The notion of “return” has defined the diasporic and extraterritorial nature of Palestinian politics and cultural life since the Nakba in 1947-8. Often articulated in the “suspended politics” of political theology, it has gradually been blurred in the futile limbo of negotiations. Our project extends the legalistic approach to the right of return with a projective one that aims to open the political imagination towards the different forms in which a present return could take place.