you
you
my accent is important to me because it
connects me to my roots and to my many
identities one of my top identities is
that I love love language I get up in
the morning because I love language and
I’m and also I was born in Jerusalem to
a Muslim Arab Palestinian family we are
some IDEs a Semite is a person who
speaks a somatic language Arabic is a
somatic language and the Arabs are the
largest group of Semites on the planet
when I was 3 a war happened and I got
separated from my family
we got reunited in the morning but I
lost my sense of safety in the wild we
also lost our country so we became
refugees in our homeland one good thing
happened during that war is that at a
war shelter on a chalkboard
I met Aleph the first letter of the
Arabic alphabet and I began my journey
of loving words for 19 years after that
war I lived with no citizenship in the
country of my birth with no human rights
constant fear I asked myself how come
people don’t create 2-story countries
like we create two-story houses at age
22 I came to America an emigrant I
noticed that most people don’t know very
much about Palestine the Palestinians
and Arabs even though everyone uses the
Arabic numerals the connection is not
made that the Arabs have contributed
greatly to human civilization
I felt homesick
health insurance doesn’t cover
homesickness
so I bought a globe and the morning I
pointed to where Palestine is and said
sabaha here good morning it occurred to
me that the globe spins the earth goes
around and it has an atmosphere that’s
filled with air given this fact the
aroma of roasted coffee and Ramallah
that rumors of my mom cooking in her
kitchen the sounds of the calls for
prayer my favorite singers Abdel Halim
I’m consumed by ruse all their voices go
up to the air and the fact that the
earth goes around I get to touch the air
of Palestine once every 24 hours
that changed everything for me and I
leaned on my big love language no not
Arabic English I developed beautiful
relationships with five words the first
word is perspective it started in the
90s when NASA launched the Hubble
telescope Hubble is supposed to take
different pictures from different
perspectives so that we can understand
space and ourselves I discovered that my
identities do the same I can understand
anything from Palestinian identity Arab
identity Muslim identity woman identity
American identity Wow have a living
I wanted more identities not less that
took me to the word ignore I noticed
that every time I say Palestine many
people put up as a verb ignored
I thought ignore ignore ignore
makes a person ignorant ignore ignore
ignore makes a culture of ignorance a
culture of ignorance leads us backwards
or gives us stock development and
science moving forward say observation
engaging I wanted to engage this word so
I wrote two books one about my childhood
and the war and one about coming of age
in Palestine I wanted to tell the world
stop ignoring us we are part of the
house of humanity that took me to the
third word which is integrity
I understood integrity in a different
way I thought it it comes from calculus
the Arab contributed a lot to calculus
the area integration you take different
things different perspectives you do not
ignore any then you have integrity
everybody wants to have high integrity
with a lot of ignoring its really low
integrity that moved me to the next word
number four respect
all people want to be respected all the
time when I first encountered this word
I thought mmm spec black perspective
it’s about seeing why is the re respect
it turns out that people change every
second and one shot from the Hubble one
SPECT is not enough so we don’t trust a
person who gives us feedback if we think
that person does not respect us doesn’t
see us as a multi-dimensional being
constantly changing in time and space we
say that person doesn’t respect us they
know it’s just from one angle just line
and mouth that’s pretty much nothing
it’s like a picture on the wall when
people asked me if Islam oppresses women
I didn’t want to respond with that
without first respecting myself as a
woman and then respecting actually Islam
to respect myself as a woman I realized
that for a long time women were
illiterate they didn’t read or write the
Quran the text of Islam is a book you
must be literate in order to interact
with it but now I have two languages
many identities educated and my number
one love is language and this is a book
sacred book a book so I took myself to
this text and I opened it the first
thing anyway slim says when they opened
the Quran is bismillahi r-rahmanir-rahim
in the name of God the most
compassionate the most merciful
compassionate merciful the top qualities
of God in Islam there are 99 qualities
actually many more but the ones
everybody
mentions 99 compassionate merciful
merciful from the Specht of English they
love different words when I looked at it
from Arabic I am wearing this
bismillahirrahmanirrahim a rahmani
raheem somatic words all somatic words
have roots the root is Rehema it turns
out from my suspecting as a woman as the
person I am Rehema is the same root
