Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean extends a series of efforts concerned with reorienting Mediterranean Studies along modern and contemporary chronological axes. In a world whose boundaries are constantly reinforced and trespassed, a world where the successive waves of refugees relentlessly question our ethics and praxis of hospitality, the Mediterranean emerges as a space where hospitality is renegotiated and redefined through past narratives and works of art. Literature and the arts trigger a new ethical awareness of contemporary political re/configurations and epistemological changes. The iterative processes of telling and sharing make artistic productions privileged sites for a new kind of hospitality that offers creative responses to an inhospitable world. The introduction offers an overview of the concept of hospitality as embedded in the local context of the Mediterranean, and shows how, over the past twenty years, hospitality has garnered interest across a range of disciplines that have often focused on its negative counterpart, inhospitality. In this view, Immanuel Kant’s project for perpetual peace through a regulated cosmopolitan hospitality has been superseded by a cosmopolitan hostility, a view that has been buttressed by Jacques Derrida’s seminars on hospitality. Against this backdrop, the introduction offers a meditative halt, the occasion to ponder a complex, paradoxical concept whose intertwined etymological roots—hostis, hospes—foregrounds an aporia, built around the twinned, contrasting notions of movement and mobility that characterize the Mediterranean. Hospitality can therefore be understood as a way of being in the world that is constantly reconstructed through memory, past narratives, voices, and art works, a revolutionary re-membering that challenges political and national forms of belonging. Hospitality is a hermeneutic tool for the critique of our present-day sick hospitality, the fluidity of time and space, and the intimate knowledge that we are all transient guests on earth. From this perspective, the Mediterranean stands out as the locus of a newly founded commonality.