«وشوشة الورد»... راجح داود ينثر موسيقى الوفاء والصداقة

حفل «وشوشة الورد» (مكتبة الإسكندرية)
حفل «وشوشة الورد» (مكتبة الإسكندرية)
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«وشوشة الورد»... راجح داود ينثر موسيقى الوفاء والصداقة

حفل «وشوشة الورد» (مكتبة الإسكندرية)
حفل «وشوشة الورد» (مكتبة الإسكندرية)

في ليلة «وشوشة الورد» الموسيقية التي عزفت خلالها فرقة أوركسترا مكتبة الإسكندرية العديد من مقطوعات الموسيقار راجح داود، بقيادة المايسترو ناير ناجي، استعاد جمهور المسرح الكبير بمركز المؤتمرات أجواء الأفلام التي صمم ديكوراتها مهندس الديكور الراحل صلاح مرعي.
وقد جاء اختيار مقطوعات ليلة «وشوشة الورد» الموسيقية، بعناية، لكي تكون رسالة معبرة عن مزيج من الحنين للماضي والاعتراف بالجميل لكل من يمنحون المحبة والسلام ويمضون لتبقى آثارهم في نفوس من عرفوهم وعاشوا معهم.
وعزفت الفرقة بعض مؤلفات داود التي أهداها لزوجته، وكان من بينها مقطوعة «مهرج السيرك»، كما أهدى لصديق عمره الراحل الفنان صلاح مرعي، مقطوعة «وشوشة الورد»، التي اُقتبس منها عنوان الحفل.
وأعادت المقطوعة الجديدة للأذهان أجواء أعمال صلاح مرعي السينمائية، ومن أبرزها فيلم «المومياء» للمخرج الراحل شادي عبد السلام، والذي صمم مرعي مناظره.
وعن مقطوعة «وشوشة الورد»، يقول الموسيقار راجح داود لـ«الشرق الأوسط» إنه قام بتأليفها تحية لروح صديق عمره، مهندس الديكور الفنان الراحل صلاح مرعي، الذي يعتبره من أهم فناني الديكور في مصر، وصاحب تاريخ طويل في العمل السينمائي، وأحد أشهر مصممي المناظر السينمائية في تاريخ السينما المصرية، بعدما تتلمذ على يد المخرج الراحل شادي عبد السلام، وصاحبه في رحلة عمله السينمائي، وشارك في أعمال كثيرة، منها «رابعة العدوية» و«أمير الدهاء»، و«السمان والخريف»، وخصوصاً أعماله الأولى، وكان ينفذ ديكورات أفلامه وملابس أبطالها.
وأضاف داود: «حين توفي صلاح مرعي في مارس (آذار) 2011. أردت أن أهدي له مقطوعة موسيقية تعبر عن روحه، فمرعي كان هادئاً دائماً، وصاحب صوت خفيض يشبه الوشوشة، وكان حين يتحدث تشعر أن صوته كله عطر، وأن لكلامه عبيراً ورائحته جميلة، ومن هنا كان تسمية المقطوعة الموسيقية التي قمت بتأليفها بهذا الاسم، تعبيراً عن تقديري له كإنسان وصديق».
وذكر داود أن «وشوشة الورد» لها معنى ومضمون معنوي، يمكن أن تشعر به بنفسك، لكنه لا يمكن الإمساك به في تعبير معين، فلا يوجد معنى محدد لها يمكن التعبير عنه بكلمات واضحة».
وقد استمع جمهور الحفل لمؤلفات داود الموسيقية الأخرى، بعضها تعتبر أعمالاً كلاسيكية بحتة، وبعضها تم تأليفه كموسيقى تصويرية صاحبت أعمالاً سينمائية ودرامية مثل «الكبريت الأحمر»، و«في زمن العولمة».



Israeli Strike on Lebanon Kills Two

04 September 2026, Lebanon, Tyre District: Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out an explosion targeting homes in Mansouri, southern Lebanon. (dpa)
04 September 2026, Lebanon, Tyre District: Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out an explosion targeting homes in Mansouri, southern Lebanon. (dpa)
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Israeli Strike on Lebanon Kills Two

04 September 2026, Lebanon, Tyre District: Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out an explosion targeting homes in Mansouri, southern Lebanon. (dpa)
04 September 2026, Lebanon, Tyre District: Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out an explosion targeting homes in Mansouri, southern Lebanon. (dpa)

An Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed two people on Friday, Lebanese official media said, despite a truce with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported the strike hit near the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge, which the Israeli army said it had captured, though Hezbollah did not confirm losing it.

Two young men were "targeted while riding a motorcycle" in the city of Nabatieh, NNA said, adding that rescuers transported their bodies to a local hospital.

Israel announced on Thursday it had taken control of the ridge. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military would work to "prevent the enemy from re-establishing itself in the area".

Israel stepped up strikes in the Nabatieh region on Friday and also targeted the village of Rmadiyeh in the Tyre area, located more than 10 kilometers from the Israeli border, according to the NNA.

The strike in the village, which is sheltering people displaced from other southern areas, hit a house and injured four people, a rescue service source told AFP.

Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since March when the militant group dragged Lebanon into the wider Middle East war by attacking Israel in support of Iran.

