook.
The poems, together with those who grew to become songs, say, in brief phrases, what in-depth research by students and researchers say, as a result of they embrace the that means of individuals’s emotions and experiences of their lives, as within the poems of Mamoun Al-Shennawi and Joseph. Harb, which was sung by Umm Kulhum and Fairouz. This is identical conclusion reached by the neuroscientist and professor of psychology on the College of California, Charan Ranganath, in a ebook entitled: “Why will we bear in mind?”, on printed on the BBC web site. “Reminiscence is rather more than simply an archive of the previous.
In line with this examine, Professor Ranganath “has spent the final thirty years finding out the mind processes behind our skill to recollect and overlook,” to argue that “most of the widespread assumptions what we’ve about improper and false reminiscence its most helpful options. “This creates the psychological flexibility essential for our survival.”
We won’t go into the psychological and mind evaluation given by the professor, and we are going to cease solely on the “assortment” of the reminiscence with particulars, asking this query: “Allow us to think about that you just to your property, and that we requested. : Why do you retain all of your issues? Why retailer all the things? “If we do not overlook the issues we have finished and gone by means of, all of the recollections might be saved away, and you’ll by no means discover what you need, if you need it.” It is smart for me to recollect my room quantity two weeks from now. Likewise, consider all of the folks you go on the road. Do you really want to memorize and bear in mind all their faces?
A great and logical assertion, however it doesn’t contact the that means of what Umm Kulhum and Fairouz mentioned.
