Irene Hsu is a senior majoring in English Literature, minoring in Computer Science. As a Research Assistant, she works on the Poetic Media Lab's Lacuna Stories, a social annotation platform for classroom learning. She writes and reads poetry, fiction, the things in between, and the things beyond. She is also picking out tunes on the ukulele.
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How would a map of Palestinian culture look like? The world system of literary production for Palestinians has been globally spread out since the Nakba (1948) and their dispersion throughout the Arab and Western world (the shatāt). Mapping diasporic or exilic literature begs a global perspective as well as a dynamic tool that can track movement and change across time and space. This Digital Humanities project visually maps the circulation, international movement, and (im)mobility of Palestinian authors and specific Palestinian texts.