1 00:00:01,889 --> 00:00:05,222 (film machine rattling) 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:15,652 --> 00:00:18,569 (children playing) 5 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,420 - [George W. Bush] American and coalition forces 6 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:27,250 are in the early stages of military operations 7 00:00:27,250 --> 00:00:30,200 to disarm Iraq, to free its people, 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,308 and to defend the world from great danger. 9 00:00:32,308 --> 00:00:33,522 (buzzing digital music) 10 00:00:33,522 --> 00:00:37,433 (rapid gunfire blasting) 11 00:00:37,433 --> 00:00:41,683 (flowing, ethereal dramatic music) 12 00:01:01,552 --> 00:01:04,260 (crosstalk) 13 00:01:04,260 --> 00:01:05,593 (crosstalk) - There's been several 14 00:01:05,593 --> 00:01:09,593 casualties already (crosstalk). 15 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,640 (flowing percussion and dramatic ethereal music) 16 00:01:30,332 --> 00:01:35,332 (moves into syncopated digital tones, cultural cello music) 17 00:02:02,286 --> 00:02:07,286 (moves into flowing acoustic bass and cello music) 18 00:02:08,363 --> 00:02:10,940 - Because of the waves of migration 19 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:12,320 that happened in Amman, 20 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,480 first of all you have the Palestinian migrations to Amman, 21 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,282 then you have the Iraqis that are coming to Amman, 22 00:02:18,282 --> 00:02:19,962 that came to Amman. 23 00:02:19,962 --> 00:02:20,810 And then you have the Syrians, 24 00:02:20,810 --> 00:02:22,193 and then you have the Somalis, and the Yemanis, 25 00:02:22,193 --> 00:02:24,350 and the Sudanis. 26 00:02:24,350 --> 00:02:26,100 And then you have the ex-pat community 27 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:29,253 that also coming to Amman to work in humanitarian work. 28 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,520 Everyone that's coming to Amman is bringing 29 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,180 their own culture, and their own music, 30 00:02:34,180 --> 00:02:37,390 and their own food, and their own, you know ideas, 31 00:02:37,390 --> 00:02:38,440 and the way they look at life. 32 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,775 And that's creating a rich, vibrant fabric. 33 00:02:41,775 --> 00:02:46,775 (culturally rich and flowing acoustic bass and cello music) 34 00:03:38,445 --> 00:03:41,195 Well my name is Mohammed Zakaria. 35 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,723 I'm 32 years old. 36 00:03:44,947 --> 00:03:46,720 I'm a Palestinian, Jordanian. 37 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,540 I've always had a identity crisis. 38 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:53,690 I never had an identity crisis, I was like, yeah whatever. 39 00:03:53,690 --> 00:03:56,390 And then I was traveling to the US once, 40 00:03:56,390 --> 00:03:57,547 and everybody was asking me, "Where you from?" 41 00:03:57,547 --> 00:03:59,670 And I was like, where am I from? 42 00:03:59,670 --> 00:04:03,593 Am I from Jordan, am I Palestinian, what am I? 43 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:06,900 Now I say I'm a Jordanian Palestinian. 44 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,650 My parents are Palestinian, I never lived in Palestine. 45 00:04:11,910 --> 00:04:14,627 Like any Palestinian family you always hear about Palestine 46 00:04:14,627 --> 00:04:16,677 and the stories, and I have family there. 47 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:19,610 I visit quite often. 48 00:04:19,610 --> 00:04:22,280 I got a skateboard when I was 10 years old 49 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,823 as a birthday gift. 50 00:04:25,501 --> 00:04:27,480 From there I was just riding around. 51 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,210 And then when I was 16 we got the internet, 52 00:04:29,210 --> 00:04:31,603 and I found out you can do tricks. 53 00:04:31,603 --> 00:04:32,950 That was it for me, I was like yeah, 54 00:04:32,950 --> 00:04:34,950 that's what I wanted to do. 55 00:04:34,950 --> 00:04:35,783 - [Artist] Irritated? 56 00:04:35,783 --> 00:04:37,860 No, I don't think so, I think just interested. 57 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:39,400 So many are interested in my music. 58 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:40,928 They come up and say things like, 59 00:04:40,928 --> 00:04:42,157 "How do you write those songs? 60 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:43,435 "What do you do first?" 61 00:04:43,435 --> 00:04:47,518 (buzzy syncopated digital music) 62 00:04:53,367 --> 00:04:55,880 How do you write those songs? 63 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,064 (buzzy digital music) ♪ Yo, yo ♪ 64 00:04:58,064 --> 00:05:00,412 ♪ St-St-St-St- stop stop go ♪ 65 00:05:00,412 --> 00:05:05,329 ♪ Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop go go ♪ 66 00:05:14,249 --> 00:05:15,135 ♪ Yo yo ♪ 67 00:05:15,135 --> 00:05:17,306 ♪ Oh my god ♪ 68 00:05:17,306 --> 00:05:19,765 ♪ Oh my god ♪ 69 00:05:19,765 --> 00:05:21,433 ♪ Oh my god ♪ 70 00:05:21,433 --> 00:05:24,917 (scratching vinyl, chants and synthesizer music) 71 00:05:24,917 --> 00:05:26,045 ♪ Oh my god ♪ 72 00:05:26,045 --> 00:05:29,956 (scratching vinyl, chants and synthesizer music) 73 00:05:29,956 --> 00:05:34,210 ♪ Oh my god just look at me oh my god ♪ 74 00:05:34,210 --> 00:05:39,210 (bright, upbeat synthesizer and beats music) 75 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:47,005 (wheels scraping) 76 00:05:47,005 --> 00:05:49,753 (Tamer laughs) 77 00:05:49,753 --> 00:05:53,420 (bright, piano tones music) 78 00:05:55,263 --> 00:05:59,800 - Skateboarding is 99% failure and 1% success. 79 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,700 And so in order to land the trick you have 80 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:03,153 to fall so many times. 81 00:06:04,013 --> 00:06:06,920 And I think this shared struggle that all skateboarders 82 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,723 understand is something that's quite unique. 83 00:06:11,190 --> 00:06:13,170 I understand your struggle to land the straight, 84 00:06:13,170 --> 00:06:14,840 it's a sentimental battle that you have to go 85 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:16,167 to land this trick. 86 00:06:16,167 --> 00:06:19,993 And so I relate to you on a deeper level. 87 00:06:22,220 --> 00:06:25,892 We used to go to my friends house in Smeisani, 88 00:06:25,892 --> 00:06:27,270 and skate in his backyard for a bit. 89 00:06:27,270 --> 00:06:31,953 And then we'd go to cruise the streets looking for spots. 90 00:06:33,270 --> 00:06:36,070 And we usually just ended up in the Burger King 91 00:06:36,070 --> 00:06:38,810 of Smeisani, skating in the parking lot, 92 00:06:38,810 --> 00:06:41,403 there's a small curb that we always like to skate. 93 00:06:43,210 --> 00:06:44,093 From there, 94 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,210 the culture street was built. 95 00:06:47,210 --> 00:06:50,730 And it was perfect it was like a big pedestrian plaza. 96 00:06:50,730 --> 00:06:54,470 It was all marble, anything you might need really. 97 00:06:54,470 --> 00:06:57,370 Benches, you know ledges, stairs. 98 00:06:57,370 --> 00:06:59,080 Anything a skateboarder would need. 99 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,938 And so that was like, whoa that's our spot. 100 00:07:02,938 --> 00:07:04,300 (wheels thuds) 101 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:08,383 (upbeat synthesizer horns music) 102 00:07:12,446 --> 00:07:16,613 (man singing in foreign language) 103 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:36,560 We used to get in a lot of trouble with people there. 104 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,900 'Cause you know if you bring anything new into a culture 105 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:39,733 it's gonna be resisted. 106 00:07:39,733 --> 00:07:42,910 That's like the initial reaction to it. 107 00:07:42,910 --> 00:07:44,083 And so from there, 108 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,050 we started skated there. 109 00:07:46,050 --> 00:07:47,620 And then the Iraq War happened. 110 00:07:47,620 --> 00:07:49,370 And then there was a bunch of kids who moved 111 00:07:49,370 --> 00:07:53,470 from Iraq, a bunch of ex-pat kids moved 112 00:07:53,470 --> 00:07:54,470 from Iraq to Amman. 113 00:07:54,470 --> 00:07:56,410 And they heard about the skate scene in the cultural street. 114 00:07:56,410 --> 00:07:59,110 There was like four of us. 115 00:07:59,110 --> 00:08:01,013 And was me and three other friends. 116 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,720 And from there it started growing. 117 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,100 And what happened after was Red Bull was having 118 00:08:07,101 --> 00:08:08,180 a skate competition. 119 00:08:08,180 --> 00:08:10,540 And I think this is the point where skateboarding 120 00:08:10,540 --> 00:08:12,910 and the scene in Jordan actually blew up. 121 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:15,380 So this is when we found there was a bunch 122 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:17,102 of other people who skate. 123 00:08:17,102 --> 00:08:20,702 (wheels scraping) 124 00:08:20,702 --> 00:08:24,119 (light percussion music) 125 00:08:27,834 --> 00:08:31,260 I think skateboarding's about abilities more than anything. 126 00:08:31,260 --> 00:08:32,660 It's the way you see things. 127 00:08:33,990 --> 00:08:38,990 (easy going percussion and echoing singular guitar music) 128 00:08:50,090 --> 00:08:52,880 That tells you that there's not neccessarily 129 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,690 one way to look at things. 