Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 9
4. Prelude I. The Weight of Waiting 13
5. Waiting 27
6. Care to Wait 33
7. The Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib’s 51
8. Sandhours 57
9. Prelude II. Stolen Time 65
10. Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention 71
11. Remain 81
12. Arriving to Depart 89
13. Refugees Welcome? 97
14. Asymmetries 105
15. Prelude III. Waiting among Dead Trees 113
16. Ecologies of Waiting: Stories of a Vacant Land 117
17. after the blast: near silence, rising 129
18. Prelude IV. Standing in Line 137
19. Queues 141
20. The Distance from Here 143
21. Waiting in Queues under Dictatorship 151
22. Our Silence will Swell Like a Mountain 157
23. A Tenuous Case of Trust 171
24. Contributors 181