Homesick for Syria

Posted on August 31, 2016September 4, 2016 by Lorna Cannon

More than two years and I’m still fighting with this life that is new to me, I don’t know what kind of destiny brought me here, It’s war and revolution, Displacement and migration, A language only understood by those who’ve experienced every detail of it, Is there more pain than that in which we live?[…]

How can we clean our government if we can’t even clean our streets?

Posted on August 6, 2016April 4, 2021 by Lorna Cannon

I’m going to tell you a story that most people living in Damascus know. In the late 90s a group of young people decided to take it upon themselves to clean up their neighbourhood. The city council didn’t provide the resources to keep the streets clean so the young people got themselves together to[…]