MEETING A LOCAL IN BAHRAIN (Loay Al-Shareef)

louie is coming to pick me up right now i've been speaking to him for [Music] six or seven months over the phone but we've never met so it's very exciting get to meet a friend okay so louie is waiting outside and uh let's go meet him [Music] wrong floor next one i see him i see him he doesn't see me but i see him this way okay there he is okay so we're about to enter louie's home [Music] hello no pets so louis got all dressed up for the interview let's have a look there we go teaching okay so you hold the two sides like this okay and put one like this and one like this and that's it you already and the rest you can do it here or you can put it here i've seen people put it on top like a cobra yeah there's the cobra different styles and then there's um different styles but we're good okay great right that's the way you would say it okay we're good thank you yes welcome to my home my dear friend shlomi thank you i love being here you are more than welcome let me take you for a very aggressive very small house for two people so uh these are the uh uh uh the minerals that i've taken throughout the years in languages and intolerance and doing all the stuff this is my tv i watch movies here lots of movies i love movies and the menorah because i really love my beloved yahudah makabi the great jewish leader who fought against antiochus and uh the jew the greek jews and then there is the symbol for islam it's islam judaism and christianity and what else so here you have the uh egyptians like uh yeah these are the egyptians uh uh you have ramesses the third you have uh university i'm so loyal to my child to my childhood as you can see this is the anime that i love most uh from uh death note this is the batman series the delorean i have r2d2 grandizer lion king and stuff like that and by the way this is a very special rock from mount uh mountain of lowe's in saudi arabia where they say that some people say that where anyway it's a very special mountain in saudi arabia and this is from new zealand so and this is from yamaha okay and this is where i write my goals and i write my plans and everything so can you explain what what you have here and something written in hebrew something very ah hebrew it's like these are the two sets that i need to finish by 2020. two sets that i need to finish so i can uh get uh to hebrew academic method in charlotte hashem and this is like uh what i keep a few things here and there my childhood as well you know wedivas and stuff this is my refrigerator can you read what's written here in hebrew okay this is my kitchen it's a bit lousy and this is the real thing now this is my library welcome to my library so as you see i have an office of course where i work for my academy in manama but this is my home office you can see it's very lousy so books and uh office on the same spot so for books i um categorize them by uh interest so this is islam is that the mecca clock tower up there yeah that's the mecca clock tower okay this is the uh right and these are one of the masjids or mosques in the city of the prophet thanks for salaam vs the house of the two directions that's literally what it means anyway so these are books and these are books for history so i love history as well you see there are mixed history arabic english and stuff like that and this is the general and also we have movies here my latest movies and some action figures and stuff and here here's the real thing here is the jewish i call it the uh the uh the corner of israel this is the israeli corner you see books for learning hebrew and stuff like that so this is this is the hebrew library of bahrain yeah maybe you never know but uh yeah i would call it my hebrew library in bahrain so uh hebrew learning books and hebrew and books about the jews as well some of them in english some the majority in arabic and some of them in hebrew as well so one of the interesting books that i want you to know okay the torah has like five six books five this is the uh uh the hebrew bible you read this yes and this is the torah interpreted by rabbi [Music] he is a very good he's the first one who translated torah to arabic this is exodus in hebrew it's shmot right that's right right exodus genesis genesis exodus leviticus deuteronomy and numbers or numbers and deuteronomy it's biblical hebrew so instead of saying ani i say instead of saying eretz you say ars see so this is the biblical hebrew yeah and my favorite of all time rabbi moshe in my moon so this is the book definitely it's in hebrew uh uh uh um i don't know it's called and also the the other book for rambam is uh where is it the guide for the perplexed it's a very nice book and uh you see other books in hebrew uh like yusifus the history of the antiquities of the jews well i see some other interesting books down here that i didn't notice before yeah like this one the guide to serving god yeah the guide to serving god i bought this from brooklyn eichler's right yeah turn around let's see if they see the sticker in the back oh it's not on this but this one had it purity of speech ah yeah the purity of speech yeah this one is from the uh brooklyn uh brooklyn uh library yeah and it's uh that is i mean let's see the front cover of the book it's right who would believe it in bahrain what a world we live in today so this is the syriac the hebrew the islam and the history this is my area of interest and i'm an engineer just use engineer informatique so this is my software engineering branch this is the software engineering so i have lots of books here in engineering and in self-development and yeah so uh i'm gonna i'm gonna soon teach basic software engineering and basic algorithms and some computer science fundament uh some computer science uh fundamentals insha allah very soon in my academy but you know i just need more than 24 hours a day i hope that god help me in trouble so this is and this is like because i i um uh i film so this is like my film and my equipment for filming audio stuff like that so many things here so this is my small library and here where the magic happens here right here when i work i do all the things here it's a bit lousy i know but you know i'm trying to organize it every now and then you don't want to see how this looked like seven months ago it was disastrous but this is my small home i hope you like it thank you for the tour and baya so this is from me thank you so much open it up and see hey may this place be a sanctuary for peace amen thank you so much my dear friend my pleasure wow [Music] look who it this is a good spot okay so we're gonna do a little photo shoot right now almost sunset yeah it's a nice time actually the weather is gorgeous yeah by the way i fell in love with your country today thank you so much i just walked around this so people are so friendly people wanted selfies yeah everyone's just welcoming me it was it was such a good time man nice nice nice night okay let's ask this gentleman if we can have a selfie this spot okay i think so i think he can you think you think he's going to help us so we are at the avenue avenues mall one one branch the main branch is in kuwait and this is the second branch okay well it is very beautiful and big which one five got oh that's an american chain yeah very successful okay so really pretty place actually really nice mall filled with saudis masha allah the food smells good but i can't have any which is always a challenge very soon i'm looking forward to a good kosher burger place somewhere in this mall it would be a wonderful thing and uh i believe it can happen in the next five years huh that would be fun [Music] check out the mannequins in bahrain oh yeah one day i'm gonna come here next time i come i'm gonna get a full outfit head to toe good idea okay so we just got to the airport and there are cops police everywhere looks like there's more police than people they're looking for you oh boy oh yeah okay so i listed your name in the uh awaited list okay so that you have to prepare yourself for a very long interrogation okay well i hope they'll let me break my fast before before that happens okay so i thank you so much you are more than amazing amazing to be with you and um next time you come to us amen thank you so much you're welcome bye be well bye bye see you later okay so about to check in for my gulf air flights from bahrain to saudi arabia and check this out there's a water cooler with water never seen anything like this this is classic arab hospitality i've never gotten a free drink in an airport ever classic arab hospitality great job guys keep it up