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[李東昇的意見]心靈的感動能化解仇恨! 期盼這是伊拉克的一個契機! ======================== 引用來源: http://news.bostonherald.com/international/middleEast/view.bg?articleid=191946 ========================= 伊拉克女子歌聲動人 國內不分派系都投她一票 =================== 資料來源: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/31/iraq/main2632746.shtml
A trophy in one hand, a bouquet of flowers in the other with the Iraqi flag spread in between, Shadha Hassoun celebrates her win of a pan-Arab singing contest on Lebanese LBC satellite television in Beirut, Lebanon Friday. (AP)
2007/04/01 01:19
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伊拉克陷入分裂，沒有任何政治人物能夠團結所有的派系。但是卻有1位小女子，代表伊拉克參加中東的歌唱大賽，她憑著嘹亮動人的嗓音，讓所有伊拉克人，不分遜尼或什葉派，全部投票給她，最後拿下冠軍，成了真正團結伊拉克的新偶像。
好的聲音可以繞樑三日，竟然也可以團結一個國家，來自伊拉克的26歲女子莎達哈珊在4個月前參加黎巴嫩一個類似「美國偶像」的歌唱大賽，原本不太受注目，但是自從她唱了1首伊拉克的懷舊老歌，迷人的嗓音讓伊拉克人民想念起戰爭前的美好，聲名因此大燥。
每個禮拜的莎達的歌唱節目，無數的伊拉克人準時收看，部份地區電力不足，當地民眾甚至還自備發電機，就是不願錯過莎達的演出，並且民眾也互相提醒記得傳簡訊投票給莎達，這位伊拉克新國民偶像則表示，非常感謝所有的伊拉克人投票給自己，每個人的愛戴自己都感受到了。
伊拉克自從分裂後，每天爆炸聲不絕於耳，不停的內亂也使人心惶惶，唯有莎達的歌聲，讓伊拉克不論是什葉派還是遜尼派全部都凝結在一起。然而在比賽最後一回合前夕，幾乎所有伊拉克人動員投票，結果揭曉幾乎是眾望所歸，莎達獲得冠軍。
從黎巴嫩到伊拉克，所有人都看見莎達拿著伊拉克國旗在舞台上為國爭光，她興奮的情緒夾雜著感動，心情的激動難以言喻，誰能想到1個年輕女孩子用歌聲讓戰後的伊拉克陷入內亂，在沒人能夠團結各個族群黨派的情形下，將所有的伊拉克人凝結在一起。 Iraqi Wins Arab "Idol" Competition
"Daughter of Mesopotamia" Wins Talent Competition In Lebanon
(AP) For four long years, life has been brutally unkind to most Iraqis, but Friday night they had one of those rare moments to focus beyond the daily violence that is swallowing their lives. One of their own took first prize in the Arab version of American Idol.
In Baghdad, a city that becomes deserted and plunges into darkness after nightfall, residents who had electricity to watch televisions celebrated with gunfire that briefly pierced the quiet just before midnight.
Wearing a turquoise evening dress, Shadha Hassoun, wrapped herself with the white, red and black flag of Iraq and broke into tears as fans swarmed the stage in Beirut, Lebanon, where the contest was held and broadcast live throughout the Middle East.
"Her triumph will show the world that Iraqis will still sing despite their wounds," Israa Tariq, a homemaker from Baghdad's al-Ghadeer neighborhood, said before Friday's final episode.
Hassoun's run to the final in what is perhaps the Arab world's most watched TV entertainment program coincided with a particularly painful time in Iraq.
More than 500 people had been killed in the last six days alone. Most of them perished in a series of horrific suicide bombings targeting busy markets and in a sectarian massacre where innocent men were dragged out of their homes and shot execution-style.
Dubbed the "Daughter of Mesopotamia" by fans, Hassoun has for weeks served as a pleasant distraction for a people in year five of a war that harvests scores of Iraqi lives each day.
With a nighttime curfew in force and the streets too dangerous after sundown, Iraqis have been finding refuge in the wide variety of TV channels provided by satellite dishes, banned under Saddam Hussein but now sprouting on nearly every rooftop.
Iraqis have been glued to their TVs each Friday since December, eagerly monitoring Hassoun's progress in the "Star Academy" contest that is produced by a Lebanese satellite channel.
Hassoun, a 25-year-old brunette who has lived most of her life outside Iraq, outpaced three other finalists — men from Egypt and Lebanon and a woman from Tunisia.
Television viewers across the Mideast voted for their favorite performer by e-mail and text-messages to the satellite channel.
Iraq's al-Sharqiyah satellite channel devoted hours of live coverage Friday, urging Iraqis to vote for Hassoun and broadcast a phone-in program for her supporters. Some fans called to say they had voted for Hassoun so many times they had used up the credit on their prepaid phone cards.
"How beautiful we, Iraqis, can be when we are united," said one caller, alluding to the support Hassoun received from her countrymen and women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Al-Sharqiyah also sponsored a gathering of hundreds of Hassoun fans in the Kurdish city of Irbil, where fans carried banners and portraits of the young Iraqi and watched the contest Friday night on a giant outdoor television screen. The crowd erupted in jubilation when the Lebanese host of the show announced Hassoun had won.
A similar gathering would have been impossible to organize almost anywhere outside the Kurdish region, possibly the safest place in Iraq. However, al-Sharqiyah could not keep the minds of viewers off their troubles at home for long.
