I'm going to be able to be

And one story that always kind of captures my imagination

The street's lost culture

And you're listening to Kearning Cultures

I'm Alex Atack standing in for Dana this week,

and this is cunning cultures, stories from the Middle East and North Africa,

and the spaces in between. So right now, the only thing that surrounds us are olive trees.

And it really feels like it's the only thing you see

until you can't see anything else.

This is Sarah Ben Ramdan showing producer Zena Doida around her family farm,

where the olive trees stretch in a checkered pattern all the way to the horizon.

So the soil, this one, is quite sandy.

Of course, it can get green if it rains, which we hope it will rain.

But right now, it hasn't rained so much.

So it's mostly beige-colored sand.

And then you've got trees, which respectively have quite a big trunk because they're old.

And then the branches

sort of surround

the trunk

and then fall back

to cover it

as we walk up

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