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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"} Faris, you gonna be okay. Wake up, son [speaking Arabic].

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When he was a child in the old country, he used to love dogs. And because his mother used to bake for these rich people, he used to save all the pieces of bread, you know, because they don't even take dogs in the houses over there. They just... sleep any place.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"} [indistinct acknowledgement]

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And he used to go and feed the dogs when he was a child. And she said to him, [speaking Arabic].

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"} He woke up—

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"} Do you think he was unconscious very long?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"} He doesn't know how long he was unconscious, but when he woke up, he felt his feet wet. He thought it was water, from the river.

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Yet, he was a little ways from the water, he couldn't understand how the water got to his feet.

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So he took his shoes off, and it wasn't water, it was blood. His feet had cracked from the weight. The bottoms of his feet.

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My father told us that so many times.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"} How did he walk?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"} So he took his shoes off, and his stockings were all full of blood. He went to the river, and he washed his shoes and his stockings, and he washed his feet in the water of the river.

[00:12:55] And he had towels in his case that he sold, and stocks— men's socks. He dried his feet real good, and he put on their socks.

[00:13:05] And put on his shoes again and walked again.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"} I've never heard him tell that story.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"} So he wrote to my grandmother, in the old country, what happened to him, and how he dreamt that she was telling him

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so she went and got two big, uh, bags of flour— not bags, you know they get it in measure— ah, mudd [speaking Arabic]

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and she baked the bread and she didn't give a soul one bite of it, but she took it all over the town to the dogs.

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She fed all the dogs.


Transcription Notes:
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT FOR REVIEW OR APPROVAL IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TRANSCRIBE ARABIC. The term Mudd for flour measurement assumed based on ancient Islamic measures