130 00:08:54,690 --> 00:08:56,640 There's so many ways to look at things. 131 00:08:58,090 --> 00:09:01,580 And like a single object that you look at 132 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:04,670 can be viewed from so many different perspectives, 133 00:09:04,670 --> 00:09:06,524 creating so many different meanings. 134 00:09:06,524 --> 00:09:09,691 (light flowing music) 135 00:09:13,035 --> 00:09:15,020 Basically, you know the city is like 136 00:09:15,970 --> 00:09:17,520 a playground for skateboarders. 137 00:09:18,730 --> 00:09:20,850 Regular people call it like obstacles, 138 00:09:20,850 --> 00:09:22,650 skaters call it skate spots. 139 00:09:22,650 --> 00:09:24,250 This is not an obstacle, this is a spot for me 140 00:09:24,250 --> 00:09:26,685 to have fun, this is a spot for me to skate. 141 00:09:26,685 --> 00:09:30,270 (light flowing music) 142 00:09:30,270 --> 00:09:33,450 At the end of the day it's just fun, 143 00:09:33,450 --> 00:09:34,810 skateboarding is fun, and this is why I think 144 00:09:34,810 --> 00:09:37,283 a lot of kids are hooked on skateboarding. 145 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,870 You go out with your crew and you're just goofing around 146 00:09:43,870 --> 00:09:46,170 having fun, and you're challenging yourself. 147 00:09:46,170 --> 00:09:47,550 This is the only challenge that you have, 148 00:09:47,550 --> 00:09:49,833 it's a mental challenge inside your head. 149 00:09:50,850 --> 00:09:53,673 It's the challenge you create for yourself. 150 00:09:54,530 --> 00:09:57,150 Nobody's forcing you into doing a certain trick. 151 00:09:57,150 --> 00:09:59,140 Nobody's forcing you to skate a certain way, 152 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:02,083 or certain style, you do what you want to do, 153 00:10:02,083 --> 00:10:05,290 and you have the community around you to support you. 154 00:10:05,290 --> 00:10:10,290 (light, flowing percussion and orchestral strings music) 155 00:10:27,420 --> 00:10:30,903 I think the space in Amman is very discriminating. 156 00:10:32,270 --> 00:10:33,483 If you're a young kid, 157 00:10:34,410 --> 00:10:35,980 you don't have any money, there's really no where 158 00:10:35,980 --> 00:10:36,813 for you to go. 159 00:10:36,813 --> 00:10:39,020 So you end up on the street and this is where 160 00:10:39,020 --> 00:10:42,224 problems start, and women are like foreign to you, 161 00:10:42,224 --> 00:10:43,057 they're like aliens. 162 00:10:43,057 --> 00:10:44,590 Because you never interacted with women. 163 00:10:44,590 --> 00:10:46,590 You go to public schools it's segregated. 164 00:10:46,590 --> 00:10:48,370 You weren't allowed in coffee shops, 165 00:10:48,370 --> 00:10:53,160 'cause it's like they have a couples only policy. 166 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:54,683 You weren't allowed in malls. 167 00:10:55,871 --> 00:10:58,000 The space in Amman is very discriminating. 168 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,270 It's either residential space, or a private space. 169 00:11:01,270 --> 00:11:04,050 If you don't have a certain socioeconomic status 170 00:11:04,050 --> 00:11:05,800 it was hard for you to do anything. 171 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,053 That's why skateboarding was very important to me, 172 00:11:09,053 --> 00:11:12,131 because it was an outlet from all that stuff. 173 00:11:12,131 --> 00:11:14,964 (wheels scraping) 174 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:21,847 And so in 2014 175 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,270 I got contacted by Make Life Skate Life, 176 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:28,723 which is a German NGO. 177 00:11:29,950 --> 00:11:31,730 What they do is they build skate parks 178 00:11:31,730 --> 00:11:35,506 in underprivileged communities, or areas. 179 00:11:35,506 --> 00:11:40,339 (flowing flute and acoustic guitar music) 180 00:11:42,610 --> 00:11:44,350 That was a really emotional time for me 181 00:11:44,350 --> 00:11:47,023 to be able to raise that much money. 182 00:11:47,023 --> 00:11:49,060 And then, the volunteers who came to Amman, 183 00:11:49,060 --> 00:11:51,653 it was like a bunch of volunteers from Europe, 184 00:11:52,973 --> 00:11:54,440 from the States, from England, 185 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,280 from like a bunch a different places. 186 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:57,690 They met up in Amman. 187 00:11:57,690 --> 00:12:02,607 (upbeat, easy going bass and guitar music) 188 00:12:05,894 --> 00:12:08,520 The thing with skateboarding is that if you're, 189 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,840 if you're a skater and you go anywhere else, 190 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,560 you automatically have friends from the skate community. 191 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:18,290 And so, you know these people were friends 192 00:12:18,290 --> 00:12:20,620 before they even knew each other. 193 00:12:20,620 --> 00:12:22,740 The energy on the construction site was 194 00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:24,003 the nicest energy. 195 00:12:25,468 --> 00:12:27,130 (tools thud) 196 00:12:27,130 --> 00:12:29,310 The idea is that you form the shape of a skate park 197 00:12:29,310 --> 00:12:31,313 before you start laying any concrete. 198 00:12:32,860 --> 00:12:35,143 The prepping alone was a lot of work. 199 00:12:37,431 --> 00:12:39,200 And then the pouring of the concrete, 200 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,790 to make the concrete smooth it has 201 00:12:41,790 --> 00:12:43,750 to go through three rounds. 202 00:12:43,750 --> 00:12:45,450 It was all done by hand, you know. 203 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,940 I think the love for skateboarding manifested itself 204 00:12:49,940 --> 00:12:52,770 in the skate park in the construction side. 205 00:12:52,770 --> 00:12:55,710 And the cool thing about the construction is, 206 00:12:55,710 --> 00:12:57,420 the construction period is that it wasn't something 207 00:12:57,420 --> 00:12:58,790 that was fenced off. 208 00:12:58,790 --> 00:13:02,040 It wasn't something that was dropped on to the community 209 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,520 without them knowing what was going on. 210 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,939 The community was really involved. 211 00:13:06,939 --> 00:13:11,439 (flowing, cultural low strings music) 212 00:13:34,659 --> 00:13:37,492 (wheels scraping) 213 00:13:44,479 --> 00:13:47,010 (children playing) 214 00:13:47,010 --> 00:13:48,540 The name 7 Hills came from Amman, 215 00:13:48,540 --> 00:13:51,573 because it was built on seven mountains. 216 00:13:51,573 --> 00:13:56,573 (easy going percussion, deep strings and synthesizer music) 217 00:14:33,251 --> 00:14:35,466 (children playing) 218 00:14:35,466 --> 00:14:37,967 (wheels scraping) 219 00:14:37,967 --> 00:14:42,967 (easy going percussion, deep strings and synthesizer music) 220 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:49,260 (wheels scraping) 221 00:14:50,709 --> 00:14:55,709 (easy going percussion, deep strings and synthesizer music) 222 00:15:07,020 --> 00:15:10,050 I think the city's also manifested in the skate park 223 00:15:10,050 --> 00:15:13,346 in a way, 'cause you see the community at the skate park. 224 00:15:13,346 --> 00:15:16,070 We have kids from Palestine, we have kids from Iraq, 225 00:15:16,070 --> 00:15:18,250 we have kids from Syria, from Yeman, from Somalia, 226 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,840 from Sudan, boys and girls. 227 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,997 And they're all like mingling together in this community. 228 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:26,710 Just kids want to have fun, you know. 229 00:15:26,710 --> 00:15:28,760 If you bring something that's fun into a community 230 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,750 and you say, "Here, go have fun," 231 00:15:31,750 --> 00:15:36,094 I think all the barriers kind of like disappear. 232 00:15:36,094 --> 00:15:41,094 (easy going percussion, deep strings and synthesizer music) 233 00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:45,279 - My name is Kas Wauters. 234 00:15:45,279 --> 00:15:49,010 I'm the skateboarding director of 7 Hills. 235 00:15:49,010 --> 00:15:50,950 I'm from Belgium from Rouvroy. 236 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:55,140 And I came for the first time to Amman in 2016, 237 00:15:55,140 --> 00:15:56,521 the end of 2016. 238 00:15:56,521 --> 00:15:58,730 (crosstalk) 239 00:15:58,730 --> 00:16:01,230 (fuzzy music) 240 00:16:02,694 --> 00:16:06,212 (wheels popping and scraping) 241 00:16:06,212 --> 00:16:09,045 (wheels scraping) 242 00:16:11,552 --> 00:16:13,615 (wheels pop) 243 00:16:13,615 --> 00:16:17,026 (wheels scraping) 244 00:16:17,026 --> 00:16:19,898 (wheels pop) 245 00:16:19,898 --> 00:16:23,731 (wheels popping and scraping) 246 00:16:29,169 --> 00:16:31,502 (Kas yells) 247 00:16:32,451 --> 00:16:37,451 (upbeat percussion and fuzzy digital music) 248 00:16:39,309 --> 00:16:41,520 Like the protein of skateboarding is having fun, 249 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,950 and having fun makes it possible for kids 250 00:16:44,890 --> 00:16:48,043 to forget about all the differences they see between people. 251 00:16:49,710 --> 00:16:52,383 And just interact in a positive way with each other. 252 00:16:55,384 --> 00:16:56,300 (wheels scraping) 253 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:58,110 The tool to connect 254 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,923 refugees, locals, boys, girls, 255 00:17:02,940 --> 00:17:06,150 just as like one thing, and that's skateboarding. 