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Author(s) -
Dahlia Wasfi
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.183
Subject(s) - homeland , ancient history , genealogy , history , art history , art , media studies , sociology , political science , law , politics
“Dahlia, come here,” my father called.I was upstairs in my parents’ house, during the winter break of my sophomore year at Swarthmore College. On the East Coast it was 5 p.m., Jan. 16, 1991. In Iraq – my father’s birthplace and homeland of my paternal family – it was 1 a.m., Jan. 17. I went to the balcony overlooking the family room.