I write to assure second-generation migrants that while there is truly no place like home, we will always carry our homeland within us wherever we go.
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After much media scrutiny and police intervention, Palestine Action Group’s weekly Sunday protest went ahead, marking one year of Israel’s genocide on Palestine.
The rally commemorating one year of genocide will go ahead in Hyde Park on Sunday, while a vigil will occur on Monday.
Marking 51 weeks since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began, thousands gathered in Town Hall on Sunday, September 29, to call for an end to the slaughter in Palestine and Lebanon.
On Tuesday night, University management had sent a letter to the protest organisers warning that the “posters may indicate an intention for Students Against War to conduct a demonstration on University lands, contrary to the Campus Access Policy”.
Two days ago I realised my mum traded emotional fulfilment for stability. She sacrificed the closeness she once shared with her family in favour of securing a future for her children. Risk reaps reward and regret, but ultimately it’s about sacrifice — and with sacrifice comes the constant balancing of both.
When the wounds seem irreparable, the food of my family has always been a generational plaster.
How do you grieve for your country when you’re 14,000 kilometres away?
Watching the rise and fall of the Lebanese revolution
Nabila Chemaissem reflects on the hidden beauty of the ‘Paris of the Middle East’
