Illustration by Edmond Baudoin, comic book author and winner of the Fauve d'Or at the Angoulême Festival in 1992. Latest publication: "Syria, Stones and Life" (Gallimard BD, 2025).
The article below is part of L’Orient Today’s selection of pieces translated from L’Orient-Le Jour’s special L’Orient des Écrivains (Writers’ edition) on Oct. 23, 2025 edition, produced for the ‘Beyrouth Livres’ Festival (annual book fair), in which the newsroom was opened to a group of writers, in partnership with the Institut français du Liban.I am part of that species of humans who are born upside down, roots in the sky and nose in the ground, searching for a familiar scent among the ants. Sometimes I wonder who I am. Like me, there are more and more. Migrants, refugees, stateless people, expatriates, wanderers, nomads carrying two, three ID cards and as many languages in their pockets.I write from the diaspora; we are millions of Palestinians, heirs to suffering and struggle, scattered across the world. I write as thousands of...
The article below is part of L’Orient Today’s selection of pieces translated from L’Orient-Le Jour’s special L’Orient des Écrivains (Writers’ edition) on Oct. 23, 2025 edition, produced for the ‘Beyrouth Livres’ Festival (annual book fair), in which the newsroom was opened to a group of writers, in partnership with the Institut français du Liban.I am part of that species of humans who are born upside down, roots in the sky and nose in the ground, searching for a familiar scent among the ants. Sometimes I wonder who I am. Like me, there are more and more. Migrants, refugees, stateless people, expatriates, wanderers, nomads carrying two, three ID cards and as many languages in their pockets.I write from the diaspora; we are millions of Palestinians, heirs to suffering and struggle, scattered across the world. I write as...