256 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:10,650 (upbeat percussion and digital music) 257 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,520 If you teach the kids at a young age they're equal 258 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,807 they can take it with them. 259 00:17:27,807 --> 00:17:32,511 And they can like, give it to the next generation. 260 00:17:32,511 --> 00:17:37,011 (upbeat percussion and digital music) 261 00:17:44,474 --> 00:17:48,807 (moves to rapid digital percussion) 262 00:17:53,943 --> 00:17:58,943 (moves to upbeat percussion and digital music) 263 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:19,032 (wheels scraping) 264 00:18:19,032 --> 00:18:24,032 (upbeat percussion and digital music) 265 00:18:24,122 --> 00:18:26,961 Whoa! (wheels scrape) 266 00:18:26,961 --> 00:18:29,711 (people playing) 267 00:18:33,830 --> 00:18:34,980 - So my name is Matias. 268 00:18:36,749 --> 00:18:38,120 It's kind of hard to introduce myself here, 269 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,850 because no one can spell Matias or pronounce it. 270 00:18:40,850 --> 00:18:44,440 So I go with Matze, which is like easier for them. 271 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,763 I'm 28, I'm from Hamburg, Germany. 272 00:18:48,290 --> 00:18:50,077 I got here like four weeks ago. 273 00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:55,429 (upbeat percussion and digital music) 274 00:19:03,628 --> 00:19:05,640 (kids playing) 275 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:06,950 - Hey, my name is Frederick. 276 00:19:06,950 --> 00:19:10,793 I'm 23 years old, and I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark. 277 00:19:11,697 --> 00:19:14,530 (wheels scraping) 278 00:19:20,584 --> 00:19:22,320 When I first told my parents that I was going 279 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,050 to Jordan, Amman, they was first a bit afraid, 280 00:19:26,050 --> 00:19:27,900 because it's here in the Middle East, 281 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,140 and so close to countries where you have war, 282 00:19:31,140 --> 00:19:33,523 like Syria and Iraq. 283 00:19:34,420 --> 00:19:36,060 But actually now I've been here for so long, 284 00:19:36,060 --> 00:19:38,510 and I find it very peaceful. 285 00:19:38,510 --> 00:19:40,540 The people are so kind here in Amman. 286 00:19:40,540 --> 00:19:42,840 And I already make a lot of good friends 287 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,243 with some of the locals. 288 00:19:46,176 --> 00:19:47,036 It really turned my mind. 289 00:19:47,036 --> 00:19:49,430 I thought it was gonna be different. 290 00:19:49,430 --> 00:19:51,820 It turned out really positive, I think. 291 00:19:51,820 --> 00:19:53,730 And now I've been here for one month, 292 00:19:53,730 --> 00:19:56,550 and I think it's been the most exciting 293 00:19:56,550 --> 00:19:58,333 experience of my life. 294 00:19:59,524 --> 00:20:03,441 (light ethereal strings music) 295 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,640 - The reason we are here is because Mohammad 296 00:20:14,190 --> 00:20:16,780 is like the founder of Philadelphia Skateboards. 297 00:20:16,780 --> 00:20:19,630 And also, the reason why we have this park here, 298 00:20:19,630 --> 00:20:22,190 because he is like the go-to guy here. 299 00:20:22,190 --> 00:20:23,340 He's the godfather of 300 00:20:24,610 --> 00:20:27,633 Amman skateboarding, or let's even say Middle East. 301 00:20:28,570 --> 00:20:29,850 Maybe that's a little much, 302 00:20:29,850 --> 00:20:31,210 but he has like connection to all 303 00:20:31,210 --> 00:20:32,960 over Middle East for skateboarding. 304 00:20:33,950 --> 00:20:35,880 He's basically responsible that skateboarding 305 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,890 is still a thing in Jordan or in Amman. 306 00:20:38,890 --> 00:20:43,203 And he tries to maintain the session like big time. 307 00:20:45,278 --> 00:20:49,195 (light ethereal strings music) 308 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:55,210 - I mean for me the reason I wanted to build 309 00:20:55,210 --> 00:20:58,893 the 7 Hills Skate Park was more of a selfish reason. 310 00:21:00,399 --> 00:21:03,250 'Cause I always wanted a skate board for myself to skate. 311 00:21:03,250 --> 00:21:05,360 But at the same time I didn't want it to be 312 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,220 for me only, I could have built a private skate park 313 00:21:08,220 --> 00:21:11,280 and charged money for people to come in. 314 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,263 But I wanted to share this. 315 00:21:14,110 --> 00:21:17,260 If you're happy in a group of sad people, 316 00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:18,830 what is that worth? 317 00:21:18,830 --> 00:21:20,450 What is that joy worth? 318 00:21:20,450 --> 00:21:25,450 So I think joy is magnified and multiplied. 319 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:28,560 So it's something that I always wanted 320 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,640 is to share this joy of skateboarding 321 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,810 and kind of like push it forward. 322 00:21:32,810 --> 00:21:35,630 I was given a gift of skateboarding. 323 00:21:35,630 --> 00:21:38,480 This is something that I wanted to pass on to other kids. 324 00:21:40,170 --> 00:21:43,080 I built 7 Hills because I wanted to share 325 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,091 the joy of skateboarding. 326 00:21:45,091 --> 00:21:50,091 (light, ethereal plucked strings and piano music) 327 00:22:03,976 --> 00:22:06,893 You really see it, if you give kids 328 00:22:08,130 --> 00:22:10,853 love, love is what you're gonna get back. 329 00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:17,197 (light, ethereal plucked strings and piano music) 330 00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:30,810 With any partners that we work with 331 00:22:30,810 --> 00:22:32,530 we always make sure to tell them that 332 00:22:32,530 --> 00:22:35,360 we want 50% boys, 50% girls. 333 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,670 And I think that's important because what we're trying 334 00:22:37,670 --> 00:22:40,470 to do is break the gender barrier. 335 00:22:40,470 --> 00:22:42,700 I think it's important that the boys interact 336 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:44,790 with the girls, and the girls interact with the boys 337 00:22:44,790 --> 00:22:46,143 in a public space. 338 00:22:47,260 --> 00:22:50,010 They both feel respected because a lot of the girls 339 00:22:50,010 --> 00:22:53,270 they have a lot of problems being in public spaces 340 00:22:53,270 --> 00:22:54,103 most of the time. 341 00:22:54,103 --> 00:22:56,363 Because there's a lot of harassment. 342 00:22:59,030 --> 00:23:01,430 But it's very important to us that the boys 343 00:23:01,430 --> 00:23:04,073 learn to respect the girls in a public space. 344 00:23:05,195 --> 00:23:08,383 And the girls understand that they have the right 345 00:23:08,383 --> 00:23:11,440 to the space like the boys do. 346 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,100 And that they are both equally responsible 347 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:15,250 for the space, as well. 348 00:23:18,494 --> 00:23:20,960 - My name is Rand from Jordan, I'm 16. 349 00:23:28,458 --> 00:23:32,541 (Rand speaking foreign language) 350 00:23:46,431 --> 00:23:50,931 (light flowing plucked strings music) 351 00:24:01,493 --> 00:24:05,576 (Rand speaking foreign language) 352 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:40,560 - They never interacted with women. 353 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,603 And so that was something that's super foreign for them. 354 00:24:42,603 --> 00:24:46,253 It's like, whoa, whoa women, I don't understand girls. 355 00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:51,963 It's like something that's alien for them. 356 00:24:51,963 --> 00:24:56,791 It's like, oh so we have maybe I want to cat call them, 357 00:24:56,791 --> 00:24:57,993 be rough or like. 358 00:24:59,470 --> 00:25:01,650 But then you see it like the kids start 359 00:25:01,650 --> 00:25:03,571 to interact with the girls, and they understand 360 00:25:03,571 --> 00:25:05,000 at the end of the day it's like, 361 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,983 oh they're just people like us, you know. 362 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,800 - [Narrator] Somalia continued to spiral out of control. 363 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,460 In particular, an offshoot of the failed ICU 364 00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:18,780 began gaining power and committing terror acts country wide. 365 00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:21,700 The group called Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility 366 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:25,640 for multiple bombings, particularly since 2012. 367 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,590 This Al-Qaeda align Jihadist group, 368 00:25:27,590 --> 00:25:29,810 named after the Arabic word for youth, 369 00:25:29,810 --> 00:25:32,180 has specifically targeted government institutions 370 00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:33,610 and non-Muslims. 371 00:25:33,610 --> 00:25:35,730 In short, Somalia has seen a massive increase 372 00:25:35,730 --> 00:25:37,080 in terror groups involvement 373 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,860 since the start of its civil war. 374 00:25:38,860 --> 00:25:41,000 Al-Shabaab represents only a small fraction 375 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,327 of the damage the country has undergone. 