Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2020
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Research Title
Beyond the Land of Palestine
No Monument Location
Bodies and life vests washing up on the Mediterranean’s northern shores have recently disrupted the idyllic image of the Mediterranean. However, it has long been an ambivalent space for the Palestinian people since the loss of their homeland in 1948. Joseph R. Farag's book project explores how a geographic reading of the sea in Palestinian literature and film can reshape our views of the Mediterranean and of Palestinian experiences of both place and exile.