✅ Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify key geographic features (mountains, valleys, wind, homes, villages) referenced or implied in the song.
2. Explore how natural landscapes influence cultural identity, memory, and artistic expression in Arab culture.
3. Analyze poetic language and basic Levantine Arabic vocabulary in a song.
4. Reflect on their own connection to landscape or place through creative expression.

Landscapes of Home

What kinds of places make you feel “at home”?

How does the wind, mountain, or sea make you feel?

The song we are going to hear today, is about the beauty of Lebanon.

🎵 Nassam ‘Alayna El Hawa – Fairuz

Transliterated Arabic Lyrics

Nassam ‘alayna el-hawa  
Min mawti wadi  
Ya hawa, dkhil el-hawa  
Yalli tarakna sawah  
Shuqa falina  
Wa nasina el-hawa  
Ya hawa

Khilna tirkna el-habayeb  
W nensa el-‘atiq  
We nrouh ntgharrab  
Wa la yib’a wala habib  
Ya hawa

Nassam ‘alayna el-hawa  
Min mawti wadi  
Ya hawa, dkhil el-hawa  
Yalli tarakna sawah  
Shuqa falina  
Wa nasina el-hawa  
Ya hawa

Khudni ‘ala bladi  
Khudni ‘ala bladi  
Yalli hawa bladi  
‘ala bali

Khudni ‘ala bladi  
Khudni ‘ala bladi  
Yalli hawa bladi  
‘ala bali

Nassam ‘alayna el-hawa  
Min mawti wadi