[2][3][4] The song is an homage to Egypt, Dalida's birthplace, and is considered representative of the nationalistic pride felt by many Egyptians.

A sequence of chords, based on a cycle of fifths (F minor - B-flat - E-flat), leads each strophe of the song away from the minor and into the relative major, E-flat major.

Then, an applied dominant chord (D major) interrupts the sequence leading to the dominant (music) chord of G7 which brings each strophe home to the original tonality of C minor.

[8] The song was also registered in French as "Comment l'oublier" in 1981, in Spanish (despite the Italian title) as "Io t'amerò" in 1984 and remixed in Spanish for the album Le rêve oriental in 1998.

It was also recorded by the Lebanese singer Elissa in 2014 in her album Halet Hob.