- Maḥmūd Ḥassan al-Jāsim (1966-, Syria) – Nuzūḥ Maryam (‘Mariam’s journey’, 2015). Sārah, a Christian woman, tells the story of her displacement to her daughter Miryam, starting with her moving to the countryside between Aleppo and Raqqa to teach English, where she falls in love with and marries Miryam’s father, a Muslim farmer called Hāshim (reference). From there, they move to the city of Raqqa where she gives birth to Maryam. With the outbreak of the revolution in 2011, Sārah is forced move again, this time without Hāshim who has disappeared. She first goes to Beirut and then to Gaziantep, Turkey. She passes away in a refugee camp, leaving her diary as a novel for her daughter Miryam (also in L: Love, Lust, and Relationships: Inter- religious and ethnic (romantic) relationships: Between Muslims and Christians).
- Shatila Stories is a book written by nine Syrian and Palestinian refugees who have been forced to life together in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut following the 2011 violence outburst in Syria. Each of the nine writers contributed their story on making a new life in the camp whose inhabitants are thousands (also in M: Movement: (E)Migration, Refugees and Return: Refugees in Arab countries).
Refrences:
In order of appearance
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman Ḥabīb. 2021. “Riwāyāt al-Jawāʾiz … Maḥmūd Ḥassan al-Jāsim Yudawwin Sīrat Ṭiflah Sūriyyah fī ‘Nuzūḥ Miryam’.” www.youm7.com, 30 November 2021, https://www.youm7.com/story/2021/11/30/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85-%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%89/5557638 (last accessed 2 November 2023)