HOMING INTERVIEW #24: MICHELLE OBEID

Homing interview #24: Michelle Obeid

Interview with Michelle Obeid
Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia
at the University of Manchester, UK

“Creating or recreating home is probably the most obvious and complex way of making life ‘normal’, since home seems to be the most ‘normal’ or ‘basic’ thing that humans everywhere need, regardless of what shape it takes. Home of course can be mobile, or different for different people. Yet, it is one of those things that is cross-cultural and universal. So exploring how one makes home and what it means in different contexts, in relation to people, place and even nation, makes ‘home’ a productive concept”.