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workshop: community - Leila, Nisserine and Lama
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Smile despite old age and time. Abu Ra'ad was born in 1917 and his birth was registered in 1922. Notes from the interview with him -- "His experience is vast and he shares his reflections on his life and his strong attachment to the past and to the community that once was. He is " a mountain that cannot be shaken by the winds however small seeds can grow and become trees on its earth." His life is simple and there is an innocence attached to his past life of family, God, honesty and simplicity of caring for others." |
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Abu Ra'ad carries a different cane depending on the occasion. He takes great care in his appearance and has a strong sense of his own identity. | ||||||||||||
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Abu Ra'ad and his wife in their home. They live in a simple traditional house where many of the objects in the house are quite old but still in use. They also have areas of the home which have gone untouched for years to preserve the memory of a time past. | ||||||||||||
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This is Abu Ra'ad's identification card and amongst these documents is another card which is important in his life - his doctor's card. His national identification card shows his birth date as five years after his actual date of birth. But Abu Ra'ad is pride of his age and quick to point out the discrepancy and tell you his true age. He's lived those years and his proud of doing so. | ||||||||||||
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Gathering information and interviewing Abu Ra'ad | ||||||||||||
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A traditional lantern and candle holder - reminders of the past and also of use today when the electricity is cut off. | ||||||||||||
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Abu Ra'ad drinking from the water vessel - he commented that although his life is strongly attached to the past and those items in his home which keep some connection to the past in his immediate environment - he also accepts the new and managed to cope with new things such as drinking from this water jar. | ||||||||||||
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Use of body language as Abu Ra'ad is deaf. | ||||||||||||
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Old fashioned traditional kitchen which although no longer in use, it is kept exactly as one would find it had they ventured into his home years ago. Abu Ra'ad keeps the items in the kitchen in the exact same spots as a remembrance and makes sure that no one ever rearranges or disturbs them. He wants these things that are attached to strong memories for him to be left in place. | ||||||||||||
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