Across Borders
Everyone Has a Second Kitchen Now
Syrian households abroad describe cooking in two registers, on different days, for different people — and being fluent in neither the way they were in one.
3 December 2020
Diaspora
Syrians elsewhere, and the country they carry with them.
Across Borders
The Arabic Children Speak to Their Grandmothers
It is not the Arabic of the classroom and not quite the Arabic of the house. Families abroad are watching a register form in real time.
19 November 2020
Damascus, Syria
August Is a Different City
For one month a year the visitors outnumber the arrangements made for them, and the people who live here spend it being visited.
5 November 2020