Native foods part 2

Question 1

What does Murina do?

Answer 1

She dusts, organizes, does the landury and keeps an eye on the kids in the neighborhood

Question 2

What is Murina’s ethnicity?

Answer 2

A Bedouin a nomadic group that travels the middle east and north africa

Question 3

How is Murina physically described?

Answer 3

Gold eyes lined with a lot of kohl with swirling tatoos on her hands and chin

Question 4

What languages can Murina speak?

Answer 4

Arabic and English sometimes when she talks fast she will use a mix of both

Question 5

Who is someone that Diana confides in about her struggles of being understood before she can speak Arabic?

Answer 5

Murina

Question 6

What is Murina’s nickname for Diana? And what does it mean?

Answer 6

Habeebti which means my dearest

Question 7

Who does Murina and Hamouda work for?

Answer 7

Diana’s family specifically, they have been working for Bud’s side of the family for years

Question 8

Do Murina and Hamouda get paid, especially with Bud out of work so much?

Answer 8

Possibly not they might just be getting compensated with room and board

Question 9

Who was Bud raised by?

Answer 9

Murina’s mother

Question 10

How does Murina know some English words?

Answer 10

Because Bud’s mother would read her English fairy tales while she helped her mom with emboridery

Question 11

What work does Hamouda do?

Answer 11

He fixes things around the house, prays, gardens, and other jobs as needed

Question 12

Where Hamouda and his family from?

Answer 12

They are Circassain, a group from the Caucasus moutains and are devout muslims

Question 13

How is Hamouda physically described?

Answer 13

As having skin the color of cinder and hazel eyes. He also has a limp from when a horse fell on him and a prostectic calf because of it

Question 14

How is Hamodua with Diana and her sisters?

Answer 14

Calming and caring. He can get Monica to stop crying and pulling around her crib
he also helps them safely navigate traffic to get ice cream every afternoon

Question 15

Why does Diana worry about Murina and Hamodua?

Answer 15

She worries about them because she noticed that the only food they eat is whatever food is leftover

Question 16

What does Diana do to help quell her worries about Murina and Hamouda?

Answer 16

She leaves at least half of her plate for them

Question 17

Why does Diana one day decide to take her and her sisters out for ice cream on their own?

Answer 17

Because she noticed that Hamouda comes back inside sweaty, blochy, and with his limp more pronounced than normal

Question 18

What kind of ice cream do they always get at the ice cream stand?

Answer 18

neopolatian
stawberry, chocolate, and vanilla

Question 19

Who tries to ask Diana if she needs help and in what languages? What does Diana respond in?

Answer 19

The flower lady and she asks in both English and French. Diana responds in Arabic which shocks her because she doesn’t think the looked Jordian

Question 20

Who helps Diana and her sisters get back from the ice cream stand?

Answer 20

Hamouda who comes running from the house to find her and her sisters

Question 21

What was Hamouda’s reaction to seeing them again?

Answer 21

He was crying and saying “Alhumdullilah!” which was the first time she had seen a man cry

Question 22

Where is Diana able to get something that reminds her of the US and what is it? How does it compare?

Answer 22

A hotel in downtown to get US newspapers and they have hot chocolate that is better the hot chocolate mixes in the US

Question 23

What is khumiseen?

Answer 23

Is is a kind of dusy wind that means 50 or in other words 50 days of this kind of dust storm

Question 24

Who lives at the source of the winds?

Answer 24

Bud’s grand uncle or Sheikh along with his youngest brother uncle Ramzi

Question 25

Where was Bud raised and why?

Answer 25

During the school year he lived with his mother in a townhouse in city because she did not them to live like the traditional Bedouin way In the summer he would live with his father in the country where he would sleep outside with the animals

Question 26

Were does uncle Ramzi live and what is his nickname?

Answer 26

He lives in a mud cave by himself in the desert and his brother call him the last Bedouin

Question 27

What is the full title for Bud's Grand Uncle? And what is his role in the Bedouin tribe?

Answer 27

Sheikh Ali Alimunah who is the head/ leader of the tribe

Question 28

What happens to Diana, her Mom, Murnia, and her sisters when they get out of the car when they arrive at Bud's family's place?

Answer 28

They are immideatly surrounded by women who are making comments about Diana's appearence. They try to take her but Murina stops them. Suzy and Monica immideatly get bangles and Kohl put on them

Question 29

How are the gatherings with Bud's family in the country similar to in the city?

Answer 29

They divide into men and women, they cook and talk

Question 30

What is the women's reaction to finding out that Diana can speak Arabic? And what does she say when they ask if she can speak more?

Answer 30

Surprise, and then she just starts saying random words that she's picked up in Arabic

Question 31

What does she notice about Bud when they are visiting his family in the country?

Answer 31

That is he more lively and outgoing than ever, she sees a new part of him he's never seen before

Question 32

Where is her mom, Monica, and Suzy located when visiting Bud's family in the country?

Answer 32

They are on the outer edge of the circle her mom feeling, and looking noticeably out of place

Question 33

What does the realize about her parents and herself when they are visiting Bud's family in the country?

Answer 33

How unlikely it was for them to meet since they come form such different backgrounds and in turn how unlikely it was for her to ever exist

Question 34

What do they eat when visiting the family in the country? What is in it?

Answer 34

Which is made of meat, rice, bread, and yougurt sauce

Question 35

What does the Sheikh say before everyone eats and what does it mean?

Answer 35

He says a prayer "Sahtain, sahtain, alhumdullilah" (To your health, thanks to be God)

Question 36

How is Mensaf eaten?

Answer 36

Hot as soon as its cooked, with your hands you dip your hands into the food on a shared dish squish it into a ball and then push it into your mouth with your thumb and forefinger

Question 37

How does Diana and her sisters eat the Mensaf?

Answer 37

The men feed it to them

Question 38

What do they eat after dinner?

Answer 38

Fruit of all kinds that are peeled by knives

Question 39

What does Murina suggest to Diana after dinner?

Answer 39

That they can stay in the countryside and Murina a raise her

Question 40

Why can't Murina have any kids?

Answer 40

Because she is 30 and single

Question 41

If Diana had done ____________________ she never would have left the countryside

Answer 41

stayed with Murina for a second longer

Question 42

What was the question that Bud asked?

Answer 42

He can't remember

Question 43

What are all the recipies for that are included in this section?

Answer 43

Amazing Arabic Ice Cream Sentimental Hot Chocolate Bedouin Mensaf Leben