Shifting Boundaries: Art of the Arab Diaspora

Byline: Sulaf Zakharia To come from elsewhere, from 'there', not 'here', and hence simultaneously both 'inside ' and 'outside' the situation at hand, is to live at an intersection of history and memory. Migration and exile involve a 'discontinuous state of being' that assumes the form of a restless interrogation. If voluntary or imposed exile presumes an initial home and the promise of an eventual return, questions met en route consistently breach the boundaries of a clear itinerary. - The Oblique Gaze: Notes of a Spectator, Zineb Sedira.