#COFFEE; A LOVE STORY / by ELIF SHAFAK

SAY YOUR WORD / ELIF SHAFAK
SAY YOUR WORD / ELIF SHAFAK
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Published 2021-12-11
In this episode, Elif Shafak is focusing on the word #COFFEE: Are you also a 'But first, coffee' person?

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Welcome to our YouTube channel, solely dedicated to words.

Say Your Word is a digital platform by the acclaimed novelist, storyteller and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak.
A platform for words and anyone who cares about them.

Language is the key to understanding and unlocking our world.
It is also the key to the human heart.

Words are often said to have power.
What is not said that often is that they can hurt and even spread hatred and hostility, just like they can heal and bring about love, empathy and wisdom.
They can divide, distance and "dehumanise", just like they can connect and “rehumanise" those who have been dehumanised.

East and West, North and South, regardless of race, sex, gender, colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other category, we are all made of stories.
Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart.

Today's word is COFFEE.

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All Comments (15)
  • @duygu1388
    siz harika bir insansınız Elif Hanım. çok sevgiler🌹🌹🌹
  • @victoria-th
    "a single cup of coffee is remembered for 40 years" 😍 I love that! This was such a fun, interesting, brilliant episode of SyW, thank you. I'll raise my mug to you & the social life of coffee, of course ☕☕📚📚
  • @LondonFriendsWalks
    As an elderly Irishman I was raised on tea. I then joined the army and it was more tea, I think the British would have lost the war if they couldn’t have a brew before and after battle. And then I met my beloved, a Moroccan woman she introduced me to coffee. She was the youngest in her family and was deaf. She told me when all her siblings left the house she sit with her Mum in the morning drink coffee and talk, she told me this so many times I realise those coffee mornings were incredibly precious to her. In London she nagged me to buy a coffee making machine I resisted because her coffee made in her battered coffeee pot was perfect. She got breast cancer 10 years ago and once she recovered she insisted we bought a home near her Mum in Morocco. Last Summer whilst here her passport only had 2 months left on it, so she couldn’t drive back with me through Spain, she had to wait with Mum in her home and she spent those mornings alone chatting with her Mum over coffee. Her cancer returned and whisked her away in February. I’m typing this on our patio in Morocco with my muesli and a cup of coffee and tears streaming down my face. Your talk about coffee has set me off, and don’t get me started on Kanza’s Mum she is devastated, Kanza came to her in a dream and kissed her on her forehead. She wasn’t saying goodbye she was saying see you later. I hope there is coffee in heaven, cos there is heaven in coffee.
  • @ZorbaPress
    Thank you very much, Ms. Shafak -- this is so interesting and informative. ... This series of videos brings to mind Gibran's "The Prophet": ... "Now therefore disclose us to ourselves, and tell us all that has been shown you of that which is between birth and death." ... And the book's chapters which begin: "Then said Almitra, Speak to us of [Love] ... ". If I could suggest a topic for a future video, it would be: Speak to us of Courage and Resilience.
  • @deepblue188
    "A single cup of coffee is remembered for forty years". I like this Turkish proverb so much! I am going to look for the translation in Turkish. I am learning Turkish, so I am eager to find out how this proverb sounds in Turkish. I am really sorry for those people condemned to death by Murad IV.
  • @occasionaladventurer2730
    As a coffee lover , I now got a whole new reason to drink coffee - a tribute to the socially active critical thinkers that lost their lives - I raise my mug to You!
  • @hajranaeem7804
    Surely a cup of coffee and smell of coffee create a aromatic ambience which i remember since my childhood days.it's ambiance is v relaxing and calming.