376 00:25:43,327 --> 00:25:46,680 (children speaking in foreign language) 377 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:51,097 (Ramla speaking in foreign language) 378 00:26:13,950 --> 00:26:17,440 - I can go on and on about the philosophy of skateboarding 379 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,333 and how it's, 380 00:26:19,932 --> 00:26:21,500 how it effects your character, and how it builds 381 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:23,400 your character and how it teaches you, 382 00:26:24,695 --> 00:26:27,500 you know, success is really made up of like 383 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,163 a bunch of small failures. 384 00:26:30,634 --> 00:26:33,820 You fail once, you adjust your mindset 385 00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:35,110 and the way you're doing a trick, 386 00:26:35,110 --> 00:26:36,890 and then you're like, "Okay let me try it this way." 387 00:26:36,890 --> 00:26:38,910 Then you try it, it doesn't work again, 388 00:26:38,910 --> 00:26:41,060 and you're like, "Okay, okay, let me try it this way." 389 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:43,080 So you make small adjustments, small adjustments 390 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,473 until you get to a formula that works. 391 00:26:46,610 --> 00:26:49,260 Even if you land it, even if you land a trick, 392 00:26:49,260 --> 00:26:51,610 it doesn't mean you're gonna do it every try now. 393 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,770 It's still a constant struggle. 394 00:26:53,770 --> 00:26:55,980 And so that teaches you about life, really. 395 00:26:57,130 --> 00:27:01,010 Anything you can try is gonna be, 396 00:27:01,010 --> 00:27:03,339 you're most likely to fail at first. 397 00:27:03,339 --> 00:27:05,041 But that shouldn't stop you. 398 00:27:05,041 --> 00:27:07,203 You look at your failures, you learn from it. 399 00:27:07,203 --> 00:27:09,278 I think failure is the best teacher. 400 00:27:09,278 --> 00:27:12,528 (twanging fuzzy music) 401 00:27:15,753 --> 00:27:20,753 (moves to upbeat bass and percussion music) 402 00:27:31,380 --> 00:27:36,213 (Abdul-Hakiem speaks in foreign language) 403 00:27:37,301 --> 00:27:40,134 (wheels scraping) 404 00:27:44,131 --> 00:27:48,714 (Abdul-Hakiem speaks foreign language) 405 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:56,275 (upbeat culture rich instrument bass music) 406 00:27:57,565 --> 00:28:01,648 (Hakiem speaks foreign language) 407 00:28:14,681 --> 00:28:19,681 (upbeat culture rich instrument bass and cello music) 408 00:28:21,527 --> 00:28:25,610 (Hakiem speaks foreign language) 409 00:28:32,350 --> 00:28:35,183 (wheels scraping) 410 00:28:36,679 --> 00:28:40,277 (upbeat culture rich instrument bass and cello music) 411 00:28:40,277 --> 00:28:44,360 (Hakiem speaks foreign language) 412 00:28:51,150 --> 00:28:56,150 (upbeat culture rich instrument bass and cello music) 413 00:28:58,749 --> 00:29:02,832 (Hakiem speaks foreign language) 414 00:29:06,030 --> 00:29:07,190 - It wasn't until 415 00:29:08,090 --> 00:29:10,280 maybe within the first year of me skating 416 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,820 that I got to go to a skate park. 417 00:29:12,820 --> 00:29:14,860 And that's when I saw the possibilities. 418 00:29:14,860 --> 00:29:16,980 That's literally when I saw people flying 419 00:29:16,980 --> 00:29:18,520 out of swimming pools. 420 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,760 And that's when I devoted myself to it. 421 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,310 In the early days I didn't have 422 00:29:24,830 --> 00:29:26,960 a hero, or an inspiration. 423 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,000 But as I got into it, I found them, 424 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,953 based on my style of skating, and based on my interests. 425 00:29:34,286 --> 00:29:37,060 I mean for sure it was Eddie Elguera 426 00:29:37,060 --> 00:29:40,110 who I thought was the most innovative skater at the time. 427 00:29:40,110 --> 00:29:42,500 The guy who was concentrating on doing tricks. 428 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,650 And, that's what I wanted to do was 429 00:29:44,650 --> 00:29:46,173 I wanted to do tricks. 430 00:29:47,030 --> 00:29:49,200 Well skating felt very free to me. 431 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,420 Skating felt like this blank canvas 432 00:29:51,420 --> 00:29:55,230 and something I could on my own terms in my own style. 433 00:29:55,230 --> 00:29:57,330 So immediately I was drawn to it because of that. 434 00:29:57,330 --> 00:29:59,740 But also because of the daredevil aspects of it. 435 00:29:59,740 --> 00:30:02,780 And so any time I reached any sort of milestone 436 00:30:02,780 --> 00:30:05,020 on my skating was a big deal. 437 00:30:05,020 --> 00:30:07,730 And I'm talking about very simple things. 438 00:30:07,730 --> 00:30:09,350 I remember the first time I was able 439 00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:11,980 to ride up a curb by myself. 440 00:30:11,980 --> 00:30:13,480 Before the Ollie was created, 441 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,940 I'm talking about like just literally 442 00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:18,803 manually rocking the board up and forcing it up. 443 00:30:18,803 --> 00:30:19,720 And that was a big deal to me, 444 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,800 'cause that changed the landscape all of a sudden. 445 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,910 I could leave the street and go on the sidewalk 446 00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:26,843 without getting off my board. 447 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:31,590 And then fast forward to when I found pool skating, 448 00:30:31,590 --> 00:30:33,640 I very much remember the first time I ever got 449 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:34,740 to the top of the pool, 450 00:30:34,740 --> 00:30:37,410 and got my board out above the pool. 451 00:30:37,410 --> 00:30:38,983 And I did a real aerial. 452 00:30:41,910 --> 00:30:44,020 Those things, they're really gratifying. 453 00:30:44,020 --> 00:30:45,640 Not just because they're a milestone, 454 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,000 but because a lot of times it's the goal 455 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:48,900 you put on yourself. 456 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:52,030 So it's all about your self motivation, 457 00:30:52,030 --> 00:30:54,380 your self confidence. 458 00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:56,750 And building that up, and maybe nothing else 459 00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:58,160 provided that for you. 460 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,490 Nothing else provided that for me in my life. 461 00:31:00,490 --> 00:31:03,330 That I felt like, oh I created this challenge 462 00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:05,021 and I overcame it. 463 00:31:05,021 --> 00:31:07,521 (light music) 464 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,580 Skating, it doesn't matter how far you get, 465 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:14,420 you can always do better. 466 00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:15,540 And that's what I've loved about it, 467 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,090 you can continue to challenge yourself. 468 00:31:17,090 --> 00:31:19,640 You're never going to master everything in skating. 469 00:31:22,929 --> 00:31:24,410 Well the environment of the skate park, 470 00:31:24,410 --> 00:31:27,280 first and foremost, is a place to hone your skills, 471 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,140 a place to develop your techniques. 472 00:31:30,140 --> 00:31:32,740 But, I think more importantly and more deeply, 473 00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:36,710 it's a place to find a community and to share ideas. 474 00:31:36,710 --> 00:31:39,160 And, a home away from home. 475 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,310 I spent every waking hour at the skate park 476 00:31:42,310 --> 00:31:44,980 when I wasn't in school, that was it. 477 00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:49,480 I went straight from school to the park until it closed, 478 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,380 and then when my parents picked me up. 479 00:31:53,750 --> 00:31:55,500 I found my tribe there. 480 00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:59,550 I found a bunch of people that thought along the same lines, 481 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:02,590 had very creative aspects, 482 00:32:02,590 --> 00:32:05,730 were willing to push the boundaries of all kinds of, 483 00:32:05,730 --> 00:32:10,730 including skating, but also in terms of rules, 484 00:32:11,190 --> 00:32:15,150 in terms of music, in terms of fashion. 485 00:32:15,150 --> 00:32:18,720 It was all like this very creative 486 00:32:19,770 --> 00:32:24,123 group of misfits, that's my best explanation of it. 487 00:32:25,150 --> 00:32:27,460 The common bond was skating. 488 00:32:27,460 --> 00:32:29,750 But beyond skating there was a deeper connection, 489 00:32:29,750 --> 00:32:31,720 because I identify with these people, 490 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,800 that we love something completely different. 491 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,490 And we made that our identity. 492 00:32:37,490 --> 00:32:41,523 And we embraced it, and we support each other. 493 00:32:43,570 --> 00:32:46,003 - You have music that's related to the culture. 494 00:32:47,335 --> 00:32:50,190 You have the street culture. 495 00:32:50,190 --> 00:32:53,770 I remember when like in culture street 496 00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:56,643 where skateboarding happened in Jordan. 