sentences:  Any Jbala musician and singer, who is often also a ‘poet’ and even an ‘artist’ (because Jebli poetry does not exist without music and performance and a local poet almost always sings his own songs, accompanying himself with a musical instrument) will usually tell an outsider the legend of Tariq Bnu Ziad, the famous conqueror of Spain, his trip through the Straights of Gibraltar (Jabal Tariq, the Mountain of Tariq, hence Gibraltar), and the sad end of Arab rule in Spain.The sense of cultural continuity between the Jbala region and Andalusia is very strong even today .The traditional Jebli poetry has the following general characteristics