By Annamaria Bianco. In the late 1990s, the establishment of the border-free Schengen Area within the newly formed European Union was counterbalanced by sudden restrictions on the granting of visas to citizens of third countries. The novel Wadi Qandil (Wādī Qandīl), published in 2023 by the Spain-based writer and poet Nesrine Khoury, falls into the subcategory of “refugee futurism”. It contributes to the rewriting of the contemporary Mediterranean imaginary, proposing a heterotopic vis...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Clara-Auguste Süß in Conversation with Manuel Borutta. This conversation explores the historical interconnections, dependencies, and violence linking the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean and how those have shaped social, political, and economic structures on both sides. It touches on the history of Mediterranean studies, struggles of decolonization today, and the role of scholars in the progress. Lastly, it looks at “the Mediterranean” as an analytical category and its ...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research