EPILOGUE | Letter to Gaza
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In 2024 Ashtar Theatre started a new project: letters to Gaza.
When Tarneem sat down to write a letter to her home, this work of poetry emerged in only a couple of hours. We didn't edit a single word.
It’s been 6 months since she left her home in the north of Gaza. Every day she watches the news and prays for her family, her friends, her people. She waits for the world to wake up. She waits to see her pain reflected and acknowledged. Heartbroken and determined she wonders, “are we not even entitled to nostalgia?”
The letter was written and recorded by Tarneem Jaber, age 19. Music and sound design directed by Ahmad Jaber.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome, we come, we'll come, |
| 0:07.0 | welcome, we'll come, we'll come to the heart. |
| 0:10.0 | Great love, the Gaza Monologues revisited. |
| 0:17.0 | Minchamele I have said, |
| 0:18.0 | Echaim Bicum Philchul. I'm Tername Japr. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Tername Jabhabr. |
| 0:27.0 | And this is my show. |
| 0:30.0 | A log. |
| 0:32.0 | A letter to Gaza, written by Tarname Jabber sound designed by Ahmed Jabber. Action. |
| 0:45.0 | Action. |
| 0:47.0 | Action, action, action action. Our great love to our country is greater than our hatred to our enemy. our |
| 1:03.0 | love is our motive not hated. |
| 1:07.0 | That's why we shall win. |
| 1:08.8 | We were ruefel. |
| 1:11.1 | We were r, refugees, homeless. We became now even entitled to nostalgia. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey, are you okay? |
| 1:32.0 | Hey, are you okay? and have a sum to all in the zubabh. |
| 1:44.0 | Haludrichul my julafina, |
| 1:48.0 | and no gan me is lema kunha no, no. Are we not even entitled to a woman? |
| 1:55.0 | O'A link me. |
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