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Details her experience leaving family behind, the journey from Zakho to Turkey, five months spent in a refugee camp in Guam, seeking asylum in the United States, and her first residence in the United States in Erie, Pennsylvania. Describes her family and their support of women’s education. Discusses her degree in business with a focus on statistics from a university in Iraq. Mahdi describes her assimilation into American society and life in Harrisonburg. Topics discussed include women’s rights, education, the Covid-19 pandemic, multilingualism, asylum-seeking, and Iraqi Kurdish resettlement. Recounts learning English as a foreign language and fluency in Kurdish and Arabic. Discusses her multiple careers in Harrisonburg as an interpreter, hairstylist, and business owner. Recounts explosion caused by a natural gas leak at Miller Circle in Harrisonburg, Virginia on October 17, 2020, which decimated Naza Salon and Barber Shop. 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Hi, I'm Candy Foster and I'm a student in the English 360 class at JMU. And this is Salwa and we're going to talk about her immigrant experience in Harrisonburg, Virginia. What is your full name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1.56,17.49"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Salwa Mahdi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=17.82,19.08"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And what's it been like for you living in Harrisonburg?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=20.55,22.98"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: It's nice. I like Harrisonburg. It's quiet. Very small city compared to other cities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=25.38,32.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: What's your favorite place? Where's your favorite place to go in Harrisonburg.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=34.35,37.95"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Go to the park. There isn't a lot of places to go but usually go to the parks. There is  some lake we go at the summertime.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=42.12,53.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=54.0,54.45"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And is some - I used to take my daughter to a water park, at Massanutten. And I take her to other parks. And there is some lake we go. But, at the winter time, there isn't a lot of places to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=55.14,77.58"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, who lives in the house? in your house?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=79.32,83.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Me, my daughter, and my husband.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=83.97,86.1"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. And what country are you from originally?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=86.52,90.45"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I'm originally from North of Iraq.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=91.2,93.78"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And is that Kurdistan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=96.24,99.03"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Kurdistan. Yes. Part of the - part of Kurdistan because Kurdistan divided into four pieces, like they gave Kish to Iraq, and Syria, Turkey, and Iran. So, I'm at the part where Iraq is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=99.3,121.77"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And why did you leave Kurdistan and Iraq?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=123.78,128.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: My immigrant status. I'm asylum. At that time, we used to work for some organization in 1996 and Saddam Hussein was in your power. And he was decided to, if those organization leave Iraq and go back to their country, he was saying, \"I will kill everybody work with these organization and help them\",. And I used to work with one of those organization and they decided to bring us here. So, we were like 7,000 people when we came in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=130.08,174.93"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=175.5,176.1"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=176.13,176.76"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And tell, tell me again, when did you leave?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=178.32,180.96"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  It was October 1996, when I left Iraq, and they took us to an island called Guam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=181.86,193.53"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh, Guam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=194.94,195.72"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Guam. And we stayed there for five months. Everybody's different. They were trying to prepare some paperwork for us because when I came in, I did not have even a passport.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=195.75,208.41"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=208.89,209.49"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: We came in - just they give us a little number, like a little piece of paper, and there's a number on it. Then, we stayed there until they prepare, like employment card, social, social security card for us. Then, they brought us to Erie, Pennsylvania. That was my first home. And I stayed there for a year. It was just me and my brother at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=210.0,242.88"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Okay, and so how old were you when you left?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=244.23,247.26"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I was 31.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=248.49,249.84"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. Well, so let me see if I have this correct. It was, when you left Iraq, you were fearing for your life because Saddam Hussein had threatened to kill the people that were working for the organization where you were working.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=250.32,267.99"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=268.26,268.77"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. And so you and a number of other people were first taken to Guam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=269.28,275.61"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=276.3,276.84"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: To get your visas ready to, to be granted asylum in the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=277.53,283.23"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: That's correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=283.71,284.55"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. And you, so what were the conditions like in Iraq when you left like economic, social, political?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=284.88,294.36"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: At that time, it wasn't so bad. It was bad because, it wasn't so bad economically. But it was bad like, because Saddam Hussein still, was in power.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=295.5,315.9"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=316.26,316.74"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And - but it was hard to leave. You know, when you leave your country, it's a little bit scary and hard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=317.4,326.82"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Of course. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=327.27,327.99"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  And you don't know what you gonna face when you go to different country. And -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=328.02,335.28"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, you were very brave to do that. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=339.3,342.87"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=343.14,343.74"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh my gosh. So, what was life like for women there? Was it different than what life was like for men?