AHMA-NOLOGUE | An Anniversary + A Birthday
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode was named months ago: a prayer, a wish shared by one Tarneem Jaber and one Kaitlin Prest. "THE GENOCIDE IS A MEMORY, NOT AN ANNIVERSARY". The genocide has gotten even more terrifying as we mark an entire year of slaughter, terror and complacency. Attacks are now zeroing in on the North of Gaza: the home of Ahmad Tarneem and Hamza. Every day, sometimes every hour they try to call their mother and oldest brother (and his wife, who just had a baby) who are still there, with no way to escape.
At the same time, we reflect on an entire year of collaboration, awakening and creation. Ahmad Jaber celebrates a birthday that only reminds him of a year of his youth he has lost. In the penultimate episode of the series, KP, Ahmad, Tarneem and the rest of the team take stock of the past, the future and the way we and the world will never be the same.
Help Ahmad Jaber enroll in University HERE. THE UPDATE: it is half way through the semester, he was accepted at a University in Turkey that will allow him to continue from where he left off! He cannot enroll unless we can make enough for tuition: 7k remaining!
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| 1:16.8 | October 1st. Remember you tell me something and I tell you something like about October will be |
| 1:20.5 | different or something will happen and will change and I was telling you like maybe it |
| 1:25.9 | will end in the same day that it starts. |
| 1:28.3 | I named this episode months ago. |
| 1:32.1 | I show you. |
| 1:33.0 | Drop date. |
| 1:34.0 | 10 slash 7 slash 2024. |
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