A memory wall for Zawtar El Sharqiyeh and its people near and far — the homes, the oak, the river, the tobacco years. Read freely; add a memory with a free account.
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So much of Zawtar El Sharqiyeh lives in memory now — the house with a child's height pencilled on the wall, the century-old oak, the smell of tobacco drying on the racks in the evening, the walk down to the Litani. This is a place to set those memories down, in your own words, so they are not lost.
About a third of the village lives away, and everyone carries a piece of it. Add a memory of a place you love, and mark the ones you share with others. Please keep it to your own memories, and gentle. This is not the place for news of what is standing or safe today — only for what the village has meant.
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The house you grew up in, a neighbour's door left open, the shop on the corner — where daily life happened.
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The old oak, the terraces of tobacco, the path down to the Litani, a spring or a view you would know anywhere.
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The old mosque, the cultural centre, the library, the cooperative, the scouts — the places that held the village together.
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Stringing the leaves in the evening, the smell of the seedbeds, the picking, the day the Regie took delivery.
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A wedding, the nights of Ashura and Ramadan, the first spring after a hard winter — the days the whole village remembers.
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