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=344.7,351.21"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: In the part, it was a little bit hard. Like that culture is different, completely. If you compare the culture here, over there. It's different. But, the north part is kind of better from the other part of Iraq. That's what I consider, like they respect women more, but still, like women in those countries facing a lot of issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=353.67,380.4"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yes, so you're - so, let me see if this is correct again, like the northern part of Iraq or Kurdista - Kurdistan, it was maybe a better place for women to live.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=382.02,393.6"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. Women has more freedom, like, allowed to work outside home. And somehow, in some families, you're allowed to choose your husband, choose the person you married to. I don't know. The family - I came - like my family was like that, like it was - they wasn't very restricted about like, who I choose, or they allow me to go to college. And yeah, a lot of others, at that time, it was like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=394.14,434.13"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So you said you immigrated with your brother? Um, well, who did you leave behind? 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Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=483.72,484.02"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That must have been hard. So, why did you choose the United States? Or how did that happen that you came here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=484.89,494.13"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I didn't choose. They brought us here. They brought all those 7,000 people to the United States. The other, like the, the some of those organizations came in from, like France, Germany, but they chose to bring all of these people here. Nobody went to other countries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=494.97,519.059"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And do you know why that it happened that way? Why you didn't go to some other country?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=519.87,524.159"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I don't know. Probably because United States always like bringing immigrant people here. Maybe that was the only reason? I'm not sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=524.19,534.93"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And so how did you prepare for your trip?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=536.19,538.29"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: [laughs] It was like between, like, day and night, they said, \"Okay, you guys now are leaving. So, I was prepared because before that I was - they said, they might take us to the country. And I wasn't like completely prepared. I was just on the board waiting to see if they bring us here. Then next day, they say \"Okay, yeah, you guys gonna go\". We don't have, like I told you, no passport or anything. Then, they brought us from Zahko, it's a word of Kurdistan, to Turkey. And we went to Turkey and we stayed one night. It was like a camp too. And, we came in by American, like military airport, and we all came in through them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=538.29,609.72"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Were able to bring many of your things or what did you bring with you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=613.38,617.13"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I didn't bring much because I did not know what's gonna happen, or do I go or not? I wasn't sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=618.51,628.44"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, that was - that sounds -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=630.42,632.16"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I wasn't like, I wasn't agreed to go because I almost left my brother behind. He went to get my family and he couldn't find them. He went like four or five hour away from that city to get them. But he couldn't - we were thinking at that time, there was an unused cellphone and those - we couldn't get in touch with them, and we left them behind. Then by the time, almost, we almost got ready to get out of that city, and my brother came back and said, I couldn't find my mom and my rest of family. Then we relax and they left behind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=632.22,675.3"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah, oh my gosh, that is so hard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=675.93,678.3"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: It was so hard because I was with a big family then I left them all behind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=678.51,683.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So when you finally made it to the United States, what was your first impression of the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=688.29,696.33"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: [laughs] Like I told you, it's completely different, a different culture. First, when we got here after 10 days, they told me, I have to work. And I never had a job. Unless I work - and that, with that organization, like I told you. And doing that, I was a college student and when you're in college, you don't work. Your family supports you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=696.33,730.74"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=731.01,731.52"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And the - we don't, we used to not pay for college. They even give us a little bit of money for our expense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=732.0,742.62"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That's excellent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=742.98,743.79"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: At that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=743.91,745.05"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=745.23,745.65"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And when they told me you need to work and at first I work in this company they making screw. It was a little bit hard. I work eight to five and I'm not used to this much working hours. And this is one side and the other part, I missed my family a lot. It was hard. I can tell you. I cried every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=746.28,774.78"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, yeah. It makes me sad to hear about that experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=775.98,781.74"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I was like, when you take, when you take, I feel emotion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=782.07,785.07"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yes. [coughing] Yeah, I can't imagine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=785.73,790.29"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I was like, when you take two years old, away from her mom. It was so hard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=790.29,797.34"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah, being away from your family is the worst. I agree. I - what a hard thing. Well, so how it has your initial impression, you know, the way you saw the United States at the beginning, how has that changed over time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=798.93,818.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Slowly, I adapted to the place and to the lifestyle here. And, it became like, right now if I go anywhere else, I miss here. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=820.26,836.25"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, do you - Harrisonburg is home? Is that what you're - ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=836.25,839.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes. I have been here for over 20 years so it's home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=839.46,844.38"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Definitely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=845.4,846.03"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. And when I - I miss there sometime. But when I go there, I want to come back here. So, it became home now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=846.09,854.58"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah - that's like the test, I guess when you -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=854.85,858.66"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=858.66,859.08"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That you, so you're saying that, that Harrisonburg's your - has been your home for 20 years and it's like in your heart now, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=859.17,867.66"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=867.69,868.