Episode two of the seven-part NRC podcast This is our country. Do you want to listen more? Then look for this is our country in your podcast app and immediately listen further.
The 24-year-old Kholoud Jarada works as a doctor in the Gaza Strip. Since October 7, 2023, she is constantly looking for a new place to live. Yet she managed to finish her studies. But there is no time to mourn from friends, family and colleagues she has lost. Vulnerability is a luxury that Gazans cannot afford. How does she keep hope?
- Presentation:
- Ruben Pest & Derk Walters
- Editors:
- Felicia Alberding & Esmee Dirks
- Music, assembly and mixage:
- Bas van Win & Jeroen Jaspers
- Final editing:
- Anna Korterink
- Chef Audior Editor:
- Rogier van ‘t Hek
- Promotion:
- Ruben Baudoin
- Illustration:
- Lynne Brouwer
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
- Thanks to:
- Rita Baroud, Mirjam van Zuidam & Danielle Pinedo

