It’s in Jordan and the home of 120,000 humans.


For three years, the war (the long winter of the Arab Spring) has claimed thousands upon thousands of lives and displaced 5 million humans. There will be no happy ending here.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...