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: In that way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=868.11,868.59"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And my home is here so -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=869.52,871.32"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah. Well, what changes have you noticed in Harrisonburg in the 20 years that you've been here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=871.35,876.6"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Oh, I see a lot of changes in - like people are changing too. They used to not - that much friendly with us, but they're friendly now. Like a majority of people. I see a lot of - it got bigger, much bigger. When you came in, like many other road added some, like, complex they added, like homes. It's different and the high school change RMH went to different place. It was in downtown almost.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=878.64,917.67"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=918.18,918.66"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  Yeah, it's a lot of changes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=918.69,920.73"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: A lot of changes with a lot more people, a bigger population.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=922.2,928.23"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah, and a lot of other like, when we came in, it was like few family here, that I know. I see a lot of Kurdish and Arabic family after like 10 years, 15 years I have been here. They added like, refugee office brought more family here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=928.23,950.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: What office brought more families?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=952.95,955.47"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Refugee Office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=956.01,957.15"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, the Refugee Resettlement?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=957.39,959.19"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=959.37,959.82"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And so, so what you're saying is that, the the population of the Kurdish people and the Arabic people has grown in the last 20 years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=960.93,970.29"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes, they are. [?] Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=970.29,971.79"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, thinking about Harrisonburg and thinking about your country, what are some of the differences and similarities? How - how is your culture and the American culture the same and how are the two cultures the different?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=973.11,989.64"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: It is different? I don't know how to tell you. But there's a lot of different. Like in my country, I see like, neighbor are very attached, they know each other. Over here, like, I don't know my neighbor. I don't know, what's their name and what else? Work wise, like, not everybody working in my country. Here, everybody's working to survive. But, the way I'm like I'm telling you back then when I was there, but right now everything changed there too. Life has kind of got more difficult. And, right now I see people, like men and woman, they need to be working, then they survive. But what I'm telling you, I tell you, like 10 - 20 years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=994.59,1055.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1055.91,1056.48"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. Women has more freedom here compared to there. And I don't -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1056.54,1066.26"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: What about the educational - what about the schools and the educational system?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1067.37,1071.45"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: School is different, much different. Over here, high School is require. High school degrees required for everybody. Over there's not like that. Back then, like, it's the, the curriculum is a lot different. I see a lot harder when I see my daughter and other kids what they doing at school now. Over here it go by semester, but in my country is not by semester like you have a subject from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. For like nine months you study same thing. And if you did not pass, you have to repeat a whole year, not just that subject, for the whole thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1071.78,1123.02"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1123.5,1124.07"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: It's much harder. Over here, I like the system. It's different. It goes by semester and if you don't pass one subject, you will repeat that, not the whole year because of that subject. So, I like the system, the education system here, over there is not like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1124.13,1144.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And then you mentioned earlier, it's -  for you, college was free, and then they even gave you spending money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1145.07,1152.09"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1152.15,1152.9"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So is it - so, how would you compare the university opportunities in the United States with the way the university opportunities are in Iraq now? Is it - has that changed or - ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1153.29,1169.25"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Oh, over there, you have more opportunity because everything is free and even the dorm you go, they give you like a room for free. They give you a little bit - they used to like I'm talking about like 20 years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1170.54,1186.41"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1186.5,1186.98"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: They give you a little bit of money for your expense and the tuition free books, books free, everything. Like people has more opportunity to go there, but sometime, like, people - they don't finish college over there, they say, because there is no a lot of opportunity to be hire as their degree, like to be hired to work in with their degree, then some people say, \"Why I'm gonna go to college if at the end, I'm not gonna get hired? I'm not gonna get like, paid good. I have to do other jobs, not working in my field.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1187.01,1230.24"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right. So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1230.63,1231.86"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: That's why maybe people not going to college. Or sometimes some family issue. For example, if the boy or girl, they need to work before they go and finish college, to support their family. So, and other stuff. The war or other stuff make them not having college degree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1231.98,1256.58"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, I'm curious about the similarities and differences of if you owned your own business. How are those things the same? You know, or similar and different between the United States and, and Kurdistan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1258.14,1273.89"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah, I never had a business there. But, I see it a little bit easier because they don't, you don't pay that much taxes for your business. And it look easier to have business over there even I've never had one. But I see the difference over here, like, even after our business burned down, and we had a tax for a certain amount, and I went to the city and told them, the business not exist anymore and they say \"No, you have to pay the tax.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1273.92,1311.96"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: You still had to pay the tax?