In Out of Place, Edward Said writes his childhood and youth between Jerusalem, Cairo, Beirut, and the United States through an experience shaped by school, exile, family, language, and identity. The book does not offer a reassuring linear memoir, but a sustained account of not fully belonging and of being formed across places in which one never quite settles. Fawwaz Traboulsi’s Arabic translation opens this decisive personal text to an Arabic readership that can also read it as the history of a century of displacement and transformation.