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Poets express feelings of exile and longing at an evening at Dar Collage in Damascus

Damascus, Syria ·

The evening, titled 'When Exile Blooms Poems', was held on Monday at Dar Collage for Culture and Thought in the Bab Sharqi area of Damascus. Poets Suleiman al-Jayyan, Ziyad al-Shamlan, Safiya al-Daghim and Lamis al-Rihbi read texts on longing, memory, homeland and loss.

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