For nearly a century, a bustling railway network connected people in Syria and Lebanon to the world and to one another. Amid violence and economic collapse on both sides of the border, can a few quixotic initiatives revive the lost trains?
Erayak
Béa
Lebanon
Australia
Chekka
Liban-nord
Istanbul
Turkey
United-states
United-kingdom
China
Syria
Farrah Akbik learned the story of Palestine from a friend’s family who lived it firsthand when they were forced out of Safed in 1948, and still had the key to their house hanging on the wall of their small apartment in Damascus. “There is an ongoing system of Apartheid designed specifically to push more and more Palestinians out of their rightful homes and ancestral lands, and to populate them with settlers. More injustice, more people on the roads of exodus carrying yet more keys. The apathy I read, see and hear around me is baffling, but maybe if they had sat in that kitchen with Abu Khaldoon and heard him retell his journey I would like to think that even the most indifferent of hearts would have been stirred.”
Damascus
Dimashq
Syria
Farrah-akbik
Abu-khaldoon
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சிரியா