Songs of the Gulf | 半島電視台世界紀錄片

Racist slurs, 諷刺, an ancient Islamic “advert” and World Cup football pride are the inspirations for these four song stories from the Arabian Gulf.

In Kuwait, the Haydoo song was born as an expression of pride in the face of unpleasant slurs in the 1981 世界杯; in Oman, a satirical song about a cat and mouse is really about the political situation in the 1970s; an old Qatari phrase, “shoomelah”, 意義 “rise to him”, became the lyrics of the country’s main football anthem; and in Iraq, an ancient poem about the virtues of black veils became what is considered the oldest “advertisement” in Islamic history.

Away from politics and war, this musical mini-tour sheds light and offers insights into a region often poorly represented in the media.

00:35 KUWAIT ‘SIT DOWN, LOVELY CAMEL’
12:26 OMAN ‘THE CAT AND THE MOUSE’
23:02 QATAR ‘RISE TO HIM’
34:33 IRAQ ‘TELL THE BEAUTY IN THE BLACK VEIL’

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