way to preserving his beloved craft. can you tell me? well, of course i'll do everything i can to prevent this tradition from dying out, but i can't do it on my own. the whole society must cherish this heritage. consider a precious and love it. a craft whose mastery is hardened and that could easily be lost. robin bride al jazeera john to south korea. ah, half past the hour on al jazeera, these are the headlines him. i see has been declared, the winner of iran's presidential election, widely anticipated result. after all, the strong content is withdrawn from running. the hotline has been congratulated, spun demand, he will replace us on ro, honey. here is what tracy had to say. after that meeting was supposed to shut down right now, i'd like to offer my gratitude to the very dear honorable and vigilant people. i thank the almighty god dear people's trust. in the serving seminary student,

i hope i can respond well to the people's confidence votes unkindness. during my turn, that was an issue that will confront i see when he takes over as president of course, a nuclear deal. earlier, the foreign minister jump at the reset talks in vienna are going well, and iran could even rejoined the dealers early as this summer day is a good possibility that we will reach an agreement before the end of our tenure as as how soon. so we are supposed to leave office by mid august and i think there is a good possibility that we can reach an agreement they before made us talk. so going on right now as we speak, i just read the latest ed text editor that is being discussed in, in vienna. the text is getting cleaner and clean. the brackets are being removed.

and other news in a bold outbreak which started in guinea in february has been declared over by a health ministry and the world health organization. 12 of the 16 people who were infected died, but 11000 people were vaccinated to help contain the virus. speaking of viruses, moscow registering a new record for cove at 19 infections for the 2nd day running. while the 19000 cases are recorded in the last 24 hours, moscow's man says the search is being driven by the contagious delta. very 1st scene in india and protested in brazil at demanding the impeachment of president john bolton are over. his handling of the pandemic. hundreds are out on the streets of rio right now. demanding more. corona barnes vaccines as well. the president has repeatedly played down the threat of the buyers and has now killed nearly half a 1000000 people in brazil. that's my lot for to day moline will take you through the next 3 hours on al jazeera. next, it's the stream i was going to have on washing and asia and africa. there'd be days

where i'd be shooting and editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity is ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because up, the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together, that are so important. we make those connections the i, me, ok, welcome to the screen. today we are going to be joined by the right tab mas. let me get, stay. we will be talking about how writing her journey through the literary well add her kind novel and king mother. nice to see you. welcome back to the the laser surgery. thank you so much. i wonder how great must they feel to have

someone to hold your book up as of right. so what's that like inside? i still can't get used to it. i can't help it. i started smiling and retired every time i see it's been an incredible journey with this book. it has been years of work and it's come to this point, but i never, never thought possible. i had no idea of me. you would be there holding my book on television, who would have thought. so this is fantastic. was that when i describe your discussion as a writer and i left it at that, i'm looking at you in to grand page right here. and he says, he writes many words, shoot mainly for film. how would you like to describe yourself? because people love to put labels on writers. i love the showing was on the labels on them. if you were writing your own description, what would you tell our audience about yeah,

good research with that. by the way. i, i'm a writer. i'm a novelist, i'm an essayist. i am someone with a very deep appreciation for the art and history of photography. i love to make my own photographs and like my short bio and instagram says, i use of old film camera. i use black and white film. but my bio, i don't know if it would have photographer on there. and this is a discussion i've had with, with a few people because i understand the level of work that goes into calling yourself a photographer. it's not just simply pretty pictures. there's a philosophy. there are concepts behind this work the same way that i feel comfortable calling myself a writer because i understand the philosophies that guide my work with photography and learning. but i have a very deep respect and maybe too much respect for, for,

for other photographers. i know the work that they do. one day i would like to get there, but right now i am a deep appreciator and the practice or so much right now we live on youtube, which means that you cheap. i can ask you questions. i am curious as to when you described yourself, you did decide or nationality. i wonder why not like i knew she is going to be really mad with you right now. you talk to mother about her writing her work. the shadow came about frequent writing and the stories that they have to tell really you have her, you have a for the next 20 minutes or so. let me get started with the shadow king. so anyone who have been ready, who doesn't know the story, just briefly tell us what it's about. well,