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1312.5,1313.94"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah, yeah. [laughs] So, the taxes is hard on business. And -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1313.97,1321.32"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, so just thinking about that. So, what was your degree? Because when, you were a student -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1323.99,1330.89"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1330.89,1331.1"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: In Kurdistan, was your degree in business? Is that what you saif?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1331.49,1334.4"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: It was in business.  But my major was statistic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1334.4,1338.45"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, okay. So, you're really good at math.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1339.08,1342.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1342.47,1342.65"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That's great. Well, when you when you came here, what were the hopes for yourself? When you first came, you know, what kind of dreams did you have? Career wise, or business wise when you first came?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1343.7,1357.77"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Oh, when I first came in, I work at a company and I wish to, like not staying in working in those companies like, I don't know, because I was wishing to get a - first to learn the language well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1358.82,1385.34"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster:  Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1385.82,1386.24"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And I was trying to get a master's degree in education, but I didn't do that. Because my hope to be a teacher, even in my country, I - because I was good at math. And even when I was a student, I see a lot of students struggling with math. And I always like to help people understand what they struggling with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1386.3,1417.47"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1417.77,1418.25"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And that's why I wish to become a teacher, to help other kids to understand the subject.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1418.34,1427.64"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah, and that's, that's a great goal, a great goal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1429.35,1433.25"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1434.54,1435.26"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, what made you decide you wanted - what inspired you to start your hair salon?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1436.25,1443.69"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Okay, it wasn't planned for at all. It wasn't. But my brother, he knew I had few classes and I know how to, like have hair or take care of hair. And, one of his friend was trying to sell the salon and he said, \"Let's do it together\", and I said, \"Okay\". And, that's where it start because we wasn't plan for it at all. And, we started in September 2019.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1445.4,1483.05"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1483.38,1483.83"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah, it wasn't long. It was a year and one month when we had the salon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1484.37,1491.51"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, and also, if it was September of 2019. You didn't have that many months until all of a sudden, we're in the middle of the COVID pandemic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1492.29,1501.92"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1502.25,1502.82"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, how did that impact your daily life and also your work in your salon?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1503.09,1509.24"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: First, it was so slow. I was so stressed when we had the business in the beginning. I couldn't even sleep. I keep thinking about it. You know when you - that was my first time having a business and then everybody was telling me it's okay. It will get better since you guys are new and it will get better. Suddenly, at beginning of the new year we were planning like get better and the season, it changed the business too. Like the summer almost come. It was March and we are like happy. It will get better, people come more. But the virus came in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1511.37,1560.09"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1560.54,1561.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. And we closed the shop for two months. Then, hoping get better this time, it was like June, we open up and kind of a little bit slowly got better a little bit, then that's what happened after that. Thanks. 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I even - it was my second home like anything I want, I put it in there. Like, like, for example yesterday, I was looking for something, I said \"Oh my God, I would - I'll take it.\" I took it to the salon, and I left it there. Like it affect me a lot. It's so - yeah, because it was like my second home. My niece was telling me \"Oh, you took all of your good plants there and it's gone.\" [laughs] Yeah, it was my second home. So -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1598.28,1640.01"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah so, you made your business your home. I think you told me, when we were chatting when I dropped her off the consent form, that it was - had become a place, or maybe I read it on your website, where a lot of your - of the community of the Kurdish community and the Arabic community gathered to -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1640.49,1661.43"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1661.46,1661.76"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: You know, get their haircut and socialize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1661.76,1664.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Uh huh. And we had a special room for those people that would hjab. They put their scarf, scarf on their head and they don't expose their hair infront of other men's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1664.4,1679.94"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1680.0,1680.54"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And we have that room and people were happy about that. And I have this Arabic woman work with me. Like when people come, we understand each other and I also speak Arabic too. So, we kind of know what they want. Like people were happy and they keep asking me, \"Are you going open another salon?\" and I don't - I said \"I'm not sure. I don't know\". Financially, I can't because we did not hear anything from nobody, what's gonna happen. Are they can help us financially or - ? There was a little help from the city, but it wasn't enough.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1680.66,1724.43"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: What did you have insurance that covered your business?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1726.23,1730.4"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1730.55,1731.3"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Was that helpful?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1732.65,1733.67"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: No, that - I mean, they don't answer me. I talked to them once and they - . I call them they keep like - I leave a message for them and they never replied or anything like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1734.03,1746.99"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1747.47,1748.01"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And I was trying to go through legal service but they say, \"We're not working with the situation you're telling us.\" I called. You right now, all the offices is has to be on the phone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1748.1,1765.44"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, that's right. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1765.44,1765.77"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: You can't be in person and talk to them or -. One day I talked to this lady, she said \"Okay, yeah. We can help this case. Call me Monday.