“By the time I left the Middle East and returned to Barbados, I came home as something I had not been when I left: known to myself.”

For almost one decade, Petra Noel-Arthur lived and worked across Türkiye, Iraq, and the wider region; places that her passport said she should fear, and rooms that taught her otherwise.

Petra in the Middle East is the record she kept. A sequence of vignettes, small, exact, unhurried, that traces what a Caribbean woman finds when she stops translating herself for anyone. Tea in Istanbul. A border at dusk. The particular silence of a city the news has already decided about. This is not a travelogue. It is an archaeology of a self.

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