This master’s thesis examines the motif of homeland in contemporary Israeli and Palestinian poetry, based on selected Israeli and Palestinian poems published in contemporary anthologies available in Slovene translation. The interpretation outlines the literary landscape of both poetic traditions, which, through diverse linguistic registers and symbolic layers, reveal attitudes toward a space of belonging. Particular attention is given to how poets connect individual expression with collective memory, whereby landscape and home function as central carriers of identity. Within this framework, the thesis considers the relationship between personal experience and the broader cultural horizon that shapes the poetics of both communities. It demonstrates that contemporary poetry on both sides of the conflict offers multifaceted perspectives on the notion of homeland that go beyond univocal representations. Within the literary field, the two poetic traditions open the possibility of dialogue between historically and politically divided worlds.
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