Finding Gaza in Lebanon: A Musician’s Journey through Exile and Return

By Reem Anbar

Throughout this genocide, I have yearned to be alongside my people as a musician and music therapist. If I could have been in Gaza, I would have run, oud in hand, across the border.

I have lived through many wars and genocidal waves of repression against Gaza, including witnessing the horrors of occupation and its response to two intifadas. These events made me a…