the novel is set in 1935 during mussolini invasion of b t o p. as in an attempt to colonize it, it tells the story of this war from both sides of the battlefield. the italians as well as the p, o. p and but my main characters are women, women who fought in the war. and i center my attention on an orphan named he route. and the person that she works with works for us there who is a noble woman. and i look out war through the lens of someone who is very poor, who's only role in society is supposed to be as a maid or a servant. but who feels like she was born to be something else beyond what society has made of her. and i also talk about this through us. there has been noble woman who has had supposedly all the privileges of

a high social standing in ethiopia. and yet she also has felt constricted by her role as a woman in society. mina ramen has read the shadow king. this is what she told us about the earlier listen. i listened to the already evasion of the shattered king and i thought he was an absorbing and fascinating read. especially when i learned that it was based around true events that you was able to hold up an invasion by italian for led by you seeing on the be one of the strongest armies in the world at the time. i also heard from where that is saying that you spent 10 years fighting this novel and i wonder how much of that time was spent white in the novel versus researching be events, but just grace. oh, that is a really good question. me now. my research on this war started immediately in

those early parts of 1935. so i was doing both research and writing this story, but something happened about the 5 year mark when i, i thought i was finished. i had done so much research that i knew this history. i had finished the book. it was, i think it was almost a 1000 pages at that point. it was 890 or 900 something pages. but it wasn't the story that i wanted to write. i realized i was telling a historical story as opposed to a story of human beings. and part of the reason the book took so long was that after 5 years, i threw away that manuscript and started again from page one and rewrote the entire book centering women, centering heated. and the book took another, took another 5 years. i did not think that would happen. i thought i could get this

done and maybe a year. and that wasn't the case any because he has a desire to write is going to be shot that you scratch your book and you started again, let me share with people. again, the approaches that you went through to make sure that the references in your book was accurate as she possibly could make them. and i'm going to recommend you, can you read this article detective work behind a war novel? you talk about women, you talk about war and to be she read the book is putting those 2 things together. the idea that you don't shy away some silence here. yes. one of the many things that novel does brilliantly if to engage with the violence, this is central to the purpose of the novel because they are now not just about the pitiable, but also any anti imperial struggle. it engages more only

at the level of nations and peoples classes, but also not always the bottoms that men do to men that men do to them and limited to them. and so my question is does when he's talking, cracking this novel. and while you're engaged in writing it, to what extent were you aware of the need to engage with violence and on the chief with all of these contradictions to at times. and how did he go? thank you so much for that. i think, i think we understand war, at least my sense of it is that we witness more through films. we see war through photographs that come from areas of conflict. and those are either

images that have been sanitized and made to look good for the cinema, or they have been flattened and made still for photographs to be printed in newspapers or magazines. and i, i wanted to create a movement of a violence to create this, this sense of war that affects everyone, not just soldiers, but civilians as well. because this is the reality that when force meets force, it creates devastations beyond what we can ever imagine. and i am speaking this right now as an ethiopian, when we are witnessing conflict in our country, that is heartbreaking. it is absolutely devastating the humanitarian consequences of political and ideological disagreements. they are devastating generations. it's

not clean, it's not need. it does not happen between 2 men who have weapons and point at each other under fair circumstances. and i wanted to understand the true brutalities of this, that impact generations can a country truly healed from this? and what happens when the country has had one loss, one war, one conflict after another, where does the trauma goal? and how do we begin to speak of this so that we can speak together through this divide? and i wanted to think about this in my novel, 935, but writing it also is an american who witness the african and iraq wars, who witness the devastations, the way that we're still dealing with this. now guantanamo prison is not closed yet . what does it do to us, to witness this? can language bear, the weight of all these violent acts?

