Hybrid research work centered on the Euphrates River and the Suspended Bridge as living witnesses.

During the Assad regime’s violent assaults and siege on Deir ez-Zor and amid multiple military factions fighting for power and control, the Euphrates was among the first to be targeted. The bridges that once connected its banks were destroyed. The Suspended Bridge, once a symbol of post-French colonization, revolution, and resistance, was shelled, leaving only its three columns standing, suspended in midair. The city’s seven bridges have endured similar violence: whoever controlled the water and its crossings controlled movement, and life itself.

Through imagined memory walks, read text, digital collage and sound, I trace layers of political, personal, architectural, ecological and Islamic memories related to moments of crossing and fragments of water prayers, Euphratean poetry, and local mythologies. It is an attempt at (non)crossing, a movement toward (no)return, listening for what remains and resists in the river’s long and suspended witnessing.