| Title | “Don’t Wash Your Hands” |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Issam Kourbaj (author) |
| Simon Goldhill(author) | |
| Subha Mukherji (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0417.1.21 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/crossings-migrant-knowledges-migrant-forms/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Issam Kourbaj, Simon Goldhill |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2025-10-03 |
| Page range | pp. 325–336 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Issam Kourbaj comes from a background of fine art, architecture, and theater design. He was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, at the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in St Petersburg, and at the Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived in Cambridge, UK, since 1990, where he has been artist-in-residence, bye-fellow, and lector in art, at Christ’s College. His works have been featured at museums around the world, including Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Classical Archaeology, and Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery; Penn Museum; British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Tropenmuseum; and the Venice Biennale.
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the British Academy. His most recent books are The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and What Is a Jewish Classicist? Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He has worked closely with the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA), and with the charity Refugees at Home.
Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests and publications range across Renaissance English literature, early modern law and drama, form and faith, literary epistemologies, migration, and contemporary Indian art.