Home is a House in Oman
The daughter of an Indian expatriate family in Oman discovers that the only home she's ever yearned for was the place always meant to be impermanent.
HOME is dedicated to explorations of the meaning of home (and the lack thereof) in new essays, fiction and multimedia. For those who have had to leave their city, their country, there is a sense of ”permanent temporariness,” where inevitable thoughts of returning to one’s birthplace or country are thwarted by political realities on the ground (war, climate disaster, economic collapse). Then there are those who have never left, and yet still feel uncertain about belonging, and yearn for rootedness in what is an elusive search for self.
The daughter of an Indian expatriate family in Oman discovers that the only home she's ever yearned for was the place always meant to be impermanent.
Mischa Geracoulis reviews the new book from Dina Nayeri on refugees and asylum seekers who must be believed to get through the system.
Anam Raheem spent five years working in Gaza and the West Bank, and felt herself at home among the Palestinians who befriended her.