The Drowned and the Displaced: Afterlives of Agrarian Developmentalism across the Lebanese-Syrian Border
This article traces the layered significance of displacement for Syrians whose parents’ and grandparents’ villages were flooded after the Euphrates Dam in Tabqa was completed in 1973. Known as al-maghmurin (the drowned), many of the dam’s displaced descendants are now living as refugee farmworkers...
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| Language: | English |
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North Carolina State University, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Mashriq & Mahjar |
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| Online Access: | https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/347 |