Introduction: Rethinking the liminal -- Exilic memory and the spaces of occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I saw Ramallah -- "A dark cellar under his feet": negotiating the diasporic-Israeli threshold in Amos Oz's A tale of love and darkness -- H?z?n-dialectics: The agency of the past in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories of a city -- Through the archive, towards self-knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins: a memoir -- Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A world I loved: some conclusions, more beginnings.