To Visit My Home, I Visit Its Borders

This project traces a journey along the borderlands of Syria—spaces suspended between presence and absence, where home is visible yet unreachable. Through photography, text, and personal testimony, I explore the emotional geography of displacement, where absence takes form and memory becomes landscape. These are places where history lingers and belonging grows fragile, shaped by invisible lines drawn by conflict and geopolitics.

The project is not a story of return, but of proximity. It is about standing at the threshold—witnessing without arrival. It is about the longing that endures across distance and time, and about stitching together fragments of identity from the edges of a land I can no longer touch, yet still carry within me.

Pulications :

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