Zajal Lobneneh : Origin and Video Archives

[mount_amel]

Hi All,

I cant think but of the beauty of lebanon's people when i hear Zajal .. Today i was with a freind of mine and we had a discussion where and who started Zajal. He was saying it is originally palastenian and i was insisting it is lebanese.

Can someone help please.


I would like to share with you one of my favorite Zajal Videos from Youtube and who would be the star but Talee3 7amdan ..

Enjoy

YouTube - زجل لبنان - طليع حمدان - راحت علبلاد الاجنيبه


YouTube - زجل لبنان - طليع حمدان - مافيك تعيش وحدك يا فؤادي


Also if you have the talent wrting zajal please share it with us . . . I would love that this thread become a Zajal competition between all forum members ..

Lets see what you got.

[SaadTam]

The zajal links you posted are actually not bad at all Mount_Amel, never really heard anything for Talee3 7amdan....but I just found out he's pretty good

However, when you wanna hear real Lebanese zajal , you should go for the true satrs, like "Moussa Zgheib" and "Zaghloul Damour" and "Khalil Roukoz" !!

This link for example contains a fair amount of downloadable zajal music for Moussa Zgheib (some call him Moussi with an "i" as well )

And an amazing zajal extract written by Moussa Zgheib, sung by Najwa karam
Mouwwel aL Adyan

And here is a prodigious list, of lebanese zajal text....with this database, you could impress your audience pretty well, since zajal is a custom nowadays, where the audience can participate by replying with the ending

As for the origins, I'm pretty sure it's Lebanese
Lebanese Zajal is as old as Amir Fakhreddine, and even documented to be older (1200-1300). But in only became popular as we know it today (ya3ni competition, w tawli w mezza w khass w tabbouli, w dirbakki ) in the thirties, with "Cha7rour l Wadi" and others....

There is a possibility that the palestinians discovered their own zajal as well......but as we arabs tend to do sometimes, is try to improve our methods by comparing to others. I will try to provide more details during the upcoming days.

[SaadTam]

Moussa Zgheib to a bird:

توبي قماش وإنتْ توبك ريشْ إنت وأنا بصواتنا منعيشْ
وبدنا نموت وكلها موتي الله يخلّي صوتك وصوتي

[mount_amel]

Originally Posted by SaadTam

The zajal links you posted are actually not bad at all Mount_Amel, never really heard anything for Talee3 7amdan....but I just found out he's pretty good

However, when you wanna hear real Lebanese zajal , you should go for the true satrs, like "Moussa Zgheib" and "Zaghloul Damour" and "Khalil Roukoz" !!

This link for example contains a fair amount of downloadable zajal music for Moussa Zgheib (some call him Moussi with an "i" as well )

And an amazing zajal extract written by Moussa Zgheib, sung by Najwa karam
Mouwwel aL Adyan

And here is a prodigious list, of lebanese zajal text....with this database, you could impress your audience pretty well, since zajal is a custom nowadays, where the audience can participate by replying with the ending

As for the origins, I'm pretty sure it's Lebanese
Lebanese Zajal is as old as Amir Fakhreddine, and even documented to be older (1200-1300). But in only became popular as we know it today (ya3ni competition, w tawli w mezza w khass w tabbouli, w dirbakki ) in the thirties, with "Cha7rour l Wadi" and others....

There is a possibility that the palestinians discovered their own zajal as well......but as we arabs tend to do sometimes, is try to improve our methods by comparing to others. I will try to provide more details during the upcoming days.

You've never heard of tale3 Hamdan ... Man you shock me now , dont tell me you've never heard of Abo Ali Sh3eb !

Thanks for the link and yes i knew it is orginally lebanese , these poor palastenians dont know anything about Zajal ..

Thanks for the info.

[mount_amel]

Originally Posted by SaadTam

Moussa Zgheib to a bird:

توبي قماش وإنتْ توبك ريشْ إنت وأنا بصواتنا منعيشْ
وبدنا نموت وكلها موتي الله يخلّي صوتك وصوتي

[SaadTam]

Originally Posted by mount_amel

You've never heard of tale3 Hamdan ... Man you shock me now , dont tell me you've never heard of Abo Ali Sh3eb !

Sorry mate...but when you first hear of zajal...tale3 hamdan is not the first name that come up..hehe

Originally Posted by mount_amel

Sorry...I didn't get ur point here

[Faithful]

I like zajal a lot ... i enjoy hearing it but i am not so talented to write it
I hope lebanon will never lose this kind of Turath really ... it has his own audience but its so great and special

When i was young i used to watch TL and Zajal between zaghloul l damour and Cha7rour l Wadi .... and others but i forget their names. ...... i still smile till now when i see l khasse w kam rass banadoura w kes l 3arak 2eddemoun ... i really like the mood

I still remember one sentence that i like so much:
الليلة بدّي خلّي الكاس تفزّ تبوس القنينة

i like how they merge words together with a lot of fun and high intelligence
Some of the members here are good in zajal ... like Arze .... where are you Arze ??? .... yalla 2atribina

[mount_amel]

Originally Posted by SaadTam

Sorry...I didn't get ur point here

Walow .. The zajal you said requires a kass .. hehehe

[mount_amel]

Originally Posted by faithful

I like zajal a lot ... i enjoy hearing it but i am not so talented to write it
I hope lebanon will never lose this kind of Turath really ... it has his own audience but its so great and special

When i was young i used to watch TL and Zajal between zaghloul l damour and Cha7rour l Wadi .... and others but i forget their names. ...... i still smile till now when i see l khasse w kam rass banadoura w kes l 3arak 2eddemoun ... i really like the mood

I still remember one sentence that i like so much:
الليلة بدّي خلّي الكاس تفزّ تبوس القنينة

i like how they merge words together with a lot of fun and high intelligence
Some of the members here are good in zajal ... like Arze .... where are you Arze ??? .... yalla 2atribina

Yes , i still remember this kass and 2aneeneh mawal .. i think wasoof used it a lot in his 7aflat ..

Yallah , if Arze is the man .. we are all waiting for Arze ..

[The Brain]

The first time I watched & heard Haflet Zajal was on TL my grandfather a big fan of them, used to watch them every Sunday & never missed an episode.

I had the opportunity to work on filming a Zajal Program produced by my university & watch a live Zajal debate between 2 groups. It was great they used to skip some written phrases & Yértéjlo live some new ones.
We interviewed all big names as Zaghloul el damour, Moussa Zgheib & Elias Khalil (the brother of nayeb kesrouan Youssif Khalil) & many others ...

I would like to present a Zajal program proposal to OTV but I don't know if they will agree, what do you think?