Ramadan is almost over Villa Nadia (NPO2) experienced his last broadcast on Wednesday. During the fast month, Nadia Moussaid received guests from the cultural world in a converted farm, while chef Yasmine Ballachi prepared an iftar meal before they prepared them together after sunset.
Moussaid spoke with the guests on political topics such as the Genocide in Gaza, being refugees, PVV intimidation, but in the final episode it was about the importance of art in the life of three performing artists. Here too, the bleak political climate was never far away. Actor Sabri Saad El Hamus told how the Netherlands has changed since he came from Egypt to Amsterdam in 1978: “The difference: doors open and doors closed. The embrace of that time, being welcome no longer exists”. The actor danced with the others the Zikr-a repetitive trance ritual of the Sufis that works for him as a meditation.
Comedian Shariff Nasr said that on stage he is always starting to say that he is half Palestinian, but that this has not been working properly since the Hamas attack on Israel from 2023: “Since October 7, the whole atmosphere has fallen away”. With a joke he then tries to bring it back: “Okay, thank you. We always get this silence at the UN”. Singer Meral Polat sang an impressive song – Music connects her with her Alevi Kurdish roots and with her deceased father.
Last year this program was called Villa Ramadan And it was presented by Karim Amghar. His Ramadan programs had a religious perspective. Nadia Moussaid now let it go. Villa Nadia Although dealt with topics that live among Muslims, had no Islamic impact. That’s nice for me – as an unbeliever I get somewhat woe of happy godliness on TV, so I’d rather look at Nadia Moussaid. But it is a pity for the Muslim viewers who are already so scanty by the public broadcaster.
The EO program This is the issue (Tuesday, NPO2) was concerned with ‘gender supply’. I did not know that it existed – at least, that it was a serious problem – but new parents are sometimes disappointed that they get a boy’s baby while they want a girl’s baby, or vice versa. Mother Anne even experiences mourning because she had four sons and no daughter. She was unrecognizable in the picture, but I suspect that her four sons, if they happened to watch TV on Tuesday, did realize whose blonde was in the back of the head.
My first thought was: don’t nag, be happy that you get a healthy, living child. That is exactly where the EO wanted me. Because they think you should leave it all to the good God. This is also apparent from the corresponding podcast King That shame speaks of people who commit abortion because the gender of the embryo is not satisfactory. Before you know it, the broadcaster will talk to the anti-abortion camp.
My second thought was: this is not really a matter because you can’t do anything about it. Again wrong. Presenter Rachel Rosier visited entrepreneur Bert van Parts who offers gender selection via IVF. From various embryos, the parents choose one with the desired gender. Lets of parts do that in hospitals in Turkish Cyprus, because in the Netherlands this is only allowed if there is a medical reason for it. Rosier felt firmly to the test of parts.
That critically interrogated was omitted when she was in the kitchen at Leonie van Noort van Gender balance. It has developed a diet with which the pregnant woman can influence the gender of the baby. If you want a boy, you have to eat a carrot. And lots of meat. No, this was not an early April-April grit. That woman and her diet really exist. Costs 2,500 euros. Warranty to the door.