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Our humanity aside, we are fed up with the myopic view of supporters of Palestine in harping about Israel’s defensive strategy. Had it not been for the attacks of October 7th, the 27,3750 days of Israeli occupation, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, home demolitions, illegal/racist settleme..

Clearly, Israelis have a ton to be traumatized by. But Palestinians?  

Hands down (if they leave you any), there are no words to describe the grandeur of the most moral army in the history of the world. The mere mention of the acronym IDF (I have goosebumps as I type these letter. Hang on….) induces ..

Despite the widely popular claim that nearly all Arab states have been generally absolute pieces of shit when it comes to lifting the right or any finger to challenge Israel's genocide in Gaza, upon meticulous inspection, one finds embedded valiance, bravery, and sheer heroism in their carefully..

For decades, critics have incessantly pointed out the problems with Zionism. Zionism this and Zionism that. It doesn’t end, with no regard to how hard Zionists have worked to dispossess an entire people and proceed to evict, ethni..

Reasonable people can see right through the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) blatant antisemitism, as it presided over South Africa’s charge of Genocide against Israel. Instead of throwing out the case and the demand for immediate ceasefire along with it, the ICJ called for the end to all ..

Yeah, it’s infuriating. We know. Sharing and defending genocidal values with the U.S.’s closest and dearest ally Israel is not enough. Supporting antisemites so long as they support Israel is not enough. Sending more than 100 2,00..

Saying "Free Palestine" has proven to be both insensitive and deeply offensive, and, in nearly all instances, profoundly traumatizing, and, wait, could also be akin to a declaration of war, or, in some serious and totally real ways, tantamount to an actual physical assault on the listener when u..

This article proposes a new critical method in for the field of geography emerging from our collaborative study of the landscape in Palestine. We have been working for six years to elucidate landscape transformation within a community-based context. Along the way, we have dev..

During the past decade, many researchers have studied the relationship between geography and law in an attempt to clarify the links between these two increasingly complex concepts. In reality, comparing law and the built or natural environment can alter our understanding of both..

Years ago as a student involved in the movement against the Israeli occupation, I came to see that even in progressive circles, many of us who were not Palestinian were not capable of really listening to our Palestinian co-organizers. For those who have a particular ..

None but the hopelessly naive or the woefully ill-informed can deny the relevance of sectarian (here meaning Sunni and Shiʿi) identities in the contemporary Middle East, particularly in the Mashriq. Equally self-evident is the centrality of victimhood in how these identities are perceived by the..

All the anomalies of authoritarianism in contemporary Turkey seem telescoped, or short circuited in Istanbul’s “Palaces of Justice” (Adalet Sarayı). One of these “palaces” is on the Anatolian side in Kartal, and two in Europe, in Çağlayan and Bakırköy.

I run to the fields, walk amidst mountains, and breathe in the smell of leaves to escape the chaos, pollution, and claustrophobia of Ramallah. The lack of open space and adequate urban parks in the city leaves me constantly hungry for green fields and crisp f..

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Unfolding Middle Eastern Landscapes
Changing Forms, Evolving Tools, Transforming Meanings
Beirut, 31 May-2 June 2016

This conference aims to bring together landscape academics and professionals to reflect on the discourse of landscape in the Middle East. The organizers hope ..

In this Quick Thoughts conversation with Status/الوضع host

Souls` Landscapes is a three-part performance produced by Uriel Barthelemi in collaboration with Entissar Al Hamdany, Joel Lokossou, Rigo 23, and Fabrice Taraud. It is loosely inspired by Frantz Fanon`s 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth and incorporates music, dance, shadow, and ..

As a Palestinian photojournalist living in the West Bank my daily work is very far from the quiet and fabulous nature that is seen in these pictures. Every week I spend hours covering protests, clashes, and the military operations of the Israeli occupying forces. In between I give myself some re..

[Khaled Malas is a Syrian architect who curated a series of events on the production of the landscape in Syria from before the First World War until today, entitled “excavating the sky” (12-14 August, 2014), at the 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale (7 June to 23 Novemb..

[Between 12-14 August 2014 at the 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale, architects, filmmakers, and activists from Syria and the Arab World, gathered for a series of events focused on Syria and the production of its landscape from before the First World War until today. Using the ..