List of Contributors (A-Z)
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︎︎︎ The Cartography of Erasure: Archiving Sound and Mobility in Genocide
A researcher, writer, and curator. Was a senior researcher at The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: Palestine Memory Project (2017 - 2022). He is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies and a member of the editorial board for Palestine Studies Journal (USA, Lebanon). His areas of inquiry are human, cultural, and critical geography. His current research projects focus on critical geography, mobility, spatial and urban studies. He is a visiting lecturer at the Built-Environment Institute for Applied Studies – Middle East and North Africa (Egypt) and Bir Zeit University (Palestine), among other academic platforms.
The book "City Re-construction and Urban Policy Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region" will be published by Routledge in 2025, and Bayyari is one of the authors examining the role of Emptiness and Ruins in the Israeli colonization of Palestinian urban and rural geography. He is a member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Lebanon), the Geographical Association (UK), and the Urban Affairs Association (USA). His most recent publication, "Conceptualizing the Urbicide in Gaza as an Israeli Colonial Apparatus," was published this year in the Idafat Journal for Social Sciences (Oct. 2024).
A researcher, writer, and curator. Was a senior researcher at The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: Palestine Memory Project (2017 - 2022). He is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies and a member of the editorial board for Palestine Studies Journal (USA, Lebanon). His areas of inquiry are human, cultural, and critical geography. His current research projects focus on critical geography, mobility, spatial and urban studies. He is a visiting lecturer at the Built-Environment Institute for Applied Studies – Middle East and North Africa (Egypt) and Bir Zeit University (Palestine), among other academic platforms.
The book "City Re-construction and Urban Policy Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region" will be published by Routledge in 2025, and Bayyari is one of the authors examining the role of Emptiness and Ruins in the Israeli colonization of Palestinian urban and rural geography. He is a member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Lebanon), the Geographical Association (UK), and the Urban Affairs Association (USA). His most recent publication, "Conceptualizing the Urbicide in Gaza as an Israeli Colonial Apparatus," was published this year in the Idafat Journal for Social Sciences (Oct. 2024).
سمر عزريل: من فقوعة إلى عرب الرماضين
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︎︎︎ Correspondent Quests: Traces of PFLP cinema in Beirut
Anaïs Farine is a cinema studies researcher and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Her Ph.D thesis focused on the so-called “Euro-Mediterranean dialogue” and its Filmic Imaginary (1995 – 2017). Her writings have been published in Kohl, Cinematheque Beirut, Trouble dans les collections, Ettijahat, Débordements, The Funambulist Magazine, Africultures, and Aniki, among others. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Festival Ciné-Palestine (Paris).Profile text Anaïs Farine is a cinema studies researcher and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Her Ph.D thesis focused on the so-called “Euro-Mediterranean dialogue” and its Filmic Imaginary (1995 – 2017). Her writings have been published in Kohl, Cinematheque Beirut, Trouble dans les collections, Ettijahat, Débordements, The Funambulist Magazine, Africultures, and Aniki, among others. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Festival Ciné-Palestine (Paris).
Anaïs Farine is a cinema studies researcher and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Her Ph.D thesis focused on the so-called “Euro-Mediterranean dialogue” and its Filmic Imaginary (1995 – 2017). Her writings have been published in Kohl, Cinematheque Beirut, Trouble dans les collections, Ettijahat, Débordements, The Funambulist Magazine, Africultures, and Aniki, among others. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Festival Ciné-Palestine (Paris).Profile text Anaïs Farine is a cinema studies researcher and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Her Ph.D thesis focused on the so-called “Euro-Mediterranean dialogue” and its Filmic Imaginary (1995 – 2017). Her writings have been published in Kohl, Cinematheque Beirut, Trouble dans les collections, Ettijahat, Débordements, The Funambulist Magazine, Africultures, and Aniki, among others. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Festival Ciné-Palestine (Paris).
︎︎︎ A Ballad on Archiving
Dr Anna Sulan Masing is a writer and academic. She is co-founder of Cheese magazine, and the public research platform Sourced which investigates our global food and drink systems. Anna Sulan’s podcast series, Taste of Place by Whetstone Radio Collective about the history of pepper, launched in 2022 and her debut book, Chinese And Other Asian, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Dr Anna Sulan Masing is a writer and academic. She is co-founder of Cheese magazine, and the public research platform Sourced which investigates our global food and drink systems. Anna Sulan’s podcast series, Taste of Place by Whetstone Radio Collective about the history of pepper, launched in 2022 and her debut book, Chinese And Other Asian, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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︎︎︎ Making a historical series on colonial surveillance archives: The case of "Suspicious People".
