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Hey Everyone,
Know
One Can Still Live Anywhere
In This World Without
Any Apprehension
I was wandering around the Albuquerque airport in the US. My flight had been delayed, and I heard an announcement : "If anyone near Gate A-4 understands Arabic, please come to the gate immediately."Gate A-4 was my own gate I went there.
An older woman was crumpled on the floor,wailing. In her traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, she reminded me of my grandmother.
"Talk to her,"urged the flight agent.
"We told her the flight was going to be late, and she did this."
I stooped to put in my arm around the woman and spoke haltingly.
"Shu-dow-u, shu-bid-uck,habibti? Stani Schway,min fadlick,shu-bitse-wee?"
She stopped crying. She thought the flight had been cancelled. She needed to be in El Paso,Texas,for a medical treatment the next day. I said,"You'll get there, just late. Who is picking you up? Let's call him."
We called her son. In English,I told him that I would stay with his mother until we got on the plane. She talked with him. Then we called her other sons just for fun. Then we called my dad, and they spoke for a while in Arabic and found out that they had shared ten friends. After that, I called some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her.
She was laughing a lot by then,patting my knee,answering questions. She pulled a sack homemade mamool cookies - little crumbly stuffed with dates and nuts and topped with sugar from her bag and offered them to the women at the gate. To my amazement, no one declined. I t was like a sacrament. The traveller from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo we were all smiling, covered with the same sugar.
I looked around the gate and thought,This is the world I want to live in, One with no apprehension.
This can still happen anywhere, Not everything is lost.
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Sameer
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