a kurdish arabic night out

we arrived in a rougher city called Urfa, with incredible angry car drivers. in this city there is a story about Abraham and a fish pond and something with fire. the fishes are still there and nobody eats them because they’re holy.

It’s a religious city with lot of different ethnicities. for the first time we felt not so welcomed - until our badass host Aisha drove by with her old car blasting rap songs from the 00es. she hardly stopped and yelled: Yallah get in honey. We loved her from the very first moment.

She took us to dinner and she even managed to make all the very angry men smile. Somehow she was a main character in an old sex and the city soap opera just replace sex and way more patriarchy.

We stayed in her apartment for two nights with two cats. It was refreshing to meet a young woman living her life within the cruel judgment of society.

She took us dancing and made us really drunk!Read more