of the word womb also the top two
qualities of God in Islam share the same
root with the word for woom woom rahem
means close relation place of compassion
also many other words but womb and I
realized it’s impossible for this script
to be coming to oppress women if this is
the case I respected all of Islam looked
at history looked at life most likely
them inspected least acts from what they
know and they offered it to the society
respecting of women the respecting given
what we know about ourselves is
different to have integrity we must come
together to provide complete respect for
our understanding of this faith of
everything I decided to respect
everything all the time this took me to
another word
number five solution we’re constantly
looking for solutions I saw a solution
from the chemistry perspective well a
solution you take sugar and tea that’s a
solution two fluids together that’s a
solution I thought wow human beings are
mostly made of water when we come
together we create solutions and we
indeed created amazing solutions for
humanity when we came together we’re
mostly made of water and we are social
human beings social means we like to be
together just like water every drop of
the solution every drop of water
respecting the other one I realized for
integrity for no ignoring for respecting
all the time for having solutions that
work for all of humanity
we need to come together the people who
build walls they ignore chemistry
[Applause]
and the people who segregate they’re
ignorant of chemistry and of humanity it
never worked out to segregate people
because they’re social and they want to
get together and because they are water
and they want to create solutions
together so water also brings down walls
over time if you notice now I came up
with a word for myself that I invented
for the English language for myself but
I’m going to offer that to you it’s not
just solution it’s a solution sou L u
tion this solution would include
everything that is humanity because we
cannot ignore anything and still
understand an Integris picture solution
would include the spiritual realm from
faith in tongues faith to intense
intense atheism it’s all the same people
struggling with that realm the same
continuum physical emotional spiritual
financial political everything is part
of humanity for us to understand
ourselves over time and space and not
ignore each other and harm each other we
need to move toward a solution
my name is if T Sam Beckett I’m a US
citizen who has an accent thank you for
your attention
you
[Music]
you
you
my accent is important to me because it
connects me to my roots and to my many
identities one of my top identities is
that I love love language I get up in
the morning because I love language and
I’m and also I was born in Jerusalem to
a Muslim Arab Palestinian family we are
some IDEs a Semite is a person who
speaks a somatic language Arabic is a
somatic language and the Arabs are the
largest group of Semites on the planet
when I was 3 a war happened and I got
separated from my family
we got reunited in the morning but I
lost my sense of safety in the wild we
also lost our country so we became
refugees in our homeland one good thing
happened during that war is that at a
war shelter on a chalkboard
I met Aleph the first letter of the
Arabic alphabet and I began my journey
of loving words for 19 years after that
war I lived with no citizenship in the
country of my birth with no human rights
constant fear I asked myself how come
people don’t create 2-story countries
like we create two-story houses at age
22 I came to America an emigrant I
noticed that most people don’t know very
much about Palestine the Palestinians
and Arabs even though everyone uses the
Arabic numerals the connection is not
made that the Arabs have contributed
greatly to human civilization
I felt homesick
health insurance doesn’t cover
homesickness
so I bought a globe and the morning I
pointed to where Palestine is and said
sabaha here good morning it occurred to
me that the globe spins the earth goes
around and it has an atmosphere that’s
filled with air given this fact the
aroma of roasted coffee and Ramallah
that rumors of my mom cooking in her
kitchen the sounds of the calls for
prayer my favorite singers Abdel Halim
I’m consumed by ruse all their voices go
up to the air and the fact that the
earth goes around I get to touch the air
of Palestine once every 24 hours
that changed everything for me and I
leaned on my big love language no not
Arabic English I developed beautiful
relationships with five words the first
word is perspective it started in the
90s when NASA launched the Hubble
telescope Hubble is supposed to take
different pictures from different
perspectives so that we can understand
space and ourselves I discovered that my
identities do the same I can understand
anything from Palestinian identity Arab
identity Muslim identity woman identity
American identity Wow have a living
I wanted more identities not less that
took me to the word ignore I noticed
that every time I say Palestine many
people put up as a verb ignored
I thought ignore ignore ignore
