The Homeless Man Who Offered Me Bread

Maha Bawab Tourbah
4 min readApr 12, 2022
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

There is rampant homelessness in Montpellier, South of France. Perhaps it’s the clement weather and relatively cheaper life, but maybe also due to the fact that the whole Hérault department of which Montpellier is the epicenter is one of the poorest in France. Not to compare miseries, but to give an idea of the scale of things albeit only within France: Paris intra-muros counts 2.16 million inhabitants where Montpellier is…

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Maha Bawab Tourbah

It’s that voice in my head. It needs a place to vent, and a space to invent.