Salt of this sea

Borrowing from the title of Annemarie Jacir’s 2008 film where Soraya, a forcibly displaced Palestinian-American woman, gazes at the sea where her grandfather swam before the illegal israeli occupation, the Salt of this sea is a syllabus by Mitra Fakhrashrafi, tracing stories of Black, Indigenous, and racialized people who have long experienced water “as a source of threat and a source of possibility”. Complementing Donya Aref’s digital timeline of the battle between a pseudo-colony and its imperial master over a vast natural resource, this syllabus looks to the persistence of imperial border violence at bodies of water, inviting readers to wade through history, nurture imaginings of a world without borders, and demand no less.

A part of slow horizon curated by Karina Iskandarsjah at Xpace Cultural Centre and available for purchase at Another Story Bookshop