Yumna Kassab
![The Conquest of Land and Dream](https://images.prismic.io/thecircular/016657ed-9dac-4790-a95a-0e1645e477eb_meanjin-july-1024x711.jpeg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=50&w=1024&h=711)
The Conquest of Land and Dream
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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