This volume gathers together the proceedings of the conference which
took place at the University of Liege from 13 to 15 January 2011. The
conference was part of the project Tropics of Travel: Travel in
Arabic Writings that took the form of four international symposia
held in Venice (2007), Paris (2008), and London (2009). The Liege
conference took the other destination of travel, home, as its subject
and looked at ways in which travel may revise notions of self,
community, and home, and inscribe significance of ontological and
epistemological dimensions into the journey of homecoming. This volume
includes nine articles that were selected from seventeen papers read at
the conference.