Fouad Salem - Feat. poet: Ahmed Alyan

We Loved You Like a Rose

• Ma Tdreen Shoq El Hob (You're Not Aware of Love's Nostalgia)
• Habbenakom Hub el Wardeh (We Love You As the Love of a Flower)
• Lakhater Oyounak Habibi (For Your Eyes' Sake)
• Taawadt Kul Yom Ashoufak (I'm Used to Seeing You Everyday)
• Mahlaha el Oyoun (Such Beautiful Eyes)

• Shoqi Ilak (My Passion For You)
• Bahr Ineik (The Sea of Your Eyes)
• Wenak Habibi (Where Are You, My Love?)
• Aridak Nabaa Li Ayami (I Want You to Be the Spring of My Days)
• Maraseel Waddetlak (I Sent You Letters)
• Sabreen (Patient)

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Iraqi artist Fuad Salem was born in the city of Basra in 1945 and studied music at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. His career and artistic activity started in the early 1970s, when he began singing at the Art Club in Basra – an establishment founded and sponsored by a collective of communist artists and poets. At the beginning of the 1980s, when the Baath Party campaign against communists and leftists began, the collective were subjected to continuous smuggling and violence. Fuad Salem was prevented from singing in public places or on public radio and television. He was once so severely beaten after performing at a party, that he left Iraq as a result – moving to Kuwait.

Fuad continued to move between Gulf countries, where he continued his musical education and began composing his own music. He also wrote poetry and Zajal and published three collections during his lifetime. He died in Damascus in 2013.

In addition to Fouad Salem's songs, the cassette includes segments of poetry recitation by Iraqi poet Ahmed Alyan.