‘I will always sound like a sad woman’

‘I will always sound like a sad woman’

Nouri Al-Jarrah and Widad Nabi: Two Syrian exiles narrate exile beyond stereotypes—one through reflections on the Mediterranean and the relationship between Greek myth and the Orient, the other by singing about femininity By Filippomaria Pontani In 1878, at the mouth of the River Tyne in South Shields near Newcastle (just a few kilometers north of The Old Oak pub, which in Ken Loach’s film of the same name becomes the setting for the cultural cl…