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Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagMar 5, 20175:02 pmNovember 5, 2017
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Belonging (not)

REFLECTION: Dejan Stevanović brings us his story of migration and belonging… or not.

Folk + Food by belongingmagFeb 26, 20175:00 pmNovember 5, 2017
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A special soup: شوربة الدجاج بالشعيرية   

RECIPE: From Canada, Rana Hamzeh shares with us the recipe for her mother’s special Lebanese chicken noodle soup.

Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagFeb 19, 20179:58 amJuly 8, 2018
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#31

MEMOIR: Relja Cvjetićanin recounts a simple exchange in Belgrade that revealed an unexpected shared history.

Poems by belongingmagFeb 12, 20177:44 pmNovember 5, 2017
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The young girl caught sitting on the fence

POEM: Dunja Cvjetićanin brings us her “The young girl caught sitting on the fence”, a rumination on belonging – or lack thereof.

Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagFeb 4, 201710:32 pmNovember 5, 2017
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Health in translation

STORY: Vinh Tran brings us a hilarious story of inappropriate language but well-meaning healthcare with a Vietnamese patient in hospital.

Poems by belongingmagJan 29, 20175:00 pmNovember 5, 2017
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Songs of longing

POEM: Just in time for Chinese New Year, Win Yee Tan brings us her “Songs of longing”, building on Li Bai’s poem, “Ponderings on a quiet night”.

Photos + Art by belongingmagJan 22, 20176:58 pmNovember 5, 2017
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Pestle

ART: Abeir Soukieh brings us “Pestle”, an illustrated “smooshing of the heart”.

Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagJan 15, 20175:44 pmNovember 5, 2017
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The second generation theory  

THOUGHT PIECE: Dejan Stevanović brings us his “second generation theory”, exploring the relationship of children of migrants to their parents’ lands.

Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagJan 8, 20175:40 pmNovember 5, 2017
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One name. Two worlds.

REFLECTION: Thai-Frenchman Boripat Lebel reflects on his duo-cultural name, its origins, and how those around him react to it.

Thoughts + Stories by belongingmagDec 18, 20164:17 pmNovember 5, 2017
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Transposed Christmas

REFLECTION: Anna Koestenbauer reflects on the different ways that Christmas is celebrated in her birth country, Austria, and her current country, Australia.

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