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Going home
Amelia Newcomb
What does home mean to you? Taylor Luck’s story today shows how it looks to Syrians finally able to return to their country. Immediately after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, Samer Jalbout rushed to the Yarmouk refugee camp, where he was born. It is not the place he remembers – and yet, it is. He and his brother feel at ease as they shovel rubble in a bid to restore their family compound. Taylor notes that the camp is central to Syrian Palestinians’ sense of belonging – their last physical tie to a Palestine they have never seen.
