Preserving Our Identities with May El Calamawy

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Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In Episode 3, we talk to May El Calamawy who stars in the upcoming American comedy series titled "Ramy” which is set to premiere on April 19th on Hulu. The show follows the life of a first-generation Egyptian American Muslim learning to balance his dual-identity. May plays Dena, Ramy’s younger sister, who struggles to live her life under her Egyptian family’s rules and all of the double standards that come with it. We dive into the importance of representation in the media, why more you...

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode three of unsweetened and unfiltered.
0:14.4	Hope everybody's having a great day because Zana and I are, it's 50s.
0:18.2	So happy.
0:18.9	It's in the sky.
0:20.6	I love it.
0:21.3	My seasonal effect of this order is slowly vanishing because it's a real thing.
0:26.6	It is.
0:26.9	My lude is 100% better when the weather's good and the sun is out.
0:31.1	Like it's not a normal.
0:32.2	Like I don't feel normal.
0:33.4	Like how do I completely change who I am?
0:35.2	Just because the weather is nice out, I'm like a whole new person.
0:38.9	So happy.
0:39.7	I'm like the nicest person.
0:40.8	This winter was so tough.
0:42.4	It was.
0:43.3	But I think you're being a little dramatic because you're a Florida girl.
0:45.5	Oh my God.
0:46.0	I actually, actually like sat in my car and cried multiple time because I was school. I wonder if you were here for the winter where it was like, well, wait, we did have a polar
0:55.7	vortex this year.
0:56.7	Yeah, it was negative 30 or something.
0:58.0	But my eyelashes is in a freeze this year.
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