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المقهى الصغير في أصيلة
The Little Café in Asilah
Layla arrives in the Asilah medina with one suitcase and a plan to sell, unlocks her late grandmother's tiny café near the ramparts, and the next morning finds a…
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الطعام
Food
He is eating pizza. It is tasty.
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عائلتي
My family
This is my family.
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المقهى الصغير في أصيلة
The Little Café in Asilah
Layla arrives in the Asilah medina with one suitcase and a plan to sell, unlocks her late grandmother's tiny café near the ramparts, and the next morning finds a…
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Food
He is eating pizza. It is tasty.
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My family
This is my family.
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يمكنني فعل الكثير من الأشياء
I can do many things
I can cook.
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ماذا يفعلون
What are they doing?
I am talking.
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تلقي العلاج
Getting medicine
Tom has a toothache. His tooth hurts very much.
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ما هو نوع الموسيقى المفضل لديك؟
What sort of music do you like?
Tulima loves music. She listens to it every day.
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شراء الملابس
Buying clothes
Ali’s shirt is old. He needs a new one.
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البحث عن عمل
Finding a job
Alisha needs to find a job because her family needs money for food and clothes.
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قصة مالك
Malik’s story
My name is Malik and I am 39 years old. I was born in Afghanistan. My religion is different from the main religion in Afghanistan.
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قصة أنطونيو
Agostino’s story
My name is Antonio and I am 51 years old. My job is delivering food by bicycle. I have two daughters, but we hardly ever speak. Their mother and I no longer live…
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الإنجاب
Giving birth
Selamawit is 29 years old. She gave birth to her first child in Eritrea. She and her family had a hard time there, so they decided to go to Italy.
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الطقس
The weather
It is sunny.
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الحديث عن العائلة
Talking about family
“Do you have any family?”
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التحدث عن الطقس
Talking about the weather
“The days are starting to get cold. What is the temperature?”
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التميز للسبب الصحيح
Standing out for the right reason
Edson was born in Angola, just after the country became independent. He was a very tall boy. Because of his height he stood out. The people who were giving weapons to…
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صوت العصافير في الصباح
The sound of birds in the morning
Yulia, her husband, and their little daughter lived in a small, quiet village in Ukraine. Yulia loved being woken every morning by the sound of birds. She never…
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الذهاب إلى النرويج
Coming to Norway
My two brothers and I came to Norway in December 2016. We wore summer clothes because we thought it would be as warm in Norway as it was in Somalia. However, when we…
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الزوج الكبير في العمر
An old man as a husband
I thought Norwegian men were the best men in the world, but that is not true! Before I met the man who became my husband, I worked in a factory in Bangkok, and he…
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أغنية سكيما
Sakima’s song
Sakima lived with his parents and his four year old sister. They lived on a rich man’s land. Their grass-thatched hut was at the end of a row of trees.
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البذرة الصغيرة – حكاية ونقاري ماتهاي
A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai
In a village on the slopes of Mount Kenya in East Africa, a little girl worked in the fields with her mother. Her name was Wangari.
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القَرَارُ
Decision
My village had many problems. We made a long line to fetch water from one tap.
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تُومْ، بَائِعُ المَوْزِ
Tom the banana seller
Tom carries a tray of ripe bananas.
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صغير الحمار
Donkey Child
It was a little girl who first saw the mysterious shape in the distance.
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في عطلة مع الجدة
Holidays with grandmother
Odongo and Apiyo lived in the city with their father. They looked forward to the holidays. Not just because school was closed, but because they went to visit their…
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ماقزوي
Magozwe
In the busy city of Nairobi, far away from a caring life at home, lived a group of homeless boys. They welcomed each day just as it came. On one morning, the boys…
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يوم تركت المنزل ذاهباً إلى المدينة
The day I left home for the city
The small bus stop in my village was busy with people and overloaded buses. On the ground were even more things to load. Touts were shouting the names where their…
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