497 00:32:57,740 --> 00:32:59,650 I remember there was a time when there would be 498 00:32:59,650 --> 00:33:01,970 break dancers, there'd be the beat boxers there, 499 00:33:01,970 --> 00:33:04,790 the graffiti guys and the hip hop guys. 500 00:33:04,790 --> 00:33:07,803 That was also the perfect name for a street culture. 501 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,533 Graffiti artists are like skateboarders in a way. 502 00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:15,787 You people see a wall, they see a canvas. 503 00:33:15,787 --> 00:33:20,787 (upbeat plucking acoustic strings and beat music) 504 00:33:41,570 --> 00:33:44,910 - My name is Ghaith Abudayyen, I'm 16 years old, 505 00:33:44,910 --> 00:33:46,612 I'm from Jordan. 506 00:33:46,612 --> 00:33:51,612 (upbeat plucking acoustic strings and beat music) 507 00:33:52,744 --> 00:33:55,270 (wheels scraping) 508 00:33:55,270 --> 00:33:58,840 I used to watch movies and see skaters 509 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,080 and how they are having fun. 510 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,680 Then I met my friend Akem he's my classmate. 511 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,745 So he told me about 7 Hills. 512 00:34:07,745 --> 00:34:10,203 And I just went there and start skating. 513 00:34:11,094 --> 00:34:13,060 It's a really cool place. 514 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:14,723 It's full of positive energy, 515 00:34:15,790 --> 00:34:19,488 and yeah it's my favorite place on Planet Earth, 516 00:34:19,488 --> 00:34:20,905 I really like it. 517 00:34:23,587 --> 00:34:26,620 There are a lot of street artists, 518 00:34:26,620 --> 00:34:30,010 and graffiti artists in Jordan. 519 00:34:30,010 --> 00:34:35,006 I want the art here in Jordan to get better. 520 00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:38,839 (light plucked strings music) 521 00:34:45,045 --> 00:34:49,640 (moves to upbeat synthesizer music) 522 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,190 I'm trying to like make my own style. 523 00:34:53,190 --> 00:34:56,720 Now I'm practicing to get my own style. 524 00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:58,833 And I do like graffiti lettering. 525 00:34:59,670 --> 00:35:04,670 So trying to make a style for me. 526 00:35:04,690 --> 00:35:06,083 I really like Wize One. 527 00:35:07,510 --> 00:35:09,640 He teach me a lot of things. 528 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,500 And he really helped me when I started. 529 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:14,633 He'd been doing graffiti for a long time. 530 00:35:17,510 --> 00:35:20,383 He's the godfather of street art. 531 00:35:22,043 --> 00:35:27,043 (upbeat plucking acoustic strings and beat music) 532 00:35:36,730 --> 00:35:40,647 - Hello, my name is Wesam Shadid, AKA Wize One. 533 00:35:41,633 --> 00:35:43,220 I'm a full time graffiti artist. 534 00:35:43,220 --> 00:35:47,937 And I've been doing that for almost 15 years. 535 00:35:47,937 --> 00:35:52,187 (light beat and synthesizer music) 536 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:02,290 Whenever you go to skate park 537 00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:03,980 you'll find that it's full of graffiti, 538 00:36:03,980 --> 00:36:06,850 it's like a sports for graffiti. 539 00:36:06,850 --> 00:36:10,770 So skate park it means always graffiti. 540 00:36:10,770 --> 00:36:14,400 Skating is related to graffiti in somehow. 541 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,583 You find the graffiti designs and art on the skateboard. 542 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,200 You find graffiti artists painting and drawing skateboards, 543 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,710 and people skating, and jumping and all that stuff. 544 00:36:24,710 --> 00:36:27,690 And fashion, and everything, they're all related. 545 00:36:27,690 --> 00:36:28,943 Full circle together. 546 00:36:31,590 --> 00:36:34,143 I draw women, I love to draw women. 547 00:36:35,162 --> 00:36:37,112 It's something really powerful to draw. 548 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,490 It represents 549 00:36:41,140 --> 00:36:44,340 community, society, everything in our life. 550 00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:47,283 Woman is, it's all about everything. 551 00:36:47,283 --> 00:36:49,866 (upbeat music) 552 00:36:58,927 --> 00:37:00,600 You can use art as a tool, 553 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,530 and sometimes you express yourself. 554 00:37:03,530 --> 00:37:08,110 Art is a sender and a receiver. 555 00:37:08,110 --> 00:37:09,660 You send a message through art. 556 00:37:11,307 --> 00:37:14,023 And people they receive that message through your art 557 00:37:14,023 --> 00:37:17,910 when they pass by your artwork in the cities. 558 00:37:17,910 --> 00:37:21,275 So it could be a powerful tool to express yourself, 559 00:37:21,275 --> 00:37:25,703 and send messages to people, good messages. 560 00:37:26,623 --> 00:37:30,956 (woman singing in foreign language) 561 00:37:37,292 --> 00:37:39,810 (upbeat music) 562 00:37:39,810 --> 00:37:43,543 - My name is Joanna Arida, and I am from Jordan. 563 00:37:44,890 --> 00:37:48,440 Personally for me, I've never really felt the difference 564 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,100 between a male artist doing mural, 565 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:53,900 and me as a female artist doing mine. 566 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:57,443 I just felt that we're just two artists painting. 567 00:37:59,420 --> 00:38:03,010 If you go to a village here that is very traditional, 568 00:38:03,010 --> 00:38:07,020 they go back to, I think if you go to anywhere 569 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:10,890 that is very like goes back to its roots and tradition, 570 00:38:10,890 --> 00:38:13,890 they're very focused on this idea of 571 00:38:13,890 --> 00:38:17,260 I am man, and you are a woman. 572 00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:19,300 And just when they say that you are a woman, 573 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:21,956 it feels like, did you just insult me? 574 00:38:21,956 --> 00:38:22,790 I mean what do you mean? 575 00:38:22,790 --> 00:38:24,690 It goes with the same thing, all of a sudden, 576 00:38:24,690 --> 00:38:27,940 one day people they did this whole campaign thing, 577 00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:32,420 on when you tell someone that you run like a girl. 578 00:38:32,420 --> 00:38:34,400 Why is that an insult? 579 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,100 Why is running like a girl depicted 580 00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:38,490 as something that's weak? 581 00:38:38,490 --> 00:38:41,070 So I think that, you know it's something that 582 00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:44,320 is embedded in most people's minds, 583 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,560 and it's just really sad that we just associate 584 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,240 women with something that's being weak, 585 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:50,803 while we're really not. 586 00:38:52,910 --> 00:38:56,620 I was born in a family that believed in hard work. 587 00:38:56,620 --> 00:38:59,660 And that believes that if you're passionate enough 588 00:38:59,660 --> 00:39:02,560 to do something, nothing should stop you. 589 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,010 If you believe in this you go out and you get it. 590 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:10,830 I don't really think of it as oh look I'm a woman, 591 00:39:10,830 --> 00:39:11,663 I'm doing this. 592 00:39:11,663 --> 00:39:14,970 I just think about it as me, Joanna, 593 00:39:14,970 --> 00:39:18,720 doing something and I have this mural that I need to finish. 594 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,160 And I want to prove it to myself. 595 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,410 I want to do this mural and I want to take 596 00:39:24,410 --> 00:39:26,070 a step back and look at it and be like, 597 00:39:26,070 --> 00:39:29,850 hey I did that, that's pretty cool, you know. 598 00:39:29,850 --> 00:39:34,850 So it's kind of like me as me, not me as the female part. 599 00:39:36,623 --> 00:39:39,123 (light music) 600 00:39:43,485 --> 00:39:46,485 (people chattering) 601 00:39:48,890 --> 00:39:50,260 - [Reporter] Investigators in Yemen 602 00:39:50,260 --> 00:39:52,080 are looking into how an airstrike 603 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,650 in the northern part of the country 604 00:39:53,650 --> 00:39:56,240 ended up hitting a school bus, 605 00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,443 killing 40 children, and injuring 56 more. 606 00:40:00,430 --> 00:40:02,500 It's one of the most horrifying episodes 607 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:04,540 in a grueling war that's already taken 608 00:40:04,540 --> 00:40:06,773 more than 10,000 civilian lives. 609 00:40:07,645 --> 00:40:10,646 (baby crying) 610 00:40:10,646 --> 00:40:13,896 (light ethereal music) 611 00:40:22,374 --> 00:40:26,874 (Sadiya speaking in foreign language) 612 00:40:45,754 --> 00:40:50,754 (upbeat beats and ethereal synthesizer music) 613 00:41:01,983 --> 00:41:06,233 (Sadiya speaking foreign language) 614 00:41:15,759 --> 00:41:20,759 (upbeat beats and ethereal synthesizer music) 615 00:41:26,345 --> 00:41:28,250 - Think about it, when you're living, 616 00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:30,920 when you're sitting at your home and just chilling. 617 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,880 And then someday, just like that, you lose it all. 618 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,540 And then you try to escape to another country, 619 00:41:37,540 --> 00:41:41,423 and all they do is just shut their doors and they say no. 620 00:41:43,230 --> 00:41:46,273 What would that do to that person who lost everything? 