makes a person ignorant ignore ignore
ignore makes a culture of ignorance a
culture of ignorance leads us backwards
or gives us stock development and
science moving forward say observation
engaging I wanted to engage this word so
I wrote two books one about my childhood
and the war and one about coming of age
in Palestine I wanted to tell the world
stop ignoring us we are part of the
house of humanity that took me to the
third word which is integrity
I understood integrity in a different
way I thought it it comes from calculus
the Arab contributed a lot to calculus
the area integration you take different
things different perspectives you do not
ignore any then you have integrity
everybody wants to have high integrity
with a lot of ignoring its really low
integrity that moved me to the next word
number four respect
all people want to be respected all the
time when I first encountered this word
I thought mmm spec black perspective
it’s about seeing why is the re respect
it turns out that people change every
second and one shot from the Hubble one
SPECT is not enough so we don’t trust a
person who gives us feedback if we think
that person does not respect us doesn’t
see us as a multi-dimensional being
constantly changing in time and space we
say that person doesn’t respect us they
know it’s just from one angle just line
and mouth that’s pretty much nothing
it’s like a picture on the wall when
people asked me if Islam oppresses women
I didn’t want to respond with that
without first respecting myself as a
woman and then respecting actually Islam
to respect myself as a woman I realized
that for a long time women were
illiterate they didn’t read or write the
Quran the text of Islam is a book you
must be literate in order to interact
with it but now I have two languages
many identities educated and my number
one love is language and this is a book
sacred book a book so I took myself to
this text and I opened it the first
thing anyway slim says when they opened
the Quran is bismillahi r-rahmanir-rahim
in the name of God the most
compassionate the most merciful
compassionate merciful the top qualities
of God in Islam there are 99 qualities
actually many more but the ones
everybody
mentions 99 compassionate merciful
merciful from the Specht of English they
love different words when I looked at it
from Arabic I am wearing this
bismillahirrahmanirrahim a rahmani
raheem somatic words all somatic words
have roots the root is Rehema it turns
out from my suspecting as a woman as the
person I am Rehema is the same root
of the word womb also the top two
qualities of God in Islam share the same
root with the word for woom woom rahem
means close relation place of compassion
also many other words but womb and I
realized it’s impossible for this script
to be coming to oppress women if this is
the case I respected all of Islam looked
at history looked at life most likely
them inspected least acts from what they
know and they offered it to the society
respecting of women the respecting given
what we know about ourselves is
different to have integrity we must come
together to provide complete respect for
our understanding of this faith of
everything I decided to respect
everything all the time this took me to
another word
number five solution we’re constantly
looking for solutions I saw a solution
from the chemistry perspective well a
solution you take sugar and tea that’s a
solution two fluids together that’s a
solution I thought wow human beings are
mostly made of water when we come
together we create solutions and we
indeed created amazing solutions for
humanity when we came together we’re
mostly made of water and we are social
human beings social means we like to be
together just like water every drop of
the solution every drop of water
respecting the other one I realized for
integrity for no ignoring for respecting
all the time for having solutions that
work for all of humanity
we need to come together the people who
build walls they ignore chemistry
[Applause]
and the people who segregate they’re
ignorant of chemistry and of humanity it
never worked out to segregate people
because they’re social and they want to
get together and because they are water
and they want to create solutions
together so water also brings down walls
over time if you notice now I came up
with a word for myself that I invented
for the English language for myself but
I’m going to offer that to you it’s not
just solution it’s a solution sou L u
tion this solution would include
everything that is humanity because we
cannot ignore anything and still
understand an Integris picture solution
would include the spiritual realm from
faith in tongues faith to intense
intense atheism it’s all the same people
struggling with that realm the same
continuum physical emotional spiritual
financial political everything is part
of humanity for us to understand
ourselves over time and space and not
ignore each other and harm each other we
need to move toward a solution
my name is if T Sam Beckett I’m a US
citizen who has an accent thank you for
your attention
you
[Music]
you
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