We’re getting close to the end of our recap and gearing up for Season 2. Enjoy this troubling theme about the stress of leaving home and facing the unknown. We’ll be announcing this year’s themes soon!

What situation, person, or place do you need to say goodbye to?

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READ 📖 CHAPTER 10: OPERATION EXODUS

LISTEN 🎤 S1EP10: FINDING DAD IN ME w/ George Kist

++ Omar’s Listener’s Reflection on the episode.

REFLECT 🧐 GOOD MORNING AMERICA | Writer’s Commentary by Omar
++ FOLLOW YOUR GUT | Reader’s Commentary by Payl

📖 CHAPTER 10: OPERATION EXODUS

The Zemunkes are moving to the US! Maskat is not happy. He will lose his newly gained freedom.

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Chapter 10. Operation Exodus

A few months later, a hot sticky November day in Mombasa witnessed Jay triumphantly driving his car out of the Akasha Transport Company. He remembers it as the moment that changed him forever. There were two things that Jay did not know yet. The first was that his employer - and the owner of the transport company- Ibrahim Akasha, was about to become Keny…

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2 years ago · 1 like · Omar Shaker

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🎤 S1EP10: FINDING DAD IN ME

Would you bring on one of your parents to be a guest on your podcast? Well, we did just that! Paul invites his dad, Dr. George Kist, to join him on a very special episode where they discuss their relationship.

In this episode they cover:

• Immigration, and the risk of leaving it all behind

• Assimilation and identity in the diaspora of ones’ homeland

• The relationship between fathers and sons

• And the experiences that helped mend their relationship

Have you ever thought you are more like your parents than you want to admit? Join us as our host discovers this very thing in conversation with the man that raised him. And pour yourself a glass of Trader Joe’s Secco, while you’re at it.

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Ep10. Finding Dad in Me

Listen now (35 min) | Would you bring on one of your parents to be a guest on your podcast? Well, we did just that! Paul invites his dad, Dr. George Kist, to join him on a very special episode where they discuss their relationship. In this episode they cover: Immigration, and the risk of leaving it all behind…

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a year ago · 5 likes · Omar Shaker and Paul Kist

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🧐 Listener’s Commentary by Omar Shaker

I have to admit something to you guys, Paul and I discussed both of us interviewing our dads, and I chickened out. I simply did not feel that I had the gumption to do it, and the thought of it was terrifying. Paul did though, and what came out is an episode that inspires me and every man in the world, to think of the possibilities that lie in our relationships. No matter how difficult and uncomfortable they can be.

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Ep10. Listeners Commentary

We realize that we have been a little tough on fathers. In the past few episodes, we explored how their traumas can be passed on to us, how we can meet their aggression with boundaries, and how we can break free from it all. This episode is about both son and father hanging their archetypes by the door and engaging in a heartwarming conversation that ta…

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a year ago · Omar Shaker

🧐 Reader’s Commentary | Follow Your Gut (Strong Stomach Required) America by Paul kist

We’re taught from our earliest of ages, to explain and rationalize our feelings and wants. And in a hyper-rationalized world, we have become so disconnected from the true wisdom that lies in each of us. It’s a wisdom, that I believe, is rooted in the truth and intelligence of the universe. That is, of course, if you believe in the interconnectedness of all things.

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Follow Your Gut (Strong Stomach Required)

Chapter 10 takes us to the Zemunke family’s final moments in the home that both they and their fore-bearers had established deep roots in. From the peaceful shores of Lamu Island, a great transatlantic journey begins, as the family would find themselves in America’s Deep South, where a new chapter will certainly await them…

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a year ago · 2 likes · Paul Kist

🧐 Writer’s Commentary | Good Morning America by Omar Shaker

The relationship between Zemunke and Maskat and their failure to meet eye to eye is exactly how it feels to be in America right now. A deep sense of othering, where two counterparts want to go in opposite ways, which would be ok if it weren’t for the mere fact that they are both on the same ship

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Good Morning America

This post can’t be more perfectly timed. Welcome to my commentary on chapter 10 | Operation Exodus, where Professor Zemunke gets rewarded the oh-so-coveted green card and is moving his family of five to the US of A. In this family, is a begrudged Maskat who has only recently started tasting his freedom. We’ve covered a real-life story of this in the…

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2 years ago · 1 like · Omar Shaker

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