Sunday, September 18, 2011

Khalid `Abdun-Nasser

Regarding the death of Khalid `Abdun-Nasser, I remember when I was 7 on the night of Nasser's resignation, how people took to the streets spontaneously and chanted: O Abu Khalid, our beloved; we want to liberate Tel Aviv (it rhymes in Arabic, of course:  أبو خالد يا حبيب, بدنا نحرّر تل أبيب).