Time and space constitute critical sites of indigenous struggle through which settler colonial assertions of Western progress incentivize and ostensibly authorize the elimination of the native from both domains. For Palestinians, a temporal logic, characterized by redundancy, stasis and collapse, has come to dictate their experiences of time in the wake of the unending 1948 Nakba. Palestinian-time expresses then, the continued traumatic reverberations of the past in the present. Re-centering place in Palestinian sites of analysis complicates the imposition of settler colonial time as a tool of progress. By opening Palestinian literary narrative to place-centered analysis, we may rupture that entrapment by liberal colonialist rhetoric which frames indigenous liberation as a zero-sum struggle against progress and the prerogatives of settler statehood. Keith Basso’s analytic of “place-making,” which centers indigenous knowledge, facilitates this shift from time-centered to place-centered analysis. Resonating with Tawfiq Kan‘an’s 1920s studies of human geography in the landscapes of the Palestinian fellah, both scholars suggest the narrative construction of indigenous “place worlds,” whose organizing logics are dictated by space rather than time. Articulating two modes of disruption, place-making narratives preserve indigenous culture while unsettling colonial paradigms of spatial belonging and exclusion. Despite the efforts of settler colonial erasure, this interpolative practice has been carried through Palestinian narrative traditions into the present. A place-centered analysis of Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt’s The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey (2012) and Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007) discloses the role of place-making in contemporary Palestinian literary forms. Examining Palestinian literature from the perspective of placed-centered narration displaces the premise that time-centered narration constitutes a default organizing logic. This presents the opportunity to re-evaluate common readings of Palestinian narrative, such as its fragmentation, temporal circularity or stasis often attributed to the traumatic rupturing of Palestinian time. Simultaneously, such place-centered analysis illuminates a genre of land narrative widening the terrain of Palestinian literary analysis to encompass a variety of forms, such as El-Haddad’s storytelling cookbook and Shehadeh’s cartographic memoir. This paper briefly addresses its integrality to a larger project dedicated to exploring the multiplicity of forms within a genre of land narrative by authors living both in Palestine and in exile and writing in Arabic and English. Works include fantasy fiction, science-fiction and historical novels, as well as the graphic novel, young adult fiction, photographic memoir and blog.