IN THIS MONOLOGUE | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

“Before, you could count how many buildings they destroyed. Now, you count how many buildings they didn’t destroy” — Tarneem Jaber

Tarneem Jaber (19 yrs old) was starting her first week of med school on October 7th. Her brother Ahmad (21 yrs old) was in his third year of dental school with only two remaining. Hamza, the oldest (24 yrs old), was supposed to graduate this June: He was a volunteer at Al-Shifa until it was obliterated.

The three siblings survived the destruction of their home, food shortages, a long journey to the border, and finding an apartment to rent in Cairo, Egypt. Only a few weeks later they were doing an interview on zoom with a Canadian for a feminist podcast they’d never heard of, telling the story of what they lived and what goes on for the loved ones they left behind.

Each of the Jaber siblings chooses a monologue to read: Hamza reads #30: Yasmeen Abu Amer. Ahmad reads #8: Ehab Elayan. Tarneem reads #13: Reema El Sadi. "We relate to every single word in this monologue," Tarneem says.

"But this war, is worse than anything we lived before."

Support them to complete their mother's parting wish: to finish their education. Thrust into complete independence and faced with international student fees and paying over again for years they already completed, these three brilliant students need your help to fix problems they never should have had to face. Please follow our link: https://gofund.me/854be259

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0:00.0	Hey there. It's Robin from PRX. I'm very excited to tell you that Wait for It is back for season 2.
0:07.0	That's right, the Tribeca selected Three Time Ambie Award Winning Show is back with new stories and conversations
0:14.2	about the ways we feel about weight. This season host Ronald Young Jr. is
0:18.8	talking about grief, air travel, fat camp, and of course the word that feels inescapable right now, Ozempick.
0:27.0	Guests include fat marathon runner Martinez Evans, Aubrey Gordon of maintenance phase, and
0:32.2	his sister Marilyn,
0:33.6	for a deeply personal conversation about a recent loss.
0:36.9	Subscribe to wait for it today,
0:38.7	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:41.6	Hi, it's me K.P. Before the episode begins, two housekeeping items. Number one, everything that you are about to hear is 100
1:00.6	percent real, 100% true.
1:05.0	All of the sounds that you hear in this episode are
1:09.0	sent to us from the phones of the people that you hear speaking. The things that you hear in the
1:14.8	recordings are things that happened close enough to them that they could take out their phone and
1:19.2	videotape it and get the sounds that you hear. We use the sounds that each person sent us in the
1:27.4	section where they speak. So you can imagine the person speaking,
1:33.0	standing with their phone recording, the sounds that you're hearing.
1:37.5	We didn't take any creative license
1:41.4	other than adding music here and there.
1:44.0	It was tricky organizing this interview.
1:47.0	There were six different schedules trying to line up,
1:49.0	and so the moment that they finally lined up
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