Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

You are Baini

 

There, in the Shouf region,

My ancestors

Built a monument of glory.

They dispersed their children

Throughout the entire world,

Desiring them to be the most distinguished in family,

The most exalted in religion,

And the greatest in humanity.

So, they united all communities

In one family,

To the point that when one of us meets his brother, 

He exclaims:

You are in my eye!

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