4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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WPLN’s Rose Gilbert takes listeners on a journey — from Nashville all the way to northern Iraq and back again — to tell the story of one Kurdish family and its generations-long fight to exist.
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0:44.7 | WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. Host and reporter Rose Gilbert takes you on a journey from Nashville |
0:51.3 | all the way to northern Iraq and back again, tracing the story of one |
0:55.7 | Kurdish family and their generations long fight to exist. It is four episodes. This is episode |
1:01.9 | three. It's my final night in Chalka. Tomorrow, Aran and I will leave the village and return to |
1:10.6 | the city of Dahuk, an hour and a half south. |
1:13.8 | But there's one more place to visit before we go. |
1:16.4 | The cemetery. |
1:19.5 | Aran, Hailene, her mother, a handful of the older aunts, everyone washes and dresses for evening prayers and then bundles into cars. |
1:28.9 | As we drive out of the village, Hailing hands me a purple scarf |
1:32.7 | and shows me how to cover my hair and neck. |
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