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5 March, 2023 • Leila Aboulela

Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising in Tahrir Square.

5 March, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa tells the story of refugees seeking asylum in Britain who brave the dangerous waters of the English Channel.

5 March, 2023 • MK Harb

MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in adolescence.

5 March, 2023 • Samir El-Youssef

Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef, born in a refugee camp, tells the story of his family's uprooting from Lebanon.

Home is increasingly an elusive quality in an era of war, climate disaster, economic collapse and family misfortune.

Filmmaker and educator Saeed Taji Farouky argues that the Palestine of memories is often the only Palestine we have.

An Athens native returns to Greece after a 20-year sojourn across the Mediterranean and Middle East, covering turmoil and displacement.

5 March, 2023 • Lushik Lotus Lee

A young Egyptian woman comes of age at the dawn of the Arab uprising in Cairo, but ultimately finds home in exile.

These days, for Iranian photographer Jassem Ghazbanpour, who began shooting the Iran-Iraq war at age 16, home is where he points his camera.

5 March, 2023 • Yesmine Abida

Yesmine Abida, a Tunisian in the diaspora, returns home to document the last vestiges of Nabeul's once-thriving Jewish community.

5 March, 2023 • Aomar Boum

Aomar Boum and his daughter travel home to his village in the south of Morocco to visit with his brother Mohammed and their extended family.

5 March, 2023 • Sheana Ochoa

Sheana Ochoa reviews the new book from Gabor Maté which suggests that much of what today has become normal is potentially traumatic.

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