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Transcription: [01:01:39]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]], you know.

[01:01:48]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
[[Arabic]]

[01:01:50]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]] May God go with you, where ever you go.

[01:01:58]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Um.

[01:01:58]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Ma'a Salemie, that means "may you have safe journey", you know.

[01:02:03]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Mhm. Um.

[01:02:06]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]] means you have given us honor by your coming.

[01:02:15]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Ah, [[Arabic]]

[01:02:16]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]] Make it [[Arabic]]

[01:02:19]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Do it again.

[01:02:20]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Do it again and again. [[Arabic]] you know. You'd be surprised how beautiful the words are, it's amazing.

[01:02:29]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Um we went we said...

[01:02:31]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]]

[01:02:45]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Always. If I write to my father, I always say [[Arabic]].

[01:03:00]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Ahh. [[Arabic]]

[01:03:08]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]]

[01:03:19]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Now when an older person, for instance, comes to visit a younger one, they say what?

[01:03:22]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]].

[01:03:27]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
The older person brings the [[Arabic]]

[01:03:29]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Yeah, yeah brings the blessings, naturally. [[Arabic]]

[01:03:34]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Eight months to get their... their consent, and their... their blessing.

[01:03:38]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
Or el-... when he gets married, that is, or else he doesn't get married? Or, or-

[01:03:42]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Well, uh, th- they... if the mother and father says no, there's times when there-

[01:03:47]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
What, what is it that he expects- what is it that the in-laws expect from their daughter in-law or son-in-law?

[01:03:50]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
Well, the daughter-in-law is supposed to be respectful to her mother-in-law,

[01:03:54]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
I know when I went ever, I went to see my mother-in-law, I always went down to kiss her hand. That was customary.

[01:04:02]
{SPEAKER name="Selma Bonahoom"}
And you called her [[Arabic]].

[01:04:04]
{SPEAKER name="Alexander Malik"}
[[Arabic]], my... yeah, [[Arabic]].

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