During commercial breaks, it aired a government ad that seeks to discourage sectarian cleansing. It shows an elderly woman in a black chador in tears and pleading with masked gunmen not to evict her and her family from their home.
Images of Hassoun, who has a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father, have for days appeared in front page newspaper ads by a local telephone company. News of her progress on the show have for weeks been a fixture in the entertainment pages of most Iraqi newspapers.
Hassoun captivated Iraq the same way the country's soccer team did with its dream run in last year's Asian Games, when it reached the final but lost to its Qatari hosts. With every win on the road to the final, Iraqis celebrated with intense celebratory gunfire in Baghdad.
"She is the daughter of the land of two rivers. The daughter of one Iraq," Baghdad student Ali Yahia said of Hassoun. "Every Iraqi will hold his head high when she wins."
Ziad al-Qaisi, a 31-year-old clerk from Baghdad, saw Hassoun's triumph as a message to all Iraqis to abandon violence and shift their energy to something constructive.
"Iraqis should focus on art, music and sports where they can find love, beauty and tranquility."
But not everyone in Iraq watched as Hassoun sang her way to the final in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
"I wish Iraqis would instead pay attention to the more pressing issues in Iraq and try to find a way out of our tragedy," said physical education postgraduate student Ibrahim Abdullah from Baqouba — an enduring Sunni insurgent stronghold northeast of the capital.
In Baghdad, a city that becomes deserted and plunges into darkness after nightfall, residents who had electricity to watch televisions celebrated with gunfire that briefly pierced the quiet just before midnight.
Wearing a turquoise evening dress, Shadha Hassoun, wrapped herself with the white, red and black flag of Iraq and broke into tears as fans swarmed the stage in Beirut, Lebanon, where the contest was held and broadcast live throughout the Middle East.
"Her triumph will show the world that Iraqis will still sing despite their wounds," Israa Tariq, a homemaker from Baghdad's al-Ghadeer neighborhood, said before Friday's final episode.
Hassoun's run to the final in what is perhaps the Arab world's most watched TV entertainment program coincided with a particularly painful time in Iraq.
More than 500 people had been killed in the last six days alone. Most of them perished in a series of horrific suicide bombings targeting busy markets and in a sectarian massacre where innocent men were dragged out of their homes and shot execution-style.
Dubbed the "Daughter of Mesopotamia" by fans, Hassoun has for weeks served as a pleasant distraction for a people in year five of a war that harvests scores of Iraqi lives each day.
With a nighttime curfew in force and the streets too dangerous after sundown, Iraqis have been finding refuge in the wide variety of TV channels provided by satellite dishes, banned under Saddam Hussein but now sprouting on nearly every rooftop.
Iraqis have been glued to their TVs each Friday since December, eagerly monitoring Hassoun's progress in the "Star Academy" contest that is produced by a Lebanese satellite channel.
Hassoun, a 25-year-old brunette who has lived most of her life outside Iraq, outpaced three other finalists — men from Egypt and Lebanon and a woman from Tunisia.
Television viewers across the Mideast voted for their favorite performer by e-mail and text-messages to the satellite channel.
Iraq's al-Sharqiyah satellite channel devoted hours of live coverage Friday, urging Iraqis to vote for Hassoun and broadcast a phone-in program for her supporters. Some fans called to say they had voted for Hassoun so many times they had used up the credit on their prepaid phone cards.
"How beautiful we, Iraqis, can be when we are united," said one caller, alluding to the support Hassoun received from her countrymen and women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Al-Sharqiyah also sponsored a gathering of hundreds of Hassoun fans in the Kurdish city of Irbil, where fans carried banners and portraits of the young Iraqi and watched the contest Friday night on a giant outdoor television screen. The crowd erupted in jubilation when the Lebanese host of the show announced Hassoun had won.
A similar gathering would have been impossible to organize almost anywhere outside the Kurdish region, possibly the safest place in Iraq. However, al-Sharqiyah could not keep the minds of viewers off their troubles at home for long.
During commercial breaks, it aired a government ad that seeks to discourage sectarian cleansing. It shows an elderly woman in a black chador in tears and pleading with masked gunmen not to evict her and her family from their home.
Images of Hassoun, who has a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father, have for days appeared in front page newspaper ads by a local telephone company. News of her progress on the show have for weeks been a fixture in the entertainment pages of most Iraqi newspapers.
Hassoun captivated Iraq the same way the country's soccer team did with its dream run in last year's Asian Games, when it reached the final but lost to its Qatari hosts. With every win on the road to the final, Iraqis celebrated with intense celebratory gunfire in Baghdad.
"She is the daughter of the land of two rivers. The daughter of one Iraq," Baghdad student Ali Yahia said of Hassoun. "Every Iraqi will hold his head high when she wins."
Ziad al-Qaisi, a 31-year-old clerk from Baghdad, saw Hassoun's triumph as a message to all Iraqis to abandon violence and shift their energy to something constructive.
"Iraqis should focus on art, music and sports where they can find love, beauty and tranquility."
But not everyone in Iraq watched as Hassoun sang her way to the final in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
"I wish Iraqis would instead pay attention to the more pressing issues in Iraq and try to find a way out of our tragedy," said physical education postgraduate student Ibrahim Abdullah from Baqouba — an enduring Sunni insurgent stronghold northeast of the capital.
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