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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
In the beginning I didn't know what he was doing. I knew when I got together with him.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Okay, that doesn't matter .
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Mrs.Barakat, give me your name?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Mina Barakat.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
And when did you come to America?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
I came with Columbus.
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[laughter]
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Which year?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
1913
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[overlapping voices]
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
And where were you born?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
In Jdeidet Marjeyoun.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
And how old were you when you came to America?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
14 years old.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Did you come alone or with your family?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
No, I came with somebody, with my father and mother.
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[laughter]
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
I couldn't come by myself.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
With your family. You came straight to Detroit?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
No. I went to North Dakota.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
What brought you to North Dakota?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
South Dakota. My uncle there.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Oh, I see.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
And my sister.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
What were they doing in North Dakota?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
They have a sale, they have a wholesale grocer, I mean ,uh, dry goods, dry goods.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Dry goods store?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Mm-hm.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
And then you came here.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
No! I went to Illinois.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Why?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Yeah. From Illinois, I went to Wisconsin.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Which Illinois, why to Illinois?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Uh, no I got married in North Dakota and then I went to Illinois, to Canton Illinois.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Canton Illinois?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Mm-hm.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
What did you do there?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
We got married there.
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[laughter]
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
What did I do other than that?
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
What did Mr.Barakat do then? What was his work?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Mr.Rashid.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Mr.Rashid.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
He used to sell purses/bags, in a kiosk, as a street vendor.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Yes I know, but then you got married?
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
To Mr.Barakat.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
No, Mr.Rashid.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
To Mr. Rashid!
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Mm-hm.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
Oh, excuse me! I see.
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
And then? Go ahead, tell me.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
Then, a boy courted me. Became my husband, when I was 19 years old.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
And I got married--
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{SPEAKER name="Someone in Background"}
[[In Arabic, in Arabic.]]
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
[[In Arabic?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Dr.Naff"}
No, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
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{SPEAKER name="M.Barakat"}
I got married when--
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Transcription Notes:
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT FOR REVIEW OR APPROVAL IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TRANSCRIBE ARABIC. Need Arabic speaker. Nearly entire recording is in Arabic I provided Arabic translations (in appropriate context). Words that I couldn't understand because of the dialect were indicated by [?]. I believe the interviewer is Dr.Naff (Dr. Alixa Naff). These recordings are cut mid-sentence at the end, and Lebanese speakers would be best suited to review and catch any mistakes in translation due to dialect.