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

Resilience

Feb 23rd, 2022 1m 44s

Never let another person’s opinion of you change the way you see yourself.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roxanne

Feb 23rd, 2022 5m 44s

What’s in a name? Can a name change your life trajectory?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Dark Ocean

Feb 23rd, 2022 2m 47s

Yasmeen relives her recurring nightmare and what it feels like to push against the current of her inner and outer world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My Fantasy World

Feb 23rd, 2022 1m 39s

Yasmeen learns how to create a dual reality to cope with the discomfort of feeling misunderstood as a child of Iraqi immigrants.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bird

Feb 23rd, 2022 42s

The Bird sang to himself and lamented about his cage. He sang so loud his voice startled the wind. And threw him so far outside his comfort zone That he had no choice but to flyIt was only then that he realized he was not a caged bird after

Sinan's Journey

Feb 23rd, 2022 26m 59s

Yasmeen speaks with Sinan Al Mokhtar, who was born and raised in Iraq, and came of age in Iraq during the first gulf war. He shares what he and his family had to endure, including the bombing of the hospital that his mother gave birth in to his

Prologue

Feb 23rd, 2022 4m 24s

This is not a story about politics, or war. Instead, this is a story about what it was like to grow up as a child of immigrants who fled a country due to political instability.Yasmeen brings in a selection of voices from the Iraqi diaspora t

Fear or Love

Feb 23rd, 2022 2m 55s

Have we done everything we could to avoid war? Everything? Is there another possibility that could exist without the need to go to war?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Great Silence

Feb 23rd, 2022 11m 54s

Yasmeen relives her journey in choosing a road to love and processing emotions and releasing them as a means of survival. We hear from Hamada Zahawi, an Iraqi-American and international lawyer and educator, and analyst, and again from Sinan Al

Coming Home

Feb 23rd, 2022 3m 3s

Yasmeen returns back to her younger self, this time with a new perspective. Can we change our past to change our future? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Searching for a hero

Feb 23rd, 2022 7m 29s

Yasmeen starts off with a poem that she wrote that was inspired by the film she wrote and co-produced “A Star in the Desert” which follows the life of a young Iraqi boy in Baghdad on the eve of the first Gulf War, as he escapes into a fantastic

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