Ciwan Teter

A biography of the war in Syria through prose: a series of testimonials to “things” related to the day-to-day life of the author during the war in an area in which the fight against extremist organizations and daily bombings left indelible marks on urban objects. Not only do streets and buildings change from a concrete perspective, everything changes from an intellectual and psychological perspective. During the years that the author lived under the conditions of war, he found that the most familiar details of life and the most ordinary daily routines, including the business of evacuating bowels, shift and metamorphose from one day to the next. Such changes become the material for his definitions of things. Love changes under the circumstances of war, children change, contradictions and ironies emerge. All such things will be examined and explained under an expressionist and illustrative lens that seeks to pin down the meaning of things during war.