BOOK

The home I worked to make : voices from the new Syrian diaspora

Pearlman, Wendy, author

2024

Overview

\"War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria's refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home? With gripping immediacy, Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home. Across this tapestry of voices, a new understanding emerges: home, for those without the privilege of taking it for granted, is both struggle and achievement. Recasting \"refugee crises\" as acts of diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Make challenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Subject: Refugees / Refugees Syria Interviews. / Contestation Syrie Histoire 21e siècle. / Réfugiés Syrie Entretiens. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs. / HISTORY Middle East. / HISTORY Modern 21st Century. / Refugees Interviews. / Syria History Civil War, 2011- Personal narratives. / Syria History Civil War, 2011- / Syria History 20th century. / Syria History 21st century. / Syrie Histoire 2011- (Guerre civile) Récits personnels. / Syria / Syria History.
• ISBN: 1324092238, 9781324092230

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS98.6 .P43 2024	1	BOOK	GENERAL