جزء من نص طويل يعمل عليه الكاتب دلير يوسف عن عودته إلى دمشق في بدايات العام ٢٠٢٥، بعد أقل من شهر على سقوط نظام بشار الأسد، يحكي فيه عن العودة إلى بيت طفولته، والمشي في شوارع المدينة والجلوس في المقاهي والبارات. كذلك يحكي عن الطعام وعن التلوث في المدينة وعن الناس وطباعهم وعاداتهم، وعن لقاء الأصدقاء القدامىوعن الزمن الضائع والغربة، ومشاعره نحو سوريا الجديدة.
In the 50th issue of The Markaz Review, diverse writers explore the return home in creative nonfiction, fiction excerpts and prose poems.
After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement, and belonging.
The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents “Ode to the South,” a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid Baalbaki, 1940-2013.
Envisioning innovative new futures that challenge conventional thinking and inspire transformative possibilities.
Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture that has normalized disinformation.
Sudanese artists in exile are keeping their identity and heritage alive while they await the chance to return home.
Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than real.
Arabic jazz challenges stereotypes amid rising xenophobia in the West and colonial violence in the Arab world.
My Tripoli breathes gunpowder, // … the city where mosques are bombed and streets get emptied. // … How can my Lebanon be their Lebanon?
Batoul Ahmad, during a ten-year absence from Damascus, reconstructs her sense of home through memory and self-discovery in Australia.
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see his father one last time.