Israel responded with airstrikes and a ground invasion that Lebanon says have killed more than 4,300 people.

The conflict has calmed since a US-Iran memorandum of understanding and a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon agreed in June, but Israeli strikes have continued.

Imran Riza, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, said on X on Friday that families returning to Nabatieh following the truce "face widespread destruction, lack of basic services, ongoing insecurity and uncertainty".


Londra’nın merkezinde bir Suudi Arabistan vatandaşı bıçaklı saldırıya uğradı ve soyuldu

Londra'daki Suudi Arabistan Büyükelçiliği (Arşiv – Şarku’l Avsat)
Londra'daki Suudi Arabistan Büyükelçiliği (Arşiv – Şarku’l Avsat)
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Londra’nın merkezinde bir Suudi Arabistan vatandaşı bıçaklı saldırıya uğradı ve soyuldu

Londra'daki Suudi Arabistan Büyükelçiliği (Arşiv – Şarku’l Avsat)
Londra'daki Suudi Arabistan Büyükelçiliği (Arşiv – Şarku’l Avsat)

Suudi Arabistan vatandaşı bir kişi, perşembe akşamı Londra’nın merkezinde uğradığı soygun sırasında bıçaklandı. Sosyal medya kullanıcıları, olayın meydana geldiği ünlü Mayfair bölgesine polis araçlarının geldiğini gösteren görüntüleri paylaştı.

Suudi Arabistan’ın Birleşik Krallık Büyükelçiliği dün yaptığı açıklamada, Mayfair bölgesinde bıçaklı saldırıya uğrayan Suudi vatandaşının sağlık durumunu yakından takip ettiğini bildirdi. Büyükelçilik, ilgili makamlarla koordinasyon halinde olduğunu ve vatandaşın hastaneden sağlıklı ve güvenli şekilde taburcu edilmesine kadar gerekli bakım ve desteğin sağlanması için çalıştığını belirtti.

Büyükelçilik, X platformundaki hesabından yaptığı açıklamada, olayın ayrıntılarını ilgili güvenlik birimleriyle birlikte takip ettiğini belirterek, soruşturmanın hızla tamamlanmasının, olayın bütün ayrıntılarının ortaya çıkarılmasının ve sorumluların hukuk çerçevesinde hesap vermesinin önemine dikkat çekti. Ayrıca kamusal alanlarda vatandaşların ve ziyaretçilerin güvenliğini artırmak için gerekli önlemlerin alınması çağrısında bulundu.

Büyükelçilik, Suudi vatandaşlarından dikkatli ve tedbirli olmalarını, kamusal alanlarda değerli eşyalar taşımaktan kaçınmalarını istedi. Acil durumlarda ise Suudi İşleri Hattı ile derhal iletişime geçilmesi çağrısı yaptı.


Trump Calls Iran Conflict ‘Small Potatoes’ and Defends Vance’s Position That It’s Not a ‘War’

 US President Donald Trump attends an event to sign executive orders related to beef, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 4, 2026. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump attends an event to sign executive orders related to beef, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 4, 2026. (Reuters)
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Trump Calls Iran Conflict ‘Small Potatoes’ and Defends Vance’s Position That It’s Not a ‘War’

 US President Donald Trump attends an event to sign executive orders related to beef, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 4, 2026. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump attends an event to sign executive orders related to beef, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 4, 2026. (Reuters)

President Donald Trump on Friday said the conflict in Iran is “small potatoes” as he defended Vice President JD Vance for asserting that months of on-and-off attacks in the Middle East are not a “war.”

Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance’s comments made a day earlier, Trump said US strikes on Iran are now “intermittent” and “a lot of people don’t call it a war." The conflict has cost US taxpayers more than $37.5 billion and left 18 US service members dead.

“I can understand what he’s saying,” said Trump. He added: “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing."

Vance, during a White House press briefing Thursday, rejected the use of the word “war” to describe the US fighting with Iran and steered clear of predicting that the six-month-old conflict would be over by November’s midterm elections, in which Republicans are trying to hang on to their narrow majorities in Congress.

“I wouldn’t call it a war,” Vance said after being asked about whether the fighting could end before voters cast their ballots in the Nov. 3 elections. “Right now, there is no active shooting.”

Vance’s assertion came even as Iran fired at Kuwait on Thursday in retaliation for rounds of US strikes on Iran earlier in the week.

Trump in Friday's exchange with reporters added that the US death toll in the Iran conflict is relatively lower than some other recent US wars. The US and Israel have only carried out air strikes in the Iran war, which began Feb. 28, and have not deployed troops into the country.

“We did Venezuela and we did this. In Venezuela, we lost nobody,” said Trump, referring to the January US military operation to seize former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to New York City to face federal drug trafficking charges. “And this, we lost 18 people. And, in Vietnam we lost 100,000 people. And in other conflicts, we lost tens of thousands of people.”

A total of 58,220 members of the US armed forces died during the Vietnam War, according to records from the US National Archives.

Pressed by a reporter on describing the conflict as “small potatoes" when 18 US service members have been killed, Trump responded by reiterating his argument that the conflict — one that he said at the outset of the war would last a matter of weeks — has led to the defanging of Iran's nuclear program.

“Iran will not have a nuclear weapon because if they did you probably wouldn’t be standing here,” Trump said.