우리의 이야기| The One with Shama - On Immigration and Storytelling: Episode 34 (2018)

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Meet Shama Farag – an Arabic-English Translator at TED talks, Coursera Global Translator Community. She’s an author and a journalist blogger at HuffPost Arabic, Aljazeera blogs, Sasa post. She is also a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church Interfaith community FIRE “ Fostering Interfaith relationship in Eastside,” a member at MAPS MCOC “Many culture one community,” member of IOC “Interfaith outreach community at Muslim Association of Puget Sound. She is Egyptian and a mom of two boys.

In this episode, we talked about heart stories and immigration, how Africans aren’t really taught about other African countries and what we can do to fix this. We also talked about what it is like being Egyptian, and she gave us reasons why we need to visit Egypt.

Her book, “Hi, I am Syrian” was inspired by some negative experiences she had as a Muslim and she decided to do something to change that narrative.

Shout-out to Salma for making the introductions!

PS: My ignorance about African countries, especially Egypt, shone brightly in this episode.

Question: Why do you think Africans aren’t taught about other African countries?

Takeaway points:

• There are many Arabic dialects – I did not know this.
• Egypt has a lot more to offer than just the pyramid.
• We can use our stories to transform the world around us.

Notable Quote by Shama: “Every calamity you have in your life will treat you a lesson.” السلام عليكم (Peace be unto you), 모 /Mo!/
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