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215: Soaking Up the Sponge
Stories of Our City
English - November 17, 2021 11:00 - 1 minute - 147 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts documentary city culture humaninterest journalism stories travel truestory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Many across the Arab world use the fully ripened fruit of the luffa genus of vegetables, of the cucumber family, as a soap sponge. But more than a decade ago, retired copywriter and editor Ibrahim Alfar, of Amman, Jordan, began exploring the application of luffa in other ways.