How Shall We Greet the Sun explores the personal stories and emotional landscapes of young women refugees living in the Netherlands, including Thana herself. Published as a book, this project reflects their shared and individual journeys, balancing the challenges of forming new identities within the diaspora with the nostalgia and trauma of their pasts. These women navigate lives shaped by new cultural contexts, power dynamics, and memories, exploring how identities are continuously reshaped by current circumstances and the homes they left behind.

Within this larger project, a short film offers an intimate lens into the fragmented memories of women migrants, mediating between the joy of reclaiming normalcy and the sorrow of loss. It juxtaposes Randa’s reflection on the simple yet profound joy of having a private bathroom in a refugee camp with Thana’s mother in Yemen, who shares a family photo filled with faces of those who have passed away in her absence. These intertwined recollections reveal the paradox of creating new memories in post-disaster settings while being haunted by the weight of what was left behind. The film reflects on how memory shapes a sense of belonging and how emotional exile emerges from the tension between joy and grief.

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