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Mariam ElHouli
There is something unsettling about realising how much of a person’s worldview is inherited before they are old enough to examine it for themselves.Not just politics or religion, but fear. Suspicion. Silence. The subtle messages about who belongs and who does not. Which lives are grieved publicly and which disappear quietly into statistics and headlines. Most of it arrives long before language for it does. Children absorb it at dinner tables, in passing comments, in stories told with bitterness still attached to them. Sometimes they inherit trauma without ever knowing where it began.And then occasionally, life places two people beside each other who were never supposed to meet as human beings.That tension sits at the centre of my conversation with Miriam El Houli on Chocolate and Coffee Break. Not as a political argument, but as a human one.Mariam spoke about surviving war in Lebanon as a teenager with a baby in her arms. She described the moment she understood that safety is not distributed equally, and that the colour of a passport can determine who is considered worthy of rescue. There is no way to hear something like that and keep conflict safely abstract. It pulls war out of newspapers and into the body of a seventeen-year-old mother trying to survive.
Categories: Podcasts
Director: Andrea Putting
Starring: Mariam ElHouli
Country: Australia
