The Mediterranean is the meeting point of three continents--Asia, Africa, and Europe--as well as three major monotheistic religions--Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Focusing on global networks and cultural exchanges,Mediterranean Passagescollects writings from across three centuries to provide a pan-Mediterranean perspective of the cultural, political, and economic relations that crisscross the region, linking people and places from antiquity to the present.From Homer's hymn to Apollo to the writing of French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida, from the contemporary accounts of North African Berber conqueror Tariq ibn al-Yazid to the journalism of American I. F. Stone, this chronologically organized anthology juxtaposes the voices and experiences of travelers, exiles, and colonizers who have lived in or visited the Mediterranean region since before 1200 B.C.E. Literary and historical texts and a gallery of maps, architecture, photographs, and paintings provide glimpses of travel and migration, trade routes, military conquest, and cultural exchange. Together, these selections highlight the networks of connections, intersections, and interruptions that animate a vital and contested geographical space.

Preface
Introduction
Ancient Diasporas
The Sea Peoples Letters from Ugarit and Inscriptions of Ramses III
Cedars for Egypt Wenamun Phoenicians in the West Nora
Stone and Marseilles Inscription Odysseus's Wanderings Homer
Travels of a Farmer Hesiod Exile and Return Psalm 137 and Ezra Lamentation over
Tyre Ezekiel Delos at the Crossroads Homeric Hymn to Apollo Study
Tours Diogenes Laertius and Herodotus Travels in a Fish Jonah
Beyond the Pillars of Hercules Hanno the Carthaginian Persians versus
Greeks Aeschylus King Minos and Thalassocracy Thucydides Grain
Trade Dispute attributed to Demosthenes Foundation
Decree of Cyrene Where to Found a Polis Aristotle Escorting a Princess Artemidorus
Mare Nostrum: Our Sea
A Roman Mediterranean Polybius Sale of Callirhoe
Chariton Cleopatra's Death Horace Dido and Aeneas Virgil
Translating the Law Philo Shipwreck at Malta
Acts of the Apostles Alexander's
Civilizing Mission Plutarch Touring Egypt
Julia Balbilla Carthaginian Ascendancy
Appian Olympic Origins Pausanias Women in the Holy Land Eusebius of Caesarea and Egeria
Painful Departures Augustine Law and Holy Wisdom Justinian and Procopius T-O Map Isidore of Seville
Barzakh:
The Waters Between Ornament of the World Ibn Abd al-Hakam
Charlemagne and Harun Einhard and the Monk of St. Gall Arabic
Medicine in Europe Constantine the African Refugee Dispatch
Karaite Jews from Ascalon Aristotle in Andalus Maimonides and Averroes
Jewish and Muslim Networks Benjamin of Tudela and Ibn Jubayr
Perplexed among Crusaders Usamah ibn Munqidh Richard and Saladin Ambroise
Purgatory Dante Alighieri
The Reunited Lovers Giovanni Boccaccio Between
East and West Ibn Battuta Two Romes Manuel Chrysoloras
A Muslim Caesar Tursun Beg
Grand Tours
The Westerly Route to the East Christopher Columbus
An Ottoman Prince on Rhodes
Slave Leo Africanus New Argonauts Ludovico Ariosto
A Sultanate of Women Catherine de Medici Marine Merchant Shakespeare
The Captive's Tale Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
An Ottoman Tourist Evliya elebi Efendi
The Conversion of Sabbatai Sevi Samuel Brett, Sir Paul Rycaut, and Richard Kidder
A New World Lady Wortley Montagu
From Rome to Naples William Beckford
From Naples to Palermo Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May the Mamluks be Cursed Napoleon Bonaparte
Base Ignorance and Disbelief Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
Epic Encounters
Where Sappho Loved Lord Byron
The Bejeweled Fly Whisk Pierre Deval
From Palma to Malta Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine
Voyage to Algeria Alexis de Tocqueville Treasures of Troy Heinrich
Schliemann Exquisite Whores Guy de Maupassant Pray for a Long Journey
Constantine Cavafy The Corrupting Sea Thomas Mann
Remapping the Mediterranean
The King-Crane Commission Remember the Harbor Ernest Hemingway
Women Unveil Huda Shaarawi City and Psyche Sigmund
Freud Reconciling Tradition and Modernity Yahya Haqqi
Ship of Misery I. F. Stone Odysseus's Scar Erich Auerbach
A Global Pond Mediterraneanizing Identity Americo
Castro Oldnewland David-Ben Gurion Daughters of Aphrodite Lawrence Durrell
The Sixth Continent Halikarnas Balkis Mirror of the Self Orhan Pamuk
Thousands of Watchful Eyes Assia Djebar Last Evening in this Land Mahmud
Darwish Guarding the Coasts Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Island Melancholy Margarita
Karapanou Blind Dreams Fadila al-Faruq
The Language of the Other Jacques Derrida Partners
Adrift Fawzi Mellah Mediterranean Thinking Franco Cassano
Further Readings
Index
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