This article reviews Jamelie Hassan's retrospective exhibition At the Far Edge of Words which toured across Canada. Ali discusses the main themes of the exhibition as being the representation of self and memory in relation to land and the effects of war. Ali takes up scholar Dot Tuer's catalogue essay which utilizes theorist Walter Mignolo's conception of the world in terms of center and periphery, to argue that Hassan's artistic themes of war abroad (specifically in her native Lebanon) in relation to Canada (as her present place of home) are exemplified in her work in terms of subversive intervention in official narratives.