\" When I called Monday, another person pick up the phone and she said \"No, we cannot help this case.\" So, probably I have to have a private attorney or lawyer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1765.77,1787.76"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, that's very frustrating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1788.27,1789.71"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1789.77,1790.34"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: How has your staff been affected since the business was forced to close?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1792.59,1798.23"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: On the day of the explosion happened, this barber was there. He was in at the shop.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1799.31,1807.5"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1807.83,1808.31"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. And he got injured some. He got some burn on his skin. And his customer, he got it some like injury too. But, a month or two after that, he went and got a - he used to rent a chair from us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1808.49,1829.4"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster:  Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1829.82,1830.12"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: But, he went to a different barber and he got a - but he rent that chair from someone else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1830.12,1837.65"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, he moved to a different salon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1838.58,1841.04"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes. They kind of find a job somewhere else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1841.25,1844.37"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. And then you, you - my next question was, do you plan on reopening? And I think you said earlier, that you're not sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1845.24,1854.99"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I can't financially. And, it's, it's a little bit hard. I - I'm not sure 100% if I'm gonna do that again. But, right now I'm working in a different salon too. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1857.33,1872.81"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, you are?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1873.38,1874.28"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1874.31,1875.03"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah. So, where are you working now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1875.18,1877.76"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Mila's studio.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1878.66,1880.04"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Oh, Mila's. Okay. I know what that is. All right. That's great. Well, you also mentioned when we scheduled this interview, that you're also an interpreter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1880.4,1891.08"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1892.52,1892.88"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And I understand that you speak multiple languages. What are they and when did you learn them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1892.88,1900.62"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I speak Turkish and Arabic. Kurdish is my mom's language.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1901.52,1906.56"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster:  Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1906.71,1907.19"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And I learned Arabic at school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1907.37,1909.32"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And elementary school? Or did you start when you were very young learning Arabic or was it - ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1911.06,1915.53"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: That's a - [laughs]. That's a long story, too","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1915.53,1918.5"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster:  Yeah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1918.74,1919.34"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: My, my dad was against Saddam's system. Okay? And, he escaped from military. Then, he moved - Saddam Hussein moved those people from their city, that he moved them to a bad area, the area they not used to it like in the - in South, the area where it's very hot, no water, no electricity. It was - we lived a life, it was so bad. It was in a little village and we all are like little. I don't even know like I wasn't in school yet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1921.77,1970.22"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1971.18,1971.63"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: And, my dad was trying to move us to, at least, to the city of that area, not in that village. Then, when we went to the city, the population that they speak Arabic, no Kurdish people unless like these few family moved down there. And, when I went to city, I mean, when I went to school, I - the curriculum was in Arabic. So, I learned Arabic there. Like we stayed few years. Then when we - we went back, they agreed to go back. They let us to go back to where I used to live, Sulaymaniyah. [?] My, my mom said, changing these - like curriculum in from Arabic to Kurdish, it will confuse you guys. So, he let us - she let us to stay in Arabic school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=1971.96,2033.04"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2033.49,2034.09"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  Like the school where all the subject is Arabic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2034.15,2037.39"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2037.6,2038.05"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: So, that's how I learned Arabic language. It was a long story. [laughs] Sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2038.23,2042.97"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah. No, no, it was an interesting story. So, it's like your mother tongue is Kurdish.  Is that what you would speak at home with your family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2043.0,2052.12"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2053.23,2053.5"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: And then, where you lived, they had a school that was only taught in Arabic, and so then you went to school - it's kind of similar to here in the United States, where people move here with their mother tongue and then schools only in English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2053.5,2071.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Correct. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2071.199,2072.19"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah. So, was that an advantage or how was that? Was it an advantage to, to be able to speak Arabic? Did you have more opportunity?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2072.219,2080.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: [unclear]. No, I was a child and I learned the language so fast.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2084.1,2088.63"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster:  Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2088.84,2089.26"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Before I go to school, my mom used to tell us, \"They call this, this. They call this of that\". Like she's telling us, what is these words in Arabic. Then after I learned Arabic, and grammatically, I was even better than my mom, I used to make fun of her. I said, \"No, that's wrong.\" [laughs] You don't know what they call this because there is a lot of -Arabic is a hard language like -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2089.53,2119.8"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah, I can kind of - yeah. Wow. When you were in college, were your courses in Arabic or in Kurdish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2119.8,2126.07"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Arabic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2126.13,2126.64"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. So, that was -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2127.0,2128.56"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I keep doing Arabic than, since then since I went to school. