Bint el Balad feat. Dana El Masri & Nadia Bashalani

from The Stories that Tie Us To Trees Vol.1 by Nadine Altounji

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Bint El Balad is a celebration of women of South West Asian and North-African descent born in the diaspora. It celebrates women who dance between worlds and are transformed. The song brings together Nadine Altounji, Nadia Bashalani and Dana El Masri, three women whose roots run deep into the rich soil of their parents’ Syria, Lebanon and Egypt homelands.
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Bint el Balad (Daughter of the land)

I am
Child of the palm
Born to the sun and the moon

Daughter of the land
Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

I don’t know where I’m going
But I know I’m going far
Each day I am learning
Life is such a work of art

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Daughter of land
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء
I’m the daughter of the desert
I’m the daughter of the land
Of the desert

Caught in the branches of my family tree
Old memories are binding me
Push past the brush
I walk alone
The desert becomes my body’s home

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

Up ahead
I don’t know
Where to start
Deeply rooted,
Tonight, I leave for the stars

Daughter of the land
Daughter of the desert
Daughter of the land
Daughter of the desert

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء
Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء

Don t give up
Keep on moving
Don t give up

المستقبل مش موعود
(the future is not promised)

Bint el balad بنت البلد
Bint el Sahr’aa بنت الصحراء
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released July 9, 2021

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from The Stories that Tie Us To Trees Vol.1, track released May 6, 2022
Lyrics by Dana El Masri and Nadia Bashalani
Music written & produced by Nadine Altounji & Mark Alan Haynes
Musicians: Nadine Altounji, Nicolas Royer-Artuso, Mark Alan Haynes,
Jean-Michel Frederic.
Mixed by Mark Alan Haynes
Mastered by Brad Yost at Outrage Productions

© 2021 Nadine Altounji

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
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Nadine Altounji Montreal, Québec

Autrice-compositrice-interprète et multi-instrumentiste montréalaise, Nadine est active sur la scène culturelle depuis une vingtaine d’années. Sa discographie comprend deux EP, I Still (2016) parut sous son ancien nom d’artiste Nja et The Stories That Tie Us To Trees – Vol.1 (2022). En 2021. Le nouvel opus Enracinées dans l’histoire – Vol. 2 sortira le 8 Novembre, 2023 ... more