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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Anna Holligan spends time with Dutch Muslim Nora Akachar, whose world was turned upside down with the traditional progressive country voted for right-wing politician Geert Wilders. Nora is left questioning her identity and what it means for her to be Muslim in the Netherlands today.
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0:00.0 | Alice. |
0:03.0 | Meet Nora. |
0:05.0 | This is my name is Stan Amira. |
0:06.0 | Oh yeah, this is a detroso, |
0:08.0 | Miskinne. |
0:09.0 | A successful actress. |
0:11.0 | A madras |
0:12.0 | presenter. successful actress, presenter, and |
0:14.4 | my name is Nora Akush. |
0:16.3 | And all-round entertainer. |
0:18.3 | That's so crazy. |
0:35.0 | Noo Akashara is at the top of her game, one of the Netherlands most prominent Dutch Moroccan stars. However, the unexpected victory of an anti-Islam politician has left Nora questioning her future. |
0:44.0 | When it's unsafe for us to be here as Muslims, |
0:48.0 | what can I do? |
0:50.0 | I'm Anna Holligan, you're listening to the documentary on the BBC World Service. |
0:55.3 | For this episode of Heart and Soul I'm speaking to Dutch TV star Nora |
1:01.0 | about whether she can stay in a country that's just taking a sharp right turn. Right now I'm cycling through a part of the Netherlands, although it's rice in the hearse of the Hague, you've probably |
1:25.8 | never heard of it. |
1:28.8 | You've probably never been. |
1:31.5 | There are halal chickens, golden brown turning on scures outside a rock and |
1:41.3 | bakery fashion boutique selling puffer jackets and |
1:45.2 | hijab. Every now and then I catch the sweet scent of shisha smoke or freshly baked baklava. So I'm just parking my bike in Shelders Bike, which is the area of the Hague where |
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