4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 47 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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0:38.7 | The show, The Country in Our Hearts, tells a story of how that came to be. It's from WPLN, |
0:44.0 | Nashville Public Radio. Host and reporter Rose Gilbert takes you on a journey from Nashville |
0:49.0 | all the way to northern Iraq and back again, tracing the story of one Kurdish family and their generations-long |
0:55.6 | fight to exist. It's four episodes. This is the final episode in the series. |
1:05.6 | It's been months since I returned from Kurdistan, but I've kept in touch with the people |
1:09.8 | I met there. |
1:10.7 | Hi, how are you? Including Haleen and her mother Fausia, Aron's aunt and cousin, who, you may recall, |
1:17.3 | had been there visiting. Haleen and I had hiked the route the family fled decades before. |
1:23.8 | Today, we're all back in Nashville. It's springtime, and they've invited me over to make Kodas, little stuffed pastries that I first sampled back in Chalki. You need a taste in, tell me how sweet it is. Like, do you think it's like overly sweet? Do you think you can just do more sweetness? We're in the final days of Ramadan. For observant Muslims like these women, that means no food or water until sundown. |
1:46.8 | So it's my job to taste test the pastry filling, a ground mixture of coconut, spices, and sugar. |
1:52.5 | That's good. That's good. It's sweet, but not too sweet right now. |
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