"I do not know how he will explain that one.
The bulk of his gastronomic know-how, he explained, was imparted by his mother, who organizes an annual festival of couscous in southeastern Morocco, near the small mountain village where Mr. Beqqi and his nine siblings grew up.
It took him a long time to say he didn't know how to explain it, that if he knew how to explain it she would be walking toward them now, not Hannah.
"We don't know how to explain it," he said.
He says that managing Oh No They Didn't now consists of about 50percentt of his duties, but remains cagey about his work with the community for the company: "I don't know how to explain it," he said.
Sometimes he does not know how to explain the violence to them, he said.
I asked him if he had a chance to speak with his wife, and he said he was afraid because he didn't know how to explain what was happening to him.
"But I didn't know how to explain what that was". He knew that he would have to tell his friends why they could play only in his bedroom — and only with the door locked.
"I don't know how to explain it exactly," he said, pointing at his head.
"I don't know how to explain this moment," he said.
"I don't think either of us know how to explain it really," he said.
