Mervan Berekat is Syria’s most prominent Kurdish poet. Displaced from his hometown of Afrin in 2018, Mervan became a refugee within his own country, trekking for three consecutive days and covering nearly 500 kilometers to escape armed fighters who relentlessly pursued h...
Mervan Berekat is Syria’s most prominent Kurdish poet. Displaced from his hometown of Afrin in 2018, Mervan became a refugee within his own country, trekking for three consecutive days and covering nearly 500 kilometers to escape armed fighters who relentlessly pursued him and his family. Now residing in Qamishli with only an old laptop and a phone as his possessions, he documents his surroundings in his unique style. “I don’t care about the material things looted from my home for the second time; I only care about the fate of my 5,000 books,” he tells journalist Thomas Sideris. Thomas Sideris, ... Read more