621 00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:57,250 When there's a child, a child who has lost his home, 622 00:41:57,250 --> 00:41:59,440 and at that young age he loses his home, 623 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:00,910 he loses his own country. 624 00:42:00,910 --> 00:42:03,740 And then he comes to this stranger country, 625 00:42:03,740 --> 00:42:05,280 and it takes them in. 626 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,457 And then at some point someone says, "Hey let's go skate. 627 00:42:09,457 --> 00:42:11,730 "Hey, let's go do art." 628 00:42:11,730 --> 00:42:13,920 I think that that's just something that really 629 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,663 touches you spiritually and is like hey, 630 00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:19,310 you can be okay. 631 00:42:19,310 --> 00:42:22,270 Maybe it's not at home, maybe you will be at home, 632 00:42:22,270 --> 00:42:24,190 maybe this is home. 633 00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:26,100 But, at some point you are gonna look up 634 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:28,196 and be like, it's okay. 635 00:42:28,196 --> 00:42:31,380 (light music) 636 00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:33,990 - I can't say that I have 637 00:42:33,990 --> 00:42:36,910 a deep knowledge of the refugee crisis. 638 00:42:36,910 --> 00:42:39,340 But I can tell that it is something that is 639 00:42:40,210 --> 00:42:42,670 bigger than ever, more overwhelming that ever. 640 00:42:42,670 --> 00:42:46,610 And people are willing to sacrifice themselves, 641 00:42:46,610 --> 00:42:50,290 and their families to escape some of the worst conditions. 642 00:42:50,290 --> 00:42:54,270 And so, it's obvious that people need help. 643 00:42:54,270 --> 00:42:56,033 And they need somewhere to go. 644 00:42:57,550 --> 00:42:59,600 Thankfully there are a few countries that 645 00:43:00,780 --> 00:43:03,440 will provide them some sort of assistance. 646 00:43:07,260 --> 00:43:09,940 I love that skateboarding has been included 647 00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:11,360 in that process. 648 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,800 I think the easy way out for, 649 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,420 especially people from America who have no experience 650 00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:21,670 with the kind of strife that others are having to endure, 651 00:43:21,670 --> 00:43:24,930 based on basically where they were born. 652 00:43:24,930 --> 00:43:29,030 Is that, oh it's just you know, they're a problem, 653 00:43:29,030 --> 00:43:31,158 and it's not my problem. 654 00:43:31,158 --> 00:43:33,700 But to have true empathy for the people 655 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:38,700 who are going through these hardships is to at least 656 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,170 recognize that they're just people that were born 657 00:43:44,170 --> 00:43:45,640 into a bad situation. 658 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,750 And they're trying to escape for the betterment 659 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:50,280 of their family, or for their kids. 660 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:51,690 Or for themselves. 661 00:43:51,690 --> 00:43:54,983 They're not trying to come and take your job. 662 00:43:55,820 --> 00:43:57,423 They're trying to come survive. 663 00:43:58,740 --> 00:44:02,530 And that, I think that's the shift that needs to happen 664 00:44:02,530 --> 00:44:06,410 in terms of the collective mindset of people who 665 00:44:06,410 --> 00:44:10,543 just want to ignore those harder facts. 666 00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:13,600 That's the stuff that is 667 00:44:14,950 --> 00:44:19,150 is the most difficult to make people understand. 668 00:44:19,150 --> 00:44:21,050 Is that it's just humanity, 669 00:44:21,050 --> 00:44:22,850 and it's just people trying to live. 670 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,360 They're not trying to infiltrate 671 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,310 with their religious beliefs. 672 00:44:28,310 --> 00:44:30,356 They're just trying to survive. 673 00:44:30,356 --> 00:44:33,856 (upbeat percussion music) 674 00:44:41,791 --> 00:44:46,791 (moves into percussion and flowing cello music) 675 00:45:14,410 --> 00:45:16,400 - At the end of the day really we're all the same, 676 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,340 we're just people, you know. 677 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:18,883 We want the same things. 678 00:45:21,241 --> 00:45:23,570 We want love, we want family, we want 679 00:45:24,580 --> 00:45:27,624 to be accepted, we want to be understood. 680 00:45:27,624 --> 00:45:30,300 It's a very basic human needs that we all want. 681 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:32,970 And it's similar everywhere, really. 682 00:45:32,970 --> 00:45:34,900 I don't like labels, I think if you label something 683 00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:36,780 you limit it, you build walls around it. 684 00:45:36,780 --> 00:45:39,113 And then that's set, this is what you are. 685 00:45:44,090 --> 00:45:46,440 This urge like have to define things, 686 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,070 because it's scary if things are not defined. 687 00:45:49,070 --> 00:45:52,010 So this is why I don't like to define things, 688 00:45:52,010 --> 00:45:54,700 or use words like refugee. 689 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:57,940 'Cause that's also like that takes the power 690 00:45:57,940 --> 00:45:59,420 from people when you call them refugees. 691 00:45:59,420 --> 00:46:01,830 It's like you're powerless, you're helpless. 692 00:46:01,830 --> 00:46:03,580 You're here, you don't have a home. 693 00:46:05,630 --> 00:46:07,250 You're here temporarily. 694 00:46:07,250 --> 00:46:08,500 You're supposed to go back home. 695 00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:11,840 But if you say, you're people, 696 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,563 then that's a greater understanding of people. 697 00:46:16,660 --> 00:46:18,720 I don't see the kids that come to the park as refugees, 698 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,720 I see them as just kids who are going 699 00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:22,403 through rough circumstances. 700 00:46:24,250 --> 00:46:28,823 And it's our duty as a community to embrace them. 701 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,550 People reflect on themselves being called refugees. 702 00:46:34,550 --> 00:46:36,470 They fall into this trap of like, 703 00:46:36,470 --> 00:46:38,723 oh yeah I'm a refugee and powerless. 704 00:46:40,850 --> 00:46:42,733 I'm not in like home. 705 00:46:44,570 --> 00:46:48,270 And that goes back to the idea of home, also, what is home? 706 00:46:48,270 --> 00:46:51,190 We're all people who are living on this planet. 707 00:46:51,190 --> 00:46:52,770 And this planet is home. 708 00:46:52,770 --> 00:46:56,150 And the idea of fucking borders, man. 709 00:46:56,150 --> 00:46:58,140 That's like a man made concept. 710 00:46:58,140 --> 00:47:01,150 I'm trying to think of the first person who 711 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,277 put borders around a piece of land and said, 712 00:47:04,277 --> 00:47:06,700 "This is my land, I own this land." 713 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:09,670 Who was the first person to do that? 714 00:47:10,870 --> 00:47:13,870 (light beats music) 715 00:47:15,953 --> 00:47:19,900 A group of people coming together to form this jungle 716 00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:21,867 that we live in, and then we create the systems. 717 00:47:21,867 --> 00:47:24,317 And I don't understand where the hate comes from. 718 00:47:26,740 --> 00:47:27,660 Why do we hate 719 00:47:29,650 --> 00:47:33,393 refugees, or why do we hate people of certain color? 720 00:47:35,220 --> 00:47:37,031 I don't understand it. 721 00:47:37,031 --> 00:47:38,470 I don't understand how that works. 722 00:47:38,470 --> 00:47:40,920 Why do you think you are better than them, 723 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,860 because you were going through, 724 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,740 you were given, that's your circumstances 725 00:47:45,740 --> 00:47:47,190 that they haven't been given. 726 00:47:48,654 --> 00:47:50,332 You were dealt a better hand. 727 00:47:50,332 --> 00:47:51,760 (rapid drum beats music) 728 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,350 - [Reporter] Fighting in South Sudan 729 00:47:53,350 --> 00:47:55,110 has spread outside the capital Juba, 730 00:47:55,110 --> 00:47:57,670 after a reported coup attempt of the weekend. 731 00:47:57,670 --> 00:48:00,970 President Salva Kiir has accused his former vice president 732 00:48:00,970 --> 00:48:02,340 of orchestrating the fighting. 733 00:48:02,340 --> 00:48:05,930 - [Salva] I promise you today that justice will prevail. 734 00:48:07,550 --> 00:48:09,940 - [Reporter] A report released by the UN in early May, 735 00:48:09,940 --> 00:48:11,740 is the first in depth examination 736 00:48:11,740 --> 00:48:13,680 of the violent, ethnic civil strife 737 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,670 that is tearing apart South Sudan. 738 00:48:15,670 --> 00:48:17,700 It states that thousands have been killed, 739 00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:19,640 and more than one million South Sudanese 740 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:20,803 have been displaced. 