A Journey to the Motherland
By: Adel Bashqawi
5 June, 2020
If people are forced to leave their homeland or their nation is a victim of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced deportation, and/or they are born in the diaspora, where they are unable to get out of their skin, the following proverb applies. ‘A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots’. [1] The obsession of the homeland remains in their hearts and minds, where this wisdom applies: “The nostalgia of the esteemed people for their homelands, a nostalgia of birds for their nests.” [2] Read more