Ma'loula
Ma'loula, Maaloula, or Ma'lula (Aramaic: ܡܥܠܘܠܐ, Maʿlūlā; Arabic: معلولا Maʿlūlā) is a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate in Syria. The town is located 56 km to the northeast of Damascus, and built into the rugged mountainside, at an altitude of more than 1500 metres. It is known as one of three remaining villages where Western Aramaic is still spoken, the other two being the nearby villages Jubb'adin and Al-Sarkha (Bakhah).
Etymology
Maʿlūlā is from the Aramaic word maʿʿəlā (ܡܥܠܐ), meaning 'entrance'. Until recently, the town was dominated by speakers of Western Neo-Aramaic.
Climate
Population
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Ma'loula had a population of 2,762 in the 2004 census. However, during summer, it increases to about 10,000, due to people coming from Damascus for holidays. Half a century ago, 15,000 people lived in Ma'loula.
Religiously, the population consists of both Christians (mainly Eastern Orthodox and Melkite Catholics) and Muslims. For the Muslim inhabitants, the legacy is all the more remarkable given that they were not Arabised, unlike most other Syrians who like them were Islamised over the centuries but also adopted Arabic and shifted to an "Arab" ethnic identity.
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Whistle's Party
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Ohhhh all the boyfriend beware
Ehi baby what's up? What you doin' tonight?
Oh yeah I'm going down to the Whistle's Party
The man, leave your boyfriend home
and why don't you come with me
because It's the place that's gonna make you feel good
I don't wanna in not
but if you wanna come you just call me, ok?
Ciao baby
In the beginning
in this time to movin to the left and dancing to the
right
we shake our bodies at the discotek
but now is the time to just feel good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Walking down the street I'm thinking about you
I'm thinking all the times the times we're together
if you wanna come with me blow your whistle to the beat
here I am all alone waiting for you to phone
Blow your whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
blow your whistle
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
Welcome to the place that feels good
I'm walking down the street I'm thinking about you
I'm thinking all the times the times we're together
if you wanna come with me blow your whistle to the beat
here I am all alone waiting for you to phone
Blow your whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
blow your whistle
Blow your whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle
let me blow your whistle the whistle