741 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,440 6.9 million people in the region are facing 742 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,073 the threat of mass starvation. 743 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,150 - They were living at home, they were leading happy lives, 744 00:48:31,150 --> 00:48:32,533 and then wars happened. 745 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,460 They find themselves in areas that are like, 746 00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:41,313 in place where they, I even move or I die. 747 00:48:42,660 --> 00:48:45,000 That was like the only option for them, 748 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,510 we need to think about it that way. 749 00:48:46,510 --> 00:48:48,760 If you were in their position what would you do? 750 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,750 Will you stay in your place, 751 00:48:50,750 --> 00:48:53,170 or will you try to save your family and your kids, 752 00:48:53,170 --> 00:48:55,183 and try to lead a better life? 753 00:48:56,192 --> 00:49:01,192 (upbeat percussion and syncopated strings music) 754 00:49:05,446 --> 00:49:08,363 (children playing) 755 00:49:20,910 --> 00:49:23,050 So the Sudanese community unfortunately, 756 00:49:23,050 --> 00:49:26,073 they're not considered as refugees in Jordan. 757 00:49:26,953 --> 00:49:28,980 And I say unfortunately, because this means that they 758 00:49:28,980 --> 00:49:32,960 don't get any support from international NGOs, 759 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,087 like the UN or the UNHCR, they don't get 760 00:49:36,087 --> 00:49:37,223 any support from them. 761 00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:39,870 'Cause they don't have refugee status. 762 00:49:39,870 --> 00:49:41,070 But this also means that 763 00:49:42,180 --> 00:49:43,630 they don't have refugee status 764 00:49:43,630 --> 00:49:46,292 and they don't have citizenship status. 765 00:49:46,292 --> 00:49:48,680 They're kind of stuck in this in between of 766 00:49:50,690 --> 00:49:52,470 we're not in Sudan, 767 00:49:52,470 --> 00:49:55,460 we're not refugees here, so we don't get any support. 768 00:49:55,460 --> 00:49:57,880 We're not citizens here, so we don't get to work, 769 00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:58,893 or go to schools. 770 00:50:00,004 --> 00:50:03,190 The story is that there was a big number 771 00:50:03,190 --> 00:50:04,823 of Sudanese refugees in Jordan. 772 00:50:07,340 --> 00:50:10,270 And I think in 2014 they were protesting 773 00:50:10,270 --> 00:50:12,623 the way they were being treated by the government. 774 00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:16,600 - The deportations followed months of protests 775 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:21,290 by some of the 3,500 Sudanese refugees in Jordan. 776 00:50:21,290 --> 00:50:25,780 They set up a protest camp outside the UN Refugee Agency, 777 00:50:25,780 --> 00:50:29,153 to demand more aid, and resettlement to other countries. 778 00:50:30,110 --> 00:50:32,530 The refugees say Jordanian security forces 779 00:50:32,530 --> 00:50:34,660 put them on buses, telling them they were 780 00:50:34,660 --> 00:50:36,300 going to be resettled. 781 00:50:36,300 --> 00:50:39,210 Instead, they took them to the airport. 782 00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:42,870 - And os the government was like, okay you don't like it, 783 00:50:42,870 --> 00:50:44,010 go back to Sudan. 784 00:50:44,010 --> 00:50:45,090 And this is what they did, actually. 785 00:50:45,090 --> 00:50:47,720 They got all the Sudanese refugees together, 786 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:49,701 shipped them up and then, you know, 787 00:50:49,701 --> 00:50:52,740 got them to the airport and shipped them back to Sudan. 788 00:50:52,740 --> 00:50:54,433 Which is very shameful for me. 789 00:50:55,690 --> 00:50:57,340 It's a very shameful act, really. 790 00:50:59,848 --> 00:51:03,733 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 791 00:51:03,733 --> 00:51:05,715 (ethereal music) 792 00:51:05,715 --> 00:51:08,203 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 793 00:51:08,203 --> 00:51:10,953 (ethereal music) 794 00:51:16,140 --> 00:51:20,057 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 795 00:51:23,282 --> 00:51:26,558 (ethereal music) 796 00:51:26,558 --> 00:51:30,475 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 797 00:51:34,497 --> 00:51:39,330 (flowing ethereal acoustic strings music) 798 00:51:45,672 --> 00:51:49,589 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 799 00:52:05,890 --> 00:52:10,640 (ethereal and low flowing strings music) 800 00:52:16,065 --> 00:52:19,982 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 801 00:52:39,950 --> 00:52:40,943 - Resistance. 802 00:52:42,312 --> 00:52:47,145 (flowing ethereal acoustic strings music) 803 00:52:55,097 --> 00:52:59,014 (Ehab speaks foreign language) 804 00:53:06,224 --> 00:53:11,224 (Ehab's mother speaking foreign language) 805 00:53:11,262 --> 00:53:16,095 (flowing ethereal acoustic strings music) 806 00:53:21,058 --> 00:53:25,891 (Ehab's mother speaking foreign language) 807 00:53:26,814 --> 00:53:30,680 (flowing ethereal acoustic strings music) 808 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,283 (wheels scraping) 809 00:53:33,283 --> 00:53:37,366 (Ehab speaking foreign language) 810 00:53:48,907 --> 00:53:53,740 (flowing ethereal acoustic strings music) 811 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,033 - I found out that we're really racist people. 812 00:54:11,419 --> 00:54:14,640 Which is quite a shock for me, because it's so embedded 813 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,580 in our culture, it's like interwoven with like 814 00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:21,180 the way we think that we don't even notice it, 815 00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:22,453 how racist we are. 816 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:26,143 I remember, 817 00:54:27,430 --> 00:54:29,560 when the Sudanis started coming to the park, 818 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,113 like a lot of kids didn't want to deal with the Sudanis, 819 00:54:32,113 --> 00:54:35,947 because oh they're black, I don't want to be with them. 820 00:54:37,740 --> 00:54:40,713 But like you can't take on kids for something like that. 821 00:54:41,900 --> 00:54:45,080 It's so embedded, this is the way they were being taught. 822 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:49,300 This is the way they were being raised. 823 00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:52,020 And like I said it's just, it's not hate, 824 00:54:52,020 --> 00:54:53,263 it's just ignorance. 825 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,733 We don't understand you, so we're afraid. 826 00:54:58,660 --> 00:55:01,420 Seeing the way that perspective flipped, 827 00:55:01,420 --> 00:55:06,289 is really something I'm proud of. 828 00:55:06,289 --> 00:55:11,039 (light flowing orchestral strings music) 829 00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:31,600 We have at times 830 00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:38,044 in their group to be community leaders. 831 00:55:38,044 --> 00:55:42,010 (light flowing music) 832 00:55:42,010 --> 00:55:44,360 I was having a discussion with a friend of mine 833 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:46,033 the other day. 834 00:55:46,870 --> 00:55:49,500 I think, I thought it was important to empower 835 00:55:49,500 --> 00:55:52,397 the people and she said, 'You know if you're empowering 836 00:55:52,397 --> 00:55:53,837 "the people it means that you're assuming 837 00:55:53,837 --> 00:55:54,917 "that they have no power. 838 00:55:54,917 --> 00:55:57,430 "When in reality they have all the power." 839 00:55:57,430 --> 00:55:58,910 And I thought that's interesting, 840 00:55:58,910 --> 00:56:00,410 that's an interesting perspective on things. 841 00:56:00,410 --> 00:56:03,870 And it's reminding the kids of the power they have, 842 00:56:03,870 --> 00:56:04,993 and giving them, 843 00:56:06,810 --> 00:56:08,963 you know it doesn't matter where you come from. 844 00:56:10,156 --> 00:56:13,156 (people chattering) 845 00:56:14,870 --> 00:56:16,993 - My name is Waa, I'm from Sudan. 846 00:56:21,024 --> 00:56:23,687 I want to stay in Jordan and go to USA 847 00:56:25,270 --> 00:56:28,880 and play skateboard over there. 848 00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,130 'Cause this skateboard I like so much 849 00:56:32,130 --> 00:56:34,838 from my heart. (laughs) 850 00:56:34,838 --> 00:56:39,505 (ethereal spiritual music and chanting) 851 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,863 (skateboarders chattering) 852 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,880 - [Narrator] Syria's war is a mess. 853 00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,910 The first shots in the war were fired in March 2011 854 00:56:52,910 --> 00:56:54,860 by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad 855 00:56:54,860 --> 00:56:57,183 against peaceful Arab Spring demonstrators. 856 00:56:57,183 --> 00:57:00,516 (rapid gunfire popping) 857 00:57:02,130 --> 00:57:04,400 In July, the protestors started shooting back. 858 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,530 And some Syrian troops even defect from 859 00:57:06,530 --> 00:57:08,000 the Syrian Army to join them. 860 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,420 They call themselves the Free Syrian Army, 861 00:57:10,420 --> 00:57:12,560 and the uprising becomes a civil war. 862 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,030 - It is in the national security interest 863 00:57:15,030 --> 00:57:18,630 of the United States to respond to the Assad regime's 864 00:57:18,630 --> 00:57:22,270 use of chemical weapons to a targeted military strike. 