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For many displaced communities, home becomes unembodied: something felt, remembered, or imagined. In moments of rupture, when we’re separated from the land of our birth, translating and preserving memory becomes our saving grace. Through Meherunnisa Asad’s profound stonework at Studio Lel in collaboration with displaced Afghan artisans, we witness how art becomes an act of remembrance; a way of staying rooted. Belonging is reimagined in texture and form.
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00:02Pashtuns are an inherently proud people.
00:08We don't speak of war, but it lingers in the silence.
00:14I want to change not only how the world sees us, but how we also see ourselves.
00:26I'm imagining these butterflies as storytellers, carrying messages of hope and resilience across borders.
00:43Even from stone, something can lift.
00:48Even in exile, something can take flight.

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