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Home Is where the Bees Are! Beekeeping as Homing in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland

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Published/Copyright: March 28, 2023
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Abstract

Starting with a reading of Christy Lefteri’s refugee narrative The Beekeeper of Aleppo, this article looks into the fragmentation and instability of the notion of home for refugees, highlighting the resort of the characters to a notion of homing as a practice of planetary dimensions. By looking at the role of bees and beekeeping in The Beekeeper of Aleppo and the Macedonian documentary Honeyland home is explored as a ‘verb’ rather than a static location. Moreover, this article also reflects on human and non-human kin, to use Donna Haraway’s term, in the creation of home spaces and relations.[1]


Corresponding author: Dr. Amina ElHalawani, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Portsaid St. ElShatby, Alexandria, Egypt, E-mail:

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