i wasn't sure, but i wanted to try. i wanted to see if there was a way that i could put into language that many layers of devastations that happen in conflict. and i think that the language, the in which i wrote, i needed to be something special to, to understand all the complexities of war. thank you for that question. mother, i was just scrolling for your tweets to see if there was any hint of what was happening in your ancestry home of the p o. p. in your thoughts as you will and social. and i found this and maybe i'm reading a lot into it. my country, ethiopia, i feel that you pool your, your pain into that very short sentence about what is happening for you. back home

. your 2 books, both talk about war and e. c o, p a. but during different times, is that something that is, will continue to be seen in u as in the field continue always think somewhere about conflict. you know, i, i was that really, roger, i wasn't money. i'm going to move with just to the question my life here. i'm waiting on me. let me tell you this because this is what happens. this war 1930 high has shaped my understanding of what it means to be in the fact that we beat italians. you know, this a highly equipped, aggressive, and brutal military. we beat them. so if you can imagine, as a young girl coming to america, immigrant, black, african,

it's in a place that didn't understand her where i was often ridiculed, and you know, i was bullied. and i had this history to fall back on because when americans are telling me that i don't belong or that i am nothing, i can say i'm african and i have a history much longer than, than you have. what do you have? so more has shaped my sense of, of who i am and i came to the united states because there was a revolution in my country. and here's another conflict that has shape to me. and the reason i laugh is that i think that it's, you know, pins, i'm not unique. we are, we've been shaped by the conflicts that have made this country by the conquest that have been broadened and developed it's borders. we are, we have been shaped by this. you can, i can go to a baby shower and i can go to

a wedding and you know, very soon somebody is going to say, we beat those italians and you know, and then go home and we'll have a joke. but it's not, we've been, i appreciate the laughter because on the continent of africa, ethiopians is very proud that say that the colonial is, and they didn't hang out if you have a very long and you think you're talking, there's always tight about what you did in packing back in the piece. let me, let me talk about how you put in a different way. this is miss sony. and she's wondering if the way that you, you wrangle history is helpful for how we understand it. now he's miss and i want to start by thanking you for writing these 2 brilliant books that i have read and completely loved. i think the shadow, king's unexceptional story,

an exceptional retelling of history. and i absolutely love the way you have on it is we may not war you have given them a voice you have given their audience. you have given them a platform for their stories to be hard and to be remembered. i wanted to ask, how do you think the shadow king has influenced or has shaped the way in which if you can any talent now, remember the 1935 to 1941 occupation? that's good. thank you. i. i realized, well 1st let me speak from the italian aspect of this. this is not something that was taught and readily spoken of in italy. this is a history that most italians don't know unless they have actively thought it. when the soldiers came back from ethiopia, when they came back from east africa,

a friend of mine who's in the tie and told me in her family when her relatives came back. nobody spoke of it. she said it is, was a wall, is a wall in in our family. no one speaks of it now. so the book, my book will be published in the spring of 2021 in italy. i'm very interested to see the conversations that happen, but it's not, it's not something that is readily spoken of, but there are other writers in italy, italians who are working and who have written on this history job i should go is another, is one of them. gabriella. good monday is another one. by friday, alarm is another one, and they they're working on this history. so i'm joy being a group of, ironically, women who are doing this on the east side. i think that everyone knew the history

of the victory. but i am not sure how many people really understood the daily realities of living under occupation, living under a war, the daily occurrences, interactions between the italians and east africans, but also libyans who came into east africa as us goody. i don't know how detailed that information, how that detailed information was available in ethiopia. i really had to do research to find out. i also realize the villagers kept their own histories alive by repeating the stories of what happened in their specific areas and their regions. but those stories did not often get out to the masses to become history. mother, we basically have a book club happening on youtube right now. and there is so many questions i am getting by the questions at you,

and you are going to my office back that we don't know if we got people. are you ready? i'm ready. not 9 of judah. i love this mother. do you think the appeal women are still in the shadow political power in modern ethiopian politics? i think, you know, i think 80 open women have been present in politics for a very long time. we can think of impressed i to lead leading men to war in the 1st conflict with italy and personnel. the true we have had women in positions of power . but my concern has been those people who are born in poor families. they were born to different groups of, of different ethnicities, different regions, and ignored because of who they were. how have we, how have we paid attention to them? how have we given them support, how have we empowered them?

