For Migrant Women in Cairo, Art Becomes a Map of Home

For Migrant Women in Cairo, Art Becomes a Map of Home

When someone asks, “Where are you from?”, the answer is often simple: just the name of a country. But for many migrants displaced by war, it is no longer answered with the name of a country, but with a story. A story of loss, movement, and survival. For them, home becomes something that is felt rather than found, evoked by a smell in the air, a sound in the distance, or a moment that passes too quickly to hold. Even if home can no longer be pinp…