You ask: What is the meaning of “refugee”?They will say: One who is uprooted from his ho
You ask: What is the meaning of “refugee”?
They will say: One who is uprooted from his homeland.
You ask: What is the meaning of “homeland”?
They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky.
You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?
—Mahmoud Darwish. “In the Presence of Absence.”
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