and my concern is with those women, particularly who don't always have the means to be noticed and to be heard. and this is the speed around that we have hundreds of people in the sorry, yeah. alright. and the next one to marvin moment is waiting. think drove those women like for their country, even when they would still face with being subsequent. it subjugated to the harshness of the patriarchy in ethiopia. very fast quinn. the very fast answer is baseball war as an opportunity to change their station in life, they were fighting not just for the countries for themselves as well. so ronnie, thank you for your courage and determination to tell the story. how do you prevent fax, date events and violence from overcoming your voice? revision?

i mean that's, it's just, this is what we do. is writers, everything happens and revision, write it all down and then revise. christ fine. how do you deal with criticisms of focusing on conflicts a century ago instead of more current ones being that the role of women is so much different now? i don't know if the role of women so much different and i don't know if there has been no, i don't know about criticisms about writing from the past. the past helps us understand the present, and as far as, right, if you're not writing about this very moment, you're writing the past. so i writers do that. we need time and reflection on what has happened in the past. there is a quote from the shadow king, which is about the battlefield. i'm going to share that without wouldn't. and just give you a moment, martha, your favorite bit of the book at a time, you know, even

a page like a little snippet of a page. you've got time to find that while i read a little bit that we love you. so pissy about women being it being a battlefield on their forties as well as actually going to war. she's a soldier trapped inside the barbed wire. thanks. but she still wore the battlefield in her own body, and perhaps she had come to realize as a prisoner, that is where it has always been so beautiful. can you imagine how much better the show was get again now the mothers meeting our mother and i little sniffing. what do you keep your head a little bit? this is when here it is at the barbed wire fence. she just not changed her breathing or stiffened, her body or fiddle ale helplessly. when that same us going to yanks, opened the gate and bins into her face and shouts her name until it is a hard and painful blast in her ear. instead, she looked up at his face,

bloated with futile anger, and call me wait for whatever comes next. because this is one thing that neither the norfolk shirley nor the stupid soul datto staring at her with a gaping mouth never will ever know that she is here. rude daughter, fast ceiling gate, a feared guard of the shadow king, and she is no longer afraid of what men can do to women like her. thank you. if people don't go get the book now, they never again get the book. this is on any. she's missed an english professor and she has a final question for you. why any, go ahead. as we can we, mon, i reclaiming the police in history, throughly, tricia the sentence, women as principal in historical narrative. it's important to know that lisa be far

cry from another like actually be thing for the part where we mentioned to be generally oblivious about the changes they can crease around them. so they, well, we have seen the historical fiction written by african women female cards, who are deeply aware of the forces sheet in the world and the impact of via on action on this forces. absolutely, absolutely. we have now, molly said pell patina got by to see done. got him by we have jennifer mccomb. b, there's a line of women writing who are centering women. i think it is partly for the fact that we know that we have been there and we have always been there. and these stories have not been a shifting of any lens, but really just cleaning it off so that we can see what's actually been there. all along much of what's really obvious from the way you choose to share

your thoughts or words shall work, is that you inspire a lot of people. let me show you what martha did it a few hours ago. she said, hey, i'm going to be on the stream. how would you answer this question? this was the question that we asked about black and african work is how are they right working to reclaim the narrative? and the response goes on and on and on. i know what i got from this was that people who are already doing it, they didn't need permission. they didn't actually need inspiration. but least once a non of is really nice. a funny all is the time that you came to syracuse and you helped me be part of my answer. you were like, you could just say your parents are gone and which i was being chloe a week about for some reason. and. and i say something to me just being myself was ok, you inspire people. thank you for being on the stream today. my for me, thank you so much family of the show. you all. thank you to everyone who joined in

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