The Sharon Shannon album cover does not include lyrics, which include both Irish and Egyptian (Egyptian Arabic, I presume)- so the latter will have to be transliterated here, though I would like to have both transliteration and Arabic lettering (I don't suppose the server will support the latter?)

The song has also been released as a single with proceeds to go to a fund for Palestinian children. There is a launch this week I think - there was a notice in the newspaper "Lá" yesterday and it was also mentioned in an Irish Palestine Solidarity newsletter - but I don't have copies; I see on the internet that there was a launch in Galway back on 13 March.

Here is another interesting article about the Elsafty family:http://www.rte.ie/tv/leargas/2004/prog9/
the article is in connection with a tv programme screened earlier this year, so if you are looking at this thread after 2004 maybe the article will be gone from the RTE archives.