Ammar Azzouz
Ammar Azzouz is a London-based architect and writer. Ammar completed his Ph.D. in Architecture at the University of Bath. Since 2019, he has been a Short Term Research Associate at the University of Oxford. His book “Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria,” was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.
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The Stories and Art of the Displaced Help Reveal the Meaning of Home
While news outlets often turn refugees into faceless numbers and politicians weaponize their struggles to fit their own agendas, I find nothing more powerful than individual stories, and the way each of us tries to make sense of the burning question: What is home, when you can no longer return?
Depicting Syria From Afar
Ammar Azzouz left his home town of Homs in Syria over a decade ago and has never been back. Here he reflects on the multiple ways Syrians in exile use art to build a new sense of identity and how other artists have shown solidarity in the struggle.