Dorota Molin

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Apr 25, 2021, 2:26 PM

Baghdad, 1941: The Farhud (pogrom) through the eyes of an 11-year-old

Part 1: The turn of the tide It’s the end of May 1941, Baghdad. The air in the city quivers, not only with the usual summer’s heat, but also with anxious anticipation. In April that year, an anti-British Iraqi nationalist...

Dec 31, 2019, 9:53 AM

The silence of the hills (Notes from Aramaic language documentation fieldtrip in Kurdish Iraq #1)

Erbil welcomed us with rain and Aramaic. Both took me by surprise; as for the rain, Iraq in March proved to be much more stereotypically English than Middle Eastern in its weather. The latter, that is Aramaic, was also...

Mar 14, 2018, 12:02 AM

Cultural schizophrenia without and within (Shifting Sands. Stories from the Negev Bedouin community)

Waiting on the streets of the desert metropolis called Beersheba, a wave of familiar sensation washes over me. Yet again, I am about to enter a parallel universe. Leaving behind Beersheba, we – a group of Bedouins and I...

Jan 16, 2018, 4:50 AM

Empowering Bedouin women: what gets lost in translation (Shifting Sands. Stories from the Negev Bedouin community)

‘I don’t know.’ We were sitting in the Rahat Women’s Association office, discussing with Sabha – the CEO of the organization – the mission of this charity. She had just got asked by her guest about feminism, and what...

Jan 11, 2018, 12:31 AM

Sabha, the Bedouin woman, or the journey there — and back again? (Shifting Sands. Stories from the Negev Bedouin community)

(Courtesy, Dorota Molin)

This intelligent pioneer would give up the hot shower to be able to live in the desert village again

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About Me

Dorota, originally Czech, is a Semitic linguist, working at the University of Cambridge, where she also obtained her PhD. She researches Neo-Aramaic - the language of Jewish and Christian minorities from Kurdish Iraq. She also teaches and works on Biblical and Modern Hebrew. She's lived and studied in Israel, working in a charity advancing Bedouin women and at the Polish Embassy.