And Water is Water...Thinking of Water in Exile
13 November 2024
"I would always ask any friend coming from Damascus to Beirut to bring me a bottle of Fijeh Spring water. I would drink the water in Beirut and feel the...
Russian anti-war activists forced into exile
03 June 2023
The decision of civil society activists in Russia to stand against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has cost some of them a life into exile or detention in their home country....
The French version of me
14 April 2022
I walk through the city with a surprising sense of belonging, and I see copies of my novel in the storefronts. My eyes catch the title, the “New Release,” my...
In drawings: Exile and alienation in Germany
19 October 2021
"This type of intimacy and comfort with which we used to meet friends has been lost by Syrians in exile, replaced with a pathological nostalgia. Now we don't know what...
Rateb Shabo: ‘Politics disappears amid violence’
17 September 2021
“Syria has been exiled. All Syrians have become strangers to their homeland. Or, perhaps, exile itself has become their homeland.”
Questioning ‘exile’
23 July 2021
In my mind and memories, exile was a remote and strange place. It was where the persecuted were forced to seek safety from arrest or death, where they were embattled...
