The Shape of Home

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>What exactly does home mean when you've moved from one country to another fled everything you once knew or witnessed the destruction of the place you loved? </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Shape of Home</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> explores themes of place motherhood community and identity through the stories and poetry of seven Middle Eastern and North African women.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The tales within this book cross regions and countries and span time and space but they seek community-whether through found family in a new place lifelong neighbors pulling together despite adversity or the resolve to build something new. These are stories that walk the lines of duality between connection and isolation tradition and innovation acceptance and rejection and in the end they teach us that some of the most rewarding choices are not either or but both. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The true shape of home is what you make it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Contains stores and poetry by: Maryam Ghatee Gizem Zencirci Jowan Nabha </span>Koloud Fawzi Omar Abdul Aziz Tarapolsi Malack Jallad Nayiri Baboudjian Bouchakjian and Alizeh Farhad.</p><p><br></p>