#fasateen

[fiercynn]

queer palestinian short film: "living alone without me"

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations. i’m featuring some of my favorite films on tumblr because why not

israel | 2 minutes | 2010 | narrative short film audio in arabic; subtitles available in arabic and english

living alone without me | عايشة مع وحدة, بلاااي, created by eli rezik, uses its less than a short runtime to tell a clear and powerful story. a man filming a video diary tells us that he is planning to propose to his girlfriend hanin after five years together. though he is foregrounded in the shot, his voice is cut off shortly into the film, and we instead hear the conversation betweeen hanin and another woman sitting far behind him, out of focus. with the plaintive sounds of the mashrou’ leila song “fasateen��� in the background (i recommended a short film featuring the lebanese band mashrou’ leila earlier this year), we learn more about the women’s relationship even as we never see their faces clearly, evocative of the way they have had to hide in plain sight. - deepa's full review

watch on youtube, and check out creator eli rezik's website!

[fan-art-ic]

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

فساتين (Fasateen) • عبوة ('Ubwa) • من الطابور (Min Al Taboor) • عالحاجز ('Al Hajiz) • شم الياسمين (Shemm El Yasmeen) • إم بم بلي لح (Im Bim Billi Lah) • لتلت (Latlit) • خليها ذكرى (Khaleeha Zikra) • رقصة ليلى (Raksit Leila)

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[oottaa]

مسكتيلي ايدي و وعدتيني بشي ثورة كيف نسيتي كيف نسيتيني

[riverofmolecules]

10, 20, 30

I never did this one!

10. Better Than That, Sub-Radio

"Everybody's talking / and I'm feeling forgotten. / Oh, are you thinking of me?"

20. Fasateen, Mashrou' Leila

I don't know Arabic so this is more based on the music, but this part:

واتفقنا نضلنا هيك بلا أدوار وطنطنات بلا كرافات وصبحيات بلا ملايين بلا فساتين

A translation tells me means "So we agreed to stay like that without roles or talks, / without neckties or morning chats, / without millions, without dresses."

Which I do really like, it's the nice winding down of the song until the turn, "You took my hand and promised me a revolution. How could you forget me? How could you forget me?"

A helpful comment on the music video says that the context is neckties 'is like putting on airs' and morning chats refers to women coming over to the house to gossip over coffee. Essentially, markers of traditional (heterosexual) marriage in middle class Lebanese society.

I also like the parallel in the opening and closing lines: "Remember when you told me that you would marry me without money or a house," and "Remember when you told me that you intend to leave me without money or a house."

The past year, I've had a lot of regret that I never got to see them live.

30. Eden, Sub-Radio

"Too late for choices, I-i-i-i know (I-i-i-i- know) / but I'm up self-destructing again, o-o-o-oh no (o-o-o-oh no)"

[rotanawrites]

i was tagged by @olivaraofrph to put my spotify on repeat playlist on shuffle and put up the first 10 songs! (thank you!)

보편적인 노래 (A Universal Song) - Broccoli, You too

Kiss Off - Violent Femmes

Girl God Gun - Gem and The Degenerates

Voices - Joshua Ray Walker (I’m never ready for 2:50 lmao)

Time In - Yeng Constantino

Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain (can you tell I grew up in the Southern US with a mother who went to high school in the 90s)

Bad Decisions - Bastille

Los Laureles - Lola Beltrán

Fasateen - Mashrou’ Leila

Unforgiven - LE SSERAFIM

[deliriousdotsworld]

currently listening to 🎧

[aabbiidd]

🎶Fasateen - Mashrou' Leila 🌺 • Naran, Pakistan. (Instagram: aabbiidd)

[batool-0]

Aziz Maraka, Mashrou3 Leila & Ressala - Fasateen

[study--potato]

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📖Wrote an essay on nationalist identity in china in the 20th century, a media studies essay on the song Fasateen and studied physics for a quiz.~~

👽☕️

[strawberriesandcigarettes0]

تتذكري؟

[carryonmylovelies]

M for the letter ask

You know I was gonna say ‘M&M’s’ because I fricking love those little chocolate-y bastards but I’m actually going to go with ‘My mom’ because I came out to her last night and it went mostly better than expected, so I really love my mom right now. :D

Thanks for the ask lovely

[dork-with-a-uke]

Heyyy, HAPPY NEW YEAR 💙💙💙

THANK YOU FRIEND I HOPE THE NEW YEAR BRINGS EVERYTHING YOU HOPE FOR & A LOT OF HAPPINESS