The concept of hospitality – which by definition refers to ‘the reception or entertainment of guests or strangers with liberality and goodwill’ – has become of increasing relevance to the contemporary global scene.[1] Jacques Derrida, in his book Of Hospitality (2000), offers a particularly illuminating insight on the treatment of the ‘outsider’ by the state… Read More Accommodating the Visitor: Cross-cultural hospitality in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)