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Contents: Introduction: Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a Modernist's Mediterranean / Personal Reflections on the Multi-Cultural Mediterranean -- Mafarka Before Being a Futurist: The Intimate Egypt in the Writings of F.T. Marinetti / Marginal Modernists: Claude McKay, Panait Istrati, and the Minor Mediterranean / Mediterranean Crossroads: The Spanish University Cruise, 1933 / Catalan Political Modernism: The Case of Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga (1873 -- 1941) and Modernism on the Periphery / Geopoetics and Historical Modernism: Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding, and Robert Graves in Mallorca, 1912 -- 1936 / A Scent of Jasmine from the Sea: Representations of Tunis in Villa Jasmin by Ferid Boughedir and Le chant des mariees by Karin Albou / Communal Reflections of the Postcolonial Mediterranean -- Naming Surreally: Lautreamont's Chants de Maldoror and Nikos Engonopoulos's Worship of the Greek / Sharing the Stage in Istanbul: The Multi-ethnic Beginnings of Ottoman Theatre / From Autarky to Barbarian Cosmopolitanism: The Early Avant-Garde Movements in Slovenia and Croatia / Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements / Gender Dystopia on the Kibbutz: From Plato to Marx / Flaneurs in the Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and the Origins of the French Modernist Tradition / The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt's Shifting Mediterranean /