I Always Feel That My ‘Citizenship Age’ in My Homeland is Only One Year! - Syrians for Truth and Justice

I Always Feel That My ‘Citizenship Age’ in My Homeland is Only One Year! - Syrians for Truth and Justice

I lived in Syria for thirty years of my life, twenty-nine of them deprived of its nationality —moving between being “Unregistered” (Maktoum) at one time and a “Hasaka Foreigner” (Ajanib) at another— before spending a single year under a “deficient citizenship,” if this term can even be used, in a country whose successive governments seemed devoted to transferring it from one form of authoritarianism to another. By simple arithmetic, my “citizens…