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The Conquest of Land and Dream

The Conquest of Land and Dream

Yumna Kassab, Meanjin, Spring 2021

I cannot dismantle the structure I have built by hand. It is mine, my boot prints have trodden their ancestral lines. If I surrender my idea, if I abandon this tower of words and names and claims, I see I am no migrant here. I am an alien and this is not my land.

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