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Mandalawi: A family smiled. Thanks to you!
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Out and About Reviews. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. A family smiled. Thanks to you! Loyal reader, no matter where you are in the world,. I was humbled by the number of inboxes and emails from the last post. A little money has also been donated for daily school expenses for next year. Both these will be taken to them on a monthly bases. This has been promised by a lovely one. These were all delivered a day before Jezhn (Eid). Another dear one is following up with the mother’s health condition, her medic...
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Mandalawi: Change the life of a family. Please!
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Out and About Reviews. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Change the life of a family. Please! Today I met a woman who is in pain, she is in pain physically, mentally and her heart is broken into a million pieces, yet she smiles and is thankful. I sit here tonight in the comfort of my own home feeling guilty. Sometimes life, my dear reader, is indeed unfair to some people. Today in a village outside of Erbil my wonderful friend Saza. Would you like to help someone this Ramadan, do you have Zakat money? Pay off the...
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Mandalawi: Stigmatizing Spinsters
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Out and About Reviews. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. This week I have a handful of ramblings but will keep it at one issue in particular. In the office we had a guest who was the founder of a local NGO/ women’s center. She left behind her business card, later one of the staff pointed out that the center/ NGO was for widowed women and spinsters. That’s right,. A pitiless society who is always ready to stigmatize. In my society if a spinster, or. Some fall in the trap and do that, others don’t, but live w...
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Mandalawi: Let's visit grandma's kitchen!
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Out and About Reviews. Monday, April 27, 2015. Let's visit grandma's kitchen! April 27, 2015. My dearest loyal blog reader,. Take me to my grandmother’s kitchen, take me to her cozy home filled with love and care. Take me to her kitchen where every corner has a memory, where black and white photographs here and there make the past part of the present. Good time spent with the girls, Saza Muhamad and I at Pura Parwin’s restaurant. Of course, in the company of Pura Parwin herself. I met Pura Parwin in the ...
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Mandalawi: December 2014
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Out and About Reviews. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Loyal Blog Readers, here is the final post for a year that was packed with everything bitter and sweet,. While doing peer education training with the refugee youth. Life changing moments with my Peer Education co-trainer, Rasti Nuri Brimo. You were sweet in all your ways. IDP camp, where many fled their homes after ISIS threats. Your bitterness left deep wounds behind. Our youth peer educators at the refugee camp. Photo: By me at Mam Khalil's teahouse.
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Mandalawi: April 2015
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Out and About Reviews. Monday, April 27, 2015. Let's visit grandma's kitchen! April 27, 2015. My dearest loyal blog reader,. Take me to my grandmother’s kitchen, take me to her cozy home filled with love and care. Take me to her kitchen where every corner has a memory, where black and white photographs here and there make the past part of the present. Good time spent with the girls, Saza Muhamad and I at Pura Parwin’s restaurant. Of course, in the company of Pura Parwin herself. I met Pura Parwin in the ...
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Mandalawi: Mandalawi has moved!
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Out and About Reviews. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Loyal readers of mandalawi.blogspot.com. Just a quick note to say the blog has now moved to www.mandalawi.me. In terms of design and look/ feel it still needs some work. Please be patient with me as I learn my way through. In the meantime, please don't hestitate to subscribe over there to get notifications for new posts. Every now and then I will update the blogspot with all the blogposts to keep as a backup. Sazan M. Mandalawi. Sazan M. Mandalawi.
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Mandalawi: January 2015
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Out and About Reviews. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Young women of Kurdistan- The change maker series: Part I. Loyal blog readers,. I am on a mission. Of all the great and wonderful and amazing and just… super great people that cross my everyday life I will post an eight week series. One Kurdistani girl a week on the blog. I want to introduce you to these remarkable young women who are full of energy, inpiration and are sources of hope. She resembles hope, strength, coexistance, love and team work. Althou...
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Mandalawi: October 2014
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Out and About Reviews. Friday, October 31, 2014. From Erbil to Notting Hill. Dear Loyal Blog Readers,. I love anything that allows young Kurdish woman to be part of activities and events. In particular reading; something very lousy in my part of the world (don't get me started on the bit where we don't even have proper book shops, you know the Waterstones type, nor a decent local library. Anyyyhow). This is where Poppy comes in, bringing her book club to Kurdistan. Poppy Loves Book Club. Lots of love from.