Literature's Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East—recovered and retold at last

In 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, “pacifying” the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood. This imposition of borders not only uprooted peoples from their place in the world; it also displaced many of their stories from a place in world literature. In Literature’s Ref...