865 00:57:22,270 --> 00:57:23,630 - [Reporter] Russia proposed on Monday 866 00:57:23,630 --> 00:57:27,290 that Syria surrender control over its chemical weapons 867 00:57:27,290 --> 00:57:29,430 to the international community for its eventual 868 00:57:29,430 --> 00:57:32,039 dismantling to avoid a US military strike. 869 00:57:32,039 --> 00:57:37,039 (flowing acoustic guitar and mandolin music) 870 00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:17,994 (moves to flowing ethereal music) 871 00:58:19,910 --> 00:58:20,970 - The Gaza Camp is in Jerash, 872 00:58:20,970 --> 00:58:22,773 which is a city north of Amman. 873 00:58:23,930 --> 00:58:26,603 And they come to the park every Saturday. 874 00:58:28,370 --> 00:58:31,787 (flowing ethereal music) 875 00:58:34,450 --> 00:58:38,170 These refugee camps started as a temporary solution, 876 00:58:38,170 --> 00:58:40,457 and turned into permanent cities. 877 00:58:41,940 --> 00:58:45,357 (flowing ethereal music) 878 00:58:52,093 --> 00:58:56,676 (moves into flowing high violin music) 879 00:59:18,609 --> 00:59:21,480 - [Reporter] At least 25 Palestinians have died 880 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,210 and hundreds have been doing protests on the border 881 00:59:24,210 --> 00:59:26,240 between the Gaza Strip and Israel. 882 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,240 - [Reporter] Six Palestinians have been killed 883 00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:29,630 by Israeli forces. 884 00:59:29,630 --> 00:59:33,130 It happened during protests along Gaza's border. 885 00:59:33,130 --> 00:59:35,010 - [Reporter] 14,000 Palestinians gathered on 886 00:59:35,010 --> 00:59:36,810 the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, 887 00:59:36,810 --> 00:59:38,910 burning tires and throwing rocks, 888 00:59:38,910 --> 00:59:40,940 fire bombs and grenades at soldiers. 889 00:59:40,940 --> 00:59:42,596 That's according to the Israeli military. 890 00:59:42,596 --> 00:59:45,346 (people yelling) 891 00:59:49,485 --> 00:59:52,134 (horn blasting) 892 00:59:52,134 --> 00:59:54,730 (people yelling and horns blasting) 893 00:59:54,730 --> 00:59:57,458 - [Reporter] (drowned out by yelling) Has just been shot.) 894 00:59:57,458 --> 01:00:02,125 (acoustic bass violin syncopated music) 895 01:00:28,822 --> 01:00:33,155 (Mahmoud speaking foreign language) 896 01:01:20,124 --> 01:01:23,885 (Noora speaking foreign language) 897 01:01:23,885 --> 01:01:28,565 (Rana speaking foreign language) 898 01:01:28,565 --> 01:01:32,732 (Noora speaking foreign language) 899 01:01:35,070 --> 01:01:36,839 (Rana speaking foreign language) 900 01:01:36,839 --> 01:01:40,388 (Noora speaking foreign language) 901 01:01:40,388 --> 01:01:44,471 (Rana speaking foreign language) 902 01:01:46,634 --> 01:01:50,511 (Noora speaking foreign language) 903 01:01:50,511 --> 01:01:53,338 (Rana speaking foreign language) 904 01:01:53,338 --> 01:01:57,505 (Noora speaking foreign language) 905 01:01:58,611 --> 01:02:02,777 (flowing percussion and bass music) 906 01:02:02,777 --> 01:02:07,027 (Nagham speaking foreign language) 907 01:02:19,723 --> 01:02:24,723 (culturally rich percussion and acoustic cello music) 908 01:02:43,910 --> 01:02:48,077 (Ahmad speaking foreign language) 909 01:03:03,713 --> 01:03:08,713 (culturally rich percussion and acoustic strings music) 910 01:03:29,608 --> 01:03:33,691 (Sawsan speaks foreign language) 911 01:03:46,335 --> 01:03:51,335 (culturally rich percussion and acoustic strings music) 912 01:03:53,391 --> 01:03:57,474 (Sawsan speaks foreign language) 913 01:04:03,972 --> 01:04:08,972 (culturally rich percussion and acoustic strings music) 914 01:04:28,596 --> 01:04:33,179 (moves into flowing synthesizer music) 915 01:04:45,257 --> 01:04:48,050 - Donald J. Trump is calling for a total 916 01:04:48,050 --> 01:04:52,843 and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. 917 01:04:54,074 --> 01:04:58,410 (flowing synthesizer music) 918 01:04:58,410 --> 01:05:00,905 They want to change your religion, I don't think so, 919 01:05:00,905 --> 01:05:02,001 I don't think so. 920 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:03,310 (crowds murmuring) I don't think so, 921 01:05:03,310 --> 01:05:04,620 not gonna happen. 922 01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:06,240 It's gonna get worse and worse. 923 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,160 You're gonna have more World Trade Centers, 924 01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:11,060 it's gonna get worse and worse, folks. 925 01:05:11,986 --> 01:05:16,986 (flowing synthesizer and light piano music) 926 01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,150 - So the word Muslim in Islam, 927 01:05:25,150 --> 01:05:27,283 the word Muslim in the Arabic language, 928 01:05:28,220 --> 01:05:32,320 the actual word it means that you submit yourself to God. 929 01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,340 And by submitting yourself to God, 930 01:05:35,340 --> 01:05:40,340 you agree to be peaceful to all his creation, and be, 931 01:05:42,790 --> 01:05:44,320 to be one, actually. 932 01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:48,270 In Islam it says that the reason we are here 933 01:05:48,270 --> 01:05:50,790 is to build the earth and to make it 934 01:05:51,716 --> 01:05:55,710 a habitable place for creation. 935 01:05:55,710 --> 01:05:58,410 For animals, for plants, like... 936 01:06:02,030 --> 01:06:06,393 I'm a very spiritual person, I'm a Muslim as well. 937 01:06:07,730 --> 01:06:11,790 I think Islam is a very interesting religion. 938 01:06:11,790 --> 01:06:13,940 And the Quran is a really interesting book. 939 01:06:15,657 --> 01:06:17,400 And of course you have like crazy people. 940 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,090 There's crazy Americans, there's crazy Chinese, 941 01:06:20,090 --> 01:06:22,953 there's crazy Arabs, there's crazy Russians. 942 01:06:24,299 --> 01:06:26,199 There's all sorts of crazy everywhere. 943 01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:31,330 But focusing on that 1% that is crazy, 944 01:06:31,330 --> 01:06:33,170 this is where the problem is being created. 945 01:06:33,170 --> 01:06:35,773 This is where generalization is being made. 946 01:06:38,650 --> 01:06:41,860 If you only think of people, of Arabs, for example, 947 01:06:41,860 --> 01:06:44,130 or Muslims, and the only images that come to mind 948 01:06:44,130 --> 01:06:46,020 is protest and 949 01:06:47,620 --> 01:06:50,230 that image is in the media, 950 01:06:50,230 --> 01:06:53,248 of course this is what you're gonna think about. 951 01:06:53,248 --> 01:06:55,243 I do blame the Americans for their, 952 01:06:57,690 --> 01:07:02,033 it's not hate, it is ignorance that developed into hate. 953 01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,680 But at the end of the day it's really ignorance. 954 01:07:07,700 --> 01:07:10,720 You don't know something and then you assume that 955 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,830 what you see is the truth, then you have a problem. 956 01:07:14,830 --> 01:07:17,070 If you don't research, if you don't take the time 957 01:07:17,070 --> 01:07:19,840 to get to know the different side of things, 958 01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:21,190 then you have a problem. 959 01:07:21,190 --> 01:07:26,190 And I think this is the problem with Americans is that, 960 01:07:27,630 --> 01:07:31,940 they have created this lifestyle where you go to work 961 01:07:31,940 --> 01:07:33,080 and you chase the money, 962 01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:37,400 and you chase the certain lifestyle the American dream, 963 01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,386 and then you don't have time for anything else. 964 01:07:40,386 --> 01:07:44,136 (ethereal and flowing music) 965 01:07:53,410 --> 01:07:56,440 I think that skateboarding is creating this understanding 966 01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,937 of humanity really, I don't know, maybe. 967 01:08:05,972 --> 01:08:10,722 (man chanting prayers over sound system) 968 01:08:54,657 --> 01:08:55,490 (upbeat digital beat music) 969 01:08:55,490 --> 01:08:57,235 ♪ Shway, shway, shway ♪ 970 01:08:57,235 --> 01:08:58,837 ♪ Got no shway ♪ 971 01:08:58,837 --> 01:09:00,681 ♪ (Laughs) ♪ 972 01:09:00,681 --> 01:09:01,975 ♪ Got no shway ♪ 973 01:09:01,975 --> 01:09:05,642 (upbeat digital beat music) 974 01:09:06,651 --> 01:09:11,651 (moves in heavy bass and high toned digital beats music) 975 01:09:54,832 --> 01:09:57,418 ♪ We're legitimate hypocrites under hippocratic oath ♪ 976 01:09:57,418 --> 01:10:00,453 ♪ Using melodies, medicines up in the epiphanies, yo ♪ 977 01:10:00,453 --> 01:10:03,655 ♪ Crack the shell back whoever converse with the ghost ♪ 978 01:10:03,655 --> 01:10:04,963 ♪ There's no telling whatever it is ♪ 979 01:10:04,963 --> 01:10:06,382 ♪ But I know what I know ♪ 980 01:10:06,382 --> 01:10:08,116 ♪ That every so-so intelligence sows ♪ 981 01:10:08,116 --> 01:10:10,385 ♪ The seed that influences our navigation ♪ 982 01:10:10,385 --> 01:10:12,625 ♪ No systems to interpret the nuances ♪ 983 01:10:12,625 --> 01:10:15,619 ♪ An inclination transcending even causes to human ♪ 984 01:10:15,619 --> 01:10:17,022 ♪ It's like I'll beat myself up ♪ 985 01:10:17,022 --> 01:10:19,140 ♪ If I leave you in bruises ♪ 986 01:10:19,140 --> 01:10:24,057 (upbeat heavy bass and digital beats music 987 01:10:30,734 --> 01:10:33,758 ♪ When I look in the mirror all I see is your face ♪ 988 01:10:33,758 --> 01:10:36,714 ♪ When I look in the mirror all I see is your face ♪ 989 01:10:36,714 --> 01:10:39,672 ♪ When I look in the mirror all I see is your face ♪ 990 01:10:39,672 --> 01:10:42,937 ♪ When I look in the mirror all I see is your face ♪ 991 01:10:42,937 --> 01:10:47,937 (upbeat heave bass and digital beats music) 992 01:11:22,714 --> 01:11:27,714 (easy going cultural chants, acoustic and digital music)