My project explores the feeling of being a stranger in one’s own country and the question of how identity is formed when living between two cultures. As a Lebanese woman born
in Germany, I know this in-between state well — the constant shifting between expectations, languages, and forms of belonging. For my bachelor thesis, I wanted to choose a personal topic that also resonates with many people with a migration background. The result is a print project that makes this in-between space visible. Through short texts, moments, and visual compositions, I tell stories of homesickness, adaptation, loss, connection, and eventual acceptance. Interviews and collected experiences from others expand the perspective and show that this feeling is not isolated, but shared by many. In the design, I combine Arabic typography, patterns, and visual elements with a calm, contemporary visual language. This makes closeness and distance, tension and transition perceptible. The outcome is a book that is not meant to be read linearly but meant to be experienced — a space in which being foreign is not seen as a flaw, but as part of a multilayered identity.