"You find solace in community, in being able to see [that] there is real solidarity taking place at the moment..." Listen to this special episode with architect, historian and urbanist Nadi Abusaada on all podcast channels.

'Glass and Glare' is a visual essay by Aya Nadera Zantout and Meriam Soltan on balcony glazing in Beirut. Read her essay in our Special Issue 'Imaginaries from a Blackout', on everyday encounters with infrastructure in the Arab region: araburbanism.com/visual-works/g…

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba Join us for a conversation with Mohammed El-Kurd and Nadi Abusaada Tuesday, February 20th at 12:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

"There are other histories to narrate about our cities, additional stories waiting to be told. Yet, with the relentless Israeli colonial violence against our land and people, the pace of erasure surpasses that of history writing." - Nadi Abusaada ow.ly/7jU850QGzV1

"Envisioning an open Gaza, liberated from siege, is not only a possibility but a moral imperative. The process of reconstruction must transcend the replication of conditions that precipitated the recent surge of violence." - Nadi Abusaada #GazaGenocide ow.ly/S16150QH6CS

And so City Debates starts, in defiance of ongoing war, genocide, and pain, & in community with people struggling for just presents and futures.

Full house for #City_Debates / #Palestine_Week and exciting presentations! You are missing out if you are not here! ⁦American University of Beirut⁩ ⁦MSFEA⁩ ⁦Beirut Urban Lab⁩

Nadi Abusaada : space as site of colonial display, urban planning as colonial tool by British/Zionist and how Palestinian municipalities countered by advancing own vision of city planning conceiving a future of their own cities with regional relationships with Palestinian villages.

Closing City Debates roundtable on Palestine: how to care as urbanists? panelists: amidst genocide, solutionism obfuscates decades-long making of creative political &social infrastructures inside & outside palestine that need to consolidate &coalesce into a vision of statehood

"إعادة الإعمار ومشروعنا التحرري" مقال لندي ابو سعادة Nadi Abusaada نشر في #مدونة_فلسطين_الميدان لقراءة المقال كاملاً: palestine-studies.org/ar/node/1655449

Looking forward to the conversations, poetry, films and music with these incredible scholars, artists and filmmakers. Thanks to omam, REPI and all collaborators and to Siwar Kraytem for the gorgeous designs.

A photo essay by Amira Elwakil on the erasure and disembodiment of Heliopolis in Cairo. This essay is part of Arab Urbanism's Special Issue 'Imaginaries from a Blackout' on everyday encounters with infrastructure in the Arab region: araburbanism.com/visual-works/e…