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Feb 2022
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The Day Everything Changed

HAKAWATI | حكواتي
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There are moments in our lives that can change the way we see the world in an instant. In this episode, Yasmeen re-lives her experience of the day everything in her life changed in a Chicago suburb at the age of 8, on the day the first gulf war began in 1991.

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