The Pain of Leaving
It’s like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can’t believe it You were...
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Category: Essay
From Stateless to Citizen
What is it like to be without a country? To be born a stateless refugee? To have no citizenship, no passport, no place to belong?
Mamoun Abu Naser knows. He was born a Palestinian refugee in Syria, and has lived as a stateless person for his entire life.
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This Place, That Place and the Other
For migrants, answering the question about where we come from is never simple: we are the products of the different places in which we have lived and the people who have surrounded us.
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In Search of Home: Hiraeth Celebrates Two Years
A look back at how Hiraeth started and what’s in store for this year.
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In A Blink Of An Eye
Have you ever thought about a window when you thought of home? I don’t mean the metaphorical...
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The Blood of the Soul
I spent my morning at the Italian consulate today, submitting my application to become Italian....
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A Sail For Peace
“…It was our way to abolish government-made borders and show the world as one beautiful nation whose ruler was the sea, where nature’s laws are strict, yet simple, and the inhabitants are all equally unique.”
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The Good Old Language Struggle
Yesterday I was thinking of the downs of living “abroad”. I must say I very rarely put myself this...
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Walking into a Memory
One of the beautiful things about moving often is that you experience the “little...
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The Lily and the Rose: Living Between East and West
“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the...
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Home as Metaphor
I woke up this morning from a dream in which I’d just bought a new house. It was a big...
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The Roots of Dispersion
I often wonder how it feels to be tied to a place, to know that your history happened there, that...
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PODCAST
- Hiraeth Ep. 32- The Third Space 06/05/2019In this episode, Monica talks to artist Farnaz Gholami. Farnaz is originally from Iran, but has lived in Boston, South Africa and now London. Farnaz talks about how her experience of moving and living in different places has affected her work. She talks about what it means to to find home, neither here nor there, […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 31- Reckless in Saying Yes 11/02/2019Describing herself as a child of "leavers and movers", Alissa Herbaly Coons has spent her life finding home around the world. From age five until the 9th grade, she lived in what she describes as a "very American" suburban neighbourhood in Montana. In high school she suddenly landed in Hungary in the middle of a […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 30- Choosing to Walk Away 20/12/2018Donna Bardsley grew up in a big, warm Mormon family on the west coast of the United States. Even more than her nationality, she considered Mormonism her primary identifier, and couldn’t imagine how to leave, even as the belief system she grew up with felt increasingly irrelevant to her life. For more info visit: www.hiraethmagazine.com
- Hiraeth Ep. 29- Window To Another Reality 24/09/2018‘I like to think of my work as a window to another reality, perhaps escapist and enchanting, like an hotel room, which is a symbol of a different reality than our daily life; perhaps a dreamlike experience, a place which is a temporary home.’ Michal Raz was born in Jerusalem and in spite of growing […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 28- Coming of Age in Trump's America 16/07/2018I had the pleasure of talking to two very astute young ladies. My daughter Luna and her friend Okxana. Both are 19 years old and go to college in Los Angeles, California. Luna has grown up between Europe and California. She lives in LA with her mom during the school year and, with her brother, […]
