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Anna Bernard is a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at King's College London. Her research is at the crossroad of postcolonial studies and Middle Eastern literary and cultural studies. Her fields of interest cover the literature and culture of Israel/Palestine and the international circulation of Arabic and Hebrew literature in translation. She is also  the co-investigator of an international research network  on ‘Imagining Jerusalem, 1099-present’ (2013-15). Anna Bernard  is the author of  Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine(Liverpool University Press, 2013) and she coedited What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say (with Ziad Elmarsafy, Routledge, 2014), Debating Orientalism (with Ziad Elmarsafy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and In Memoriam Mahmoud Darwish, a special issue of Interventions (2012).&#160;&#160;