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Your ID, Haji: Preparations for Ramadan

Your ID, Haji: Preparations for Ramadan

FromIsrael in Translation


Your ID, Haji: Preparations for Ramadan

FromIsrael in Translation

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Length:
7 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In honor of the holy month of Ramadan observed by Muslims worldwide, host Marcela Sulak reads an essay by Iman Jmal, a graduate student at Bar-Ilan University. Jmal is from Jatt in northern Israel and she writes about preparing a Ramadan meal with her mother, the shopping for which they must travel through a checkpoint. Here is an excerpt from her story "The Meal": "When I call upon the soldiers and say that Mom forgot her ID, they get angry. One soldier says "Then go back home and find your mom's ID and she will stay with us until you come again and show us that she is really an Israeli citizen!" My stomach would digest anything in the world but not this sentence. We argue with them for a while and say that they could check on the computer, investigate mom's ID number that she recited to them with a great Hebrew accent, but it is all in vain." Music: Approaching the Bridge - The Bridge Project Notre Wagon - The Bridge Project
Released:
Jun 7, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Exploring Israeli literature in English translation. Host Marcela Sulak takes you through Israel’s literary countryside, cityscapes, and psychological terrain, and the lives of the people who create it.