Ali Ali is a phrase that Umm Kulthum utters in her magnificence “Think regarding me.” This is the phrase: “Think regarding me, how is it that I forgot you?” I see it coming to me whenever night comes to them here in Baghdad, and ideas roam in my imagination and my thoughts, and what is the day different from the night, when the night turns me crazy My pillow, and he does not leave me a bed to which I go reassured. And when the day comes, I do not see […]
