The Sophie Ernst-Haya Touma interview
From childhood memories to national identities, Sophie Ernst’s book HOME explores what the idea of home represents to people who have been forced to leave their homes behind. It also deciphers how artists, filmmakers and writers remembered the places they had left behind during the 1947 India-Pakistan partition and examines the architectural memories of Muslim, Christian and Jewish Arabs living in Palestine and Israel. An excerpt from HOME
The Partition was a tragedy, but the greater tragedy is that today the dream of a united India is the fantasy of the fanatics. I have been party to a fantasy of this sort myself...
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