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2128.8,2133.75"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, to be an interpreter, what's the certification process like? Do you have to be certified to - ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2134.92,2141.1"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I have certification.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2141.58,2143.08"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: How does that work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2143.47,2144.67"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: There was a course at JMU and I went there, it was like 40 hours. Then, they gave a certificate.They test you before you enroll, then you do some training, then there's another test afterward. And you pay a little - at that time, I paid a little bit of money. But, they increased the training costs after. They still have that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2146.32,2177.73"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Uh huh. And where do you work as an interpreter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2178.18,2181.03"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: This is through JMU's Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center. Blue Ridge AHEC.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2184.09,2191.05"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Okay, and it's through that center that you get your interpreting jobs?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2191.65,2196.09"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi:  Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2196.45,2196.93"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: So, what are your job or career goals for the future? You seem like you have so many skills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2198.79,2205.12"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2205.54,2206.2"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2206.23,2206.56"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I was, I was planning to do teacher certificates because I have bachelor's degree in a different field. I sent my transcript to, to the state. And they sent me back few classes I have to take, but I haven't, since all of these happened, viruses, the business, and I don't know, I was so busy at that time. And, they gave me, the state gave me three years. Like I have - I can do it through, like any colleges within three years. So, maybe I'm doing that. I don't know. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2207.46,2256.78"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well thats, that sounds like a great opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2256.78,2259.48"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. So, I get teaching certificate in math, then I can teach in high school, middle school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2259.54,2266.86"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, we need good math teachers. That's for sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2268.03,2270.34"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: [laughs] That's what everybody say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2270.67,2273.52"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: This is a bigger kind of, you know, question, but what are you what are your just dreams for the future? Not just for your job, but just for yourself, for your own life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2274.75,2284.8"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Oh, I have one daughter. My dream is for her to finish her education and get a good degree. And, I want to see my grandchildren. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2284.8,2303.58"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Yeah. Yeah, I understand.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2304.48,2306.85"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I want peace for the whole world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2308.08,2310.72"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That is a beautiful dream.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2311.23,2313.24"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. And, I want this virus go away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2313.39,2316.63"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: I agree. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2316.93,2318.46"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I want to go back to normal. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2318.46,2321.73"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That's an excellent dream.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2321.73,2323.56"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2323.86,2324.55"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, this was a fascinating interview and I really appreciate your time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2325.39,2330.91"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2331.18,2331.9"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Is there anything else that you would like to share with us or that you think would be helpful?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2331.96,2338.11"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: I don't think of anything. I want to just thank you guys for your time too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2338.11,2343.42"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well, thank you for being so patient with the technology. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2344.14,2347.68"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yes. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2347.83,2348.28"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That was a challenge and we worked through it. That was great. That was great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2348.58,2352.0"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: When I first came in, I had computer office skills. I was still getting computer but I don't know what happened, when you don't use it, you lose it. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2352.0,2361.18"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: That I think is just- that's the truth. Isn't it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2361.39,2364.21"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Yeah. [laughs] I went to Massanutten Technical Center and I studied for like a whole year and I got computer office skill. But, the only issue [?] was a - but I don't I don't get a computer anymore. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2364.21,2377.53"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Ah, well you love to learn! I think you know, you're a lifelong learner, for sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2377.53,2381.82"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: [laughs] Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2382.57,2382.87"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Well again, thanks so much for your time and, we will be sharing the, the recording and the transcript with you, here in the future. I'll be in touch with you about that. Okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2382.9,2394.36"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2394.54,2395.08"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Thank you. Have a good evening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2395.35,2397.24"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: You too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2397.27,2397.66"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anthony Salazar: Have a good day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2398.14,2398.41"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Thanks. Bye, Bye. You too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2398.41,2399.7"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candy Foster: Bye.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2399.79,2400.39"},{"id":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465/transcript/77636/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salwa Mahdi: Bye.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jmu.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3230/collection_resources/145472/file/268465#t=2400.54,2400.81"}]}]}]}