Between I and lands – Oumayma Ben Tanfous Celine Semaan Gilbert Hage

Gilbert Hage

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Colonizers throughout history take up land

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Between I and lands – Oumayma Ben Tanfous Celine Semaan Gilbert HageBetween I and Lands is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging. "Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, I returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in my dreams but evolved in my absence. Over two years, I retraced places imprinted in my familys history: Tunis, where I was born; Djerba, the land of my ancestors; and Kerkennah, the site of my childhood summers. Documenting the tension between memory and reality,