A Recipe for Survival

Snap Judgment

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Coffee is the love language for two Gaza journalists Shrouq and Roshdi. But one morning at breakfast, their little family life is torn apart. Now, Shrouq must navigate a war, motherhood and the disappearing memories of love. And -- the story of a 10-year-old girl with a magnetic smile who makes magic out of breadcrumbs on a rooftop in Gaza and the internet is eating it up.

STORIES

After Roshdi

Thank you so much, Shrouq, for sharing your story with us.

Produced by Ashley Cleek, Regina Bediako, and Shaina Shealy. Edited by Nancy López and Anna Sussman. Original score by Renzo Gorrio. Artwork by Teo Ducot.

Chef Renad

A 10-year-old girl with a magnetic smile who makes magic out of breadcrumbs on a rooftop in Gaza and the internet is eating it up.

Many thanks to Chef Renad and her sister Nourhan Attallah. You can find Chef Renad on Youtube or Instagram.

Special thanks to the Committee to Protect Journalists for sharing their extensive reporting from the Gaza Strip.

Produced by Shaina Shealy. Edited by Nancy López. Translation by Ansam Ismail Kalloub. Recording by Shrouq.

Season 16 - Episode 9

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0:00.0	Snap Studios
0:07.0	One of the things that surprised me about doing this show and the generosity of people in impossible situations who let us into their lives is learning
0:25.1	that there is laughter.
0:27.5	Laughter on death row.
0:30.6	Laughter on the front lines.
0:32.5	Laughter holding a friend's hand in hospice.
0:35.3	Laughter.
0:36.9	And I've always felt that this laughter, this joy,
0:42.3	it feels like an assertion,
0:45.3	declaring that whatever you take from me,
0:50.3	you can even take my life, but you can't take this.
0:56.8	This you can't have.
1:00.1	What is this?
1:04.6	This humanity, this defiance, this spirit, this hope. This is my.
1:09.0	Well, today, from KQD's Snap Judgment Studios, we proudly present a story about this.
1:17.6	We're calling it a recipe for survival.
1:22.4	My name is from Washington.
1:25.0	May you too always have this.
1:28.3	And you're listening.
1:32.0	Snap judgment. Today's story takes to the front lines of a war.
1:55.8	In fact, the deadliest war for journalists in modern history.
1:59.4	Since October 7, 2023, nearly 150 journalists have been killed in the most recent Gaza-Israel
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