Arwa Labidi is a Tunisian historian. She received her PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre (France). She is currently assistant professor at the University of Jendouba (Tunisia).
She is the author of two series of historical investigation for the media inkyfada: Gens suspects (Suspicious People) and Le Dessous des dates (Beyond The Dates). Her research focuses on archives, national narratives, minorized histories and education.
Arwa also runs regular urban tours of Tunis, focusing on the city's social, cultural and architectural history.
Arwa Labidi is a Tunisian historian. She received her PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre (France). She is currently assistant professor at the University of Jendouba (Tunisia).
She is the author of two series of historical investigation for the media inkyfada: Gens suspects (Suspicious People) and Le Dessous des dates (Beyond The Dates). Her research focuses on archives, national narratives, minorized histories and education.
Arwa also runs regular urban tours of Tunis, focusing on the city's social, cultural and architectural history.
︎︎︎ Decolonising LSE
Avani Ashtekar recently completed her master's in Human Rights and Politics at LSE. Her research interests include histories of anticolonialism, internationalism, and postcolonial studies, and her work looks at instances of disobedience to anticolonial nationalism and migration. Currently, she is campaigning for gender and sexuality rights at an organization based out of Bengaluru, India.
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Avani Ashtekar recently completed her master's in Human Rights and Politics at LSE. Her research interests include histories of anticolonialism, internationalism, and postcolonial studies, and her work looks at instances of disobedience to anticolonial nationalism and migration. Currently, she is campaigning for gender and sexuality rights at an organization based out of Bengaluru, India.
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من السجن الصهيوني إلى العالم: مقاومة السجّان وكسر العزلة
Basil Farraj is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural studies, Birzeit University. He is currently working on a research project that explores the global circulation of carceral practices, funded by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (IAS_NUQ). Basil’s research addresses the intersections of memory, resistance, and art by prisoners and others at the receiving end of violence. Basil has conducted research in several countries including Chile, Colombia, and Palestine.
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︎︎︎ My Mum’s Diary
Bayan Haddad is an English literature instructor at Birzeit University. She is interested in writing and translation.︎︎︎ ︎ ︎
Bayan Haddad is an English literature instructor at Birzeit University. She is interested in writing and translation.︎︎︎ ︎ ︎
︎︎︎ The Palestine Poster Project Archives: Still open for history being made
Catherine Baker is a member of the Palestine Poster Project Archives Advisory Board. She is also a member of the steering committee of Voices From the Holy Land, which conducts online film discussions, and a senior editor with We Are Not Numbers, a Gaza-based project to amplify the voices of young Palestinian writers. A freelance writer, she has published analyses of Palestine posters including Bombers, Blood, and Teddy Bears: Posters from the 2014 war on Gaza (Mondoweiss) and Palestine Poster Artists Respond to Aaron Bushnell’s Political Statement (Washington Report for Middle East Affairs).
Catherine Baker is a member of the Palestine Poster Project Archives Advisory Board. She is also a member of the steering committee of Voices From the Holy Land, which conducts online film discussions, and a senior editor with We Are Not Numbers, a Gaza-based project to amplify the voices of young Palestinian writers. A freelance writer, she has published analyses of Palestine posters including Bombers, Blood, and Teddy Bears: Posters from the 2014 war on Gaza (Mondoweiss) and Palestine Poster Artists Respond to Aaron Bushnell’s Political Statement (Washington Report for Middle East Affairs).
︎︎︎ From Greece to Palestine: Archiving as a Form of Solidarity
Christina Chatzitheodorou is a PhD student, focusing on women's invovlement in left-wing resistance movements during the Second World War. Her research interests include social movements, particularly women's involvement, violence and its multiple dimensions, and the politics of memory. She speaks fluently Greek, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese and she currently learns Arabic and Swahili.
Christina Chatzitheodorou is a PhD student, focusing on women's invovlement in left-wing resistance movements during the Second World War. Her research interests include social movements, particularly women's involvement, violence and its multiple dimensions, and the politics of memory. She speaks fluently Greek, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese and she currently learns Arabic and Swahili.
︎︎︎ The Public and Private Black Archive
Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at UCL, and a Faculty Associate of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. Dr Nwonka’s research centres on the study of Black British and African American film, with a particular focus on the Black aesthetics, images of Black urbanity and the modes through which Black identities are shaped by representations of environments, architecture, social anxieties and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture. In addition, he has published extensively on racial inequality in the creative industries and ‘diversity’ policy frameworks that are equally born from broader political discourses on race, racism and cultural difference. Thus, Nwonka’s research is interdisciplinary and spans across Film Studies, literature, Cultural Studies, Black Studies and Sociology. Nwonka is the co-editor of the book Black Film/British Cinema II and is the author of the forthcoming books Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British Urban Film, and Black Arsenal: Race, Cultural Memory and Black British Identity (2023)
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Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at UCL, and a Faculty Associate of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. Dr Nwonka’s research centres on the study of Black British and African American film, with a particular focus on the Black aesthetics, images of Black urbanity and the modes through which Black identities are shaped by representations of environments, architecture, social anxieties and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture. In addition, he has published extensively on racial inequality in the creative industries and ‘diversity’ policy frameworks that are equally born from broader political discourses on race, racism and cultural difference. Thus, Nwonka’s research is interdisciplinary and spans across Film Studies, literature, Cultural Studies, Black Studies and Sociology. Nwonka is the co-editor of the book Black Film/British Cinema II and is the author of the forthcoming books Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British Urban Film, and Black Arsenal: Race, Cultural Memory and Black British Identity (2023)
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︎︎︎ The Palestine Poster Project Archives: Still open for history being made
Dan Walsh is creator and archivist of the Palestine Poster Project Archives, which started from a first poster spied on an outdoor wall in Morocco in 1974. A description of why and how the Archives was built is contained in his 2011 master’s thesis, Palestine Poster Project Archives - Origins, Evolution and Potential.
Dan Walsh is creator and archivist of the Palestine Poster Project Archives, which started from a first poster spied on an outdoor wall in Morocco in 1974. A description of why and how the Archives was built is contained in his 2011 master’s thesis, Palestine Poster Project Archives - Origins, Evolution and Potential.
︎︎︎ Two figures in patchwork clothing move forward via camel
Daniella Sanader is a writer and reader who lives in Toronto. For over ten years, she has been writing about (or, alongside) artists’ practices, contributing texts to a number of arts publications, galleries, and artist-run spaces across Canada and internationally. Currently, Daniella is a PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Culture at York University, where her doctoral research on artists’ writing is supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Daniella Sanader is a writer and reader who lives in Toronto. For over ten years, she has been writing about (or, alongside) artists’ practices, contributing texts to a number of arts publications, galleries, and artist-run spaces across Canada and internationally. Currently, Daniella is a PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Culture at York University, where her doctoral research on artists’ writing is supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
︎︎︎ Decolonising LSE
Decolonising LSE is a collective of students, staff, and alumni working together to encourage the practice of decolonising across the London School of Economics. In this past year, we have organised several events online and in-person, demonstrations in solidarity with UCU strikes, and have co-organised with groups such as LSE for Palestine and LSE Justice for Cleaners. Decolonising LSE is made up of several working groups, including the Radical History group.
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Decolonising LSE is a collective of students, staff, and alumni working together to encourage the practice of decolonising across the London School of Economics. In this past year, we have organised several events online and in-person, demonstrations in solidarity with UCU strikes, and have co-organised with groups such as LSE for Palestine and LSE Justice for Cleaners. Decolonising LSE is made up of several working groups, including the Radical History group.
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︎︎︎ Weaving with fragments and fractures
Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food.
She has worked with a range of cultural institutions including London School of Economics, Museum of London, Serpentine Gallery, Tate Modern, National Trust, The Courtauld, Bristol Old Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Wellcome Collection Watershed and Arnolfini.
Her work has been published by Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and Vittles. She has been featured on Observer Food Magazine, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme, Oxford Symposium on Food &; Cookery Ox Tales podcast, Food 52, London Eater, Vice Munchies, Vittles & Bristol 24/7.
When not critically eating her way through life’s messiness she can be found plotting with dhaqan collective, a Somali feminist art collective based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. dhaqan collective is a feminist art collective led by Ayan Cilmi and Fozia Ismail, centering the voices of womxn and elders in our community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration. Our practice seeks to find ways of building imaginative futures that support Somali people here and in East Africa to resist the threats over cultural heritage.
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Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food.
She has worked with a range of cultural institutions including London School of Economics, Museum of London, Serpentine Gallery, Tate Modern, National Trust, The Courtauld, Bristol Old Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Wellcome Collection Watershed and Arnolfini.
Her work has been published by Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and Vittles. She has been featured on Observer Food Magazine, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme, Oxford Symposium on Food &; Cookery Ox Tales podcast, Food 52, London Eater, Vice Munchies, Vittles & Bristol 24/7.
When not critically eating her way through life’s messiness she can be found plotting with dhaqan collective, a Somali feminist art collective based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. dhaqan collective is a feminist art collective led by Ayan Cilmi and Fozia Ismail, centering the voices of womxn and elders in our community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration. Our practice seeks to find ways of building imaginative futures that support Somali people here and in East Africa to resist the threats over cultural heritage.
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︎︎︎ Cartas de agu
Francisca Khamis Giacoman is a visual artist and designer based in Amsterdam. Through performances, installations, and audiovisual works, she recalls stories of migration and unfolds them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. Her research touches upon language, knowledge production, and accessibility through narrative circulation, focusing on different ways of (re)membering ourselves and others.
Actively involved in self-organized projects, Francisca co-founded the “Museo del Perro * Honden Museum” in Amsterdam (2023), “Ediciones Rocas Shop” Cooperative Publishing House in Santiago (2017-22), C.I.A (Centro de Investigación Artístico) in Santiago (2013-15) and Espacio Estamos Bien, an art cooperative in Amsterdam that curates gatherings, publications, and exhibitions. Currently, she leads the development of a support initiative for non-European students at the Sandberg Instituut and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
She has exhibited at Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; Extracity, Antwerp; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; PuntWG, Amsterdam; Stroom, The Hague; and Stadium, Berlin; Bibliotek, London; Gold+ Beton, Cologne, among others.
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Francisca Khamis Giacoman is a visual artist and designer based in Amsterdam. Through performances, installations, and audiovisual works, she recalls stories of migration and unfolds them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. Her research touches upon language, knowledge production, and accessibility through narrative circulation, focusing on different ways of (re)membering ourselves and others.
Actively involved in self-organized projects, Francisca co-founded the “Museo del Perro * Honden Museum” in Amsterdam (2023), “Ediciones Rocas Shop” Cooperative Publishing House in Santiago (2017-22), C.I.A (Centro de Investigación Artístico) in Santiago (2013-15) and Espacio Estamos Bien, an art cooperative in Amsterdam that curates gatherings, publications, and exhibitions. Currently, she leads the development of a support initiative for non-European students at the Sandberg Instituut and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
She has exhibited at Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; Extracity, Antwerp; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; PuntWG, Amsterdam; Stroom, The Hague; and Stadium, Berlin; Bibliotek, London; Gold+ Beton, Cologne, among others.
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︎︎︎ Making a historical series on colonial surveillance archives: The case of "Suspicious People".
Haïfa Mzalouat is a journalist and editorial manager for the French version of inkyfada, a Tunis-based investigative medium that produces long-form articles. She studied history, Arabic and political science. She has carried out numerous investigations, notably for the international Pandora Papers investigation, in partnership with ICIJ. Her favorite subjects are migration and historical articles. She edited the historical series - Beyond the dates and Suspicious People - produced by historian Arwa Labidi and published on inkyfada.
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Haïfa Mzalouat is a journalist and editorial manager for the French version of inkyfada, a Tunis-based investigative medium that produces long-form articles. She studied history, Arabic and political science. She has carried out numerous investigations, notably for the international Pandora Papers investigation, in partnership with ICIJ. Her favorite subjects are migration and historical articles. She edited the historical series - Beyond the dates and Suspicious People - produced by historian Arwa Labidi and published on inkyfada.
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لا تُصالح٬ هاشم ابو شمعة
Dr Hashem Abushama is an Associate Professor in Human Geography and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College. He holds a DPhil in Human Geography and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in the United States. He is also a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin as well as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. He has authored several academic and journalistic articles on dispossession, arts, urbanization, the archives, and postcolonial Marxism.
︎︎︎ Making a historical series on colonial surveillance archives: The case of "Suspicious People".
Inkyfada is an independent, nonprofit media group founded in 2014 by a team of journalists, developers, and graphic designers with the goal of supporting the public interest through innovative journalistic content.
With a particular focus on investigation, contextualization, and data visualization, Inkyfada produces content that helps a diverse readership understand and engage in the politics that impact their lives. Constructed with ongoing collaboration between journalists, developers, and graphic designers, Inkyfada’s publications offer readers accessible and enriching content.
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Inkyfada is an independent, nonprofit media group founded in 2014 by a team of journalists, developers, and graphic designers with the goal of supporting the public interest through innovative journalistic content.
With a particular focus on investigation, contextualization, and data visualization, Inkyfada produces content that helps a diverse readership understand and engage in the politics that impact their lives. Constructed with ongoing collaboration between journalists, developers, and graphic designers