MONOLOGUE#1: AHMAD // ALI | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ali Dajani grew up in Jordan and studied in Canada, where he met KP, the friend that sits down with him in his Amsterdam home to read Gaza Monologue #1: the story of Ahmad El Ruzzi. Ali's paternal grandfather left Jerusalem in 1948. "What happened in 1948?" our radio friend asks. They both laugh. She apologizes for her ignorance. He begins to explain.
Discussions of whether the cute-ass canals and oh-my-god-there’s-a-boat’s will become his permanent home frame the recording of the first monologue in Ashtar Theatre’s play:
Ahmad El Ruzzi from Al Wehda street, who was 17 years old when he wrote the story of his experience of power outages, trust issues and karma.
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| 1:17.0 | A one arm I carry an olive ranch and of my shoulder I carry my coffin as I walk as I walk my coffin as I walk as I walk my my heart is red, my heart is a garden. My lips are a sky that rain, my |
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