Lessons Without Homeland

A secular prayer, a collective letter that transcends languages, accents, and generations. A chorus of voices that unites those who live in the camps and those who, from afar, choose not to remain silent. A message for Palestinian children and young people in Lebanon: may their thirst for knowledge never cease to exist, even without a homeland.

From the Beit Atfal Assumoud Learning Classes to young people's right to education, to the initiatives promoted by ULAIA and Yalla Study.  Hind, Olga, and Giovanna explain how behind every lesson there is a silent battle for dignity and the future. Education emerges as a long thread of care—from childhood to university, from war to rebirth.

A journey through collective memory, from the origins of exile in 1948 to the Lebanese civil war. Kassem and Abeer intertwine the stories of their grandparents with that of a people who lost their homes but not their voices. Through their words, the Nakba becomes a human story, and education becomes the thread that unites three generations.

Growing up in a place that does not belong to you, where citizenship is an illusion. Abeer recounts what it means to study in a system that considers you invisible. Here, education becomes a frontier to cross—and knowledge, a right to defend.

A community suspended for 77 years in a country that does not recognize it. In the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, school is a fragile space of daily resistance.  Through the voices of Reem, Alaa, Abeer, Giovanna e Olga we discover how education becomes a political act and a means of survival.