Today is Souha Bechara's birthday. Lebanese resistance activist, political prisoner, and writer. She spent 10 years in a Zi*n!st prison in Southern Lebanon. Here are some select clips from the film 'Souha: Surviving Hell' (2001):
🧵 This is Souha, soon after her release, describing in detail her operation to assassinate the collaborator Antoine Lahad.

I've been searching for a word that describes my current experience. An arab who has left his home (unwillingly) and now finds himself alienated in Europe. I can't find a single word in English that covers all these layers at once, but I've realized there is one in Arabic: غربة. I've been thinking a lot about this word. My current experience is not comparable to exile or refuge, but also more severe and dislocating than is implied with the term emigre. غربة feels situated between these two poles.