نور ليل

by hilaryreinhart

For a short amount period of time, let us forget all these Icha, Putri, and Queensha as several examples of the most popular names and set our sight into Layla or Laila or Lela. She might not be so famous nowadays but people had crafted her name in so many ways. You could find Eric Clapton begged her to ease his mind or listen how Oasis ask her if the stars were about to fall. Also, as Nurlela, she danced cha-cha-cha while played bongo with Bing Slamet and nurtured Si Doel in the rural area of Jakarta in the 90s. And amongst those Laylas, I want to single out the one of whom the story I just read: Nizami Ganjavi’s Layla.

Without a doubt, this Layla fascinates me the most. Her life, mostly, was a tragedy and her love story was so remarkable, people include it along with the Romeo-Juliet and Sampek-Engtay romance tragedy. It is a story on