Return 67: In the Name of Memory

Iyas Shahin  |  Creative and Critical Writings  |  2025  |  Syria
Return 67: In the Name of Memory is a documentary graphic novel that unfolds as a dialogue between two generations: the author’s father, who spent his childhood in the Syrian village of Ayn Fit in the occupied Golan Heights before being displaced in 1967, and the author himself, born far from the place his family once called home. Through maps, official documents and the living memory of its displaced residents, the work recalls the destroyed village. Return 67 is both a literary act of resistance and a testament to the power of memory against erasure, using storytelling as a means to reclaim what has been taken.