Echoes Logos | 8 March 2026
 

Offered on International Women's Day as an act of recovery, this Echoes Logos essay brings forward the voices of Lebanese women zajjālāt whose vernacular poetry recorded migration not merely as movement, but as emotional rupture, endurance, and belonging. Reading their verses as testimony, the essay explores how women's oral poetry mapped the affective geographies of Lebanese families dispersed across the mahjar, challenging archival silences and affirming women's cultural production as an essential record of migration, memory, and national experience.