Exiled survivors carry their displacement branded on their bodies

Evidence

For those who live, exile is like a tattoo. It is branded on the bodies of survivors like an unshakeable guilt, and stains their minds for as long as they walk this earth. While speaking to Fatima, I could not help but hear the haunting contralto of iconic crooner Sade Adu and recall her spellbinding lyrics about how the “scars of age” are worn like tattoos, tattoos of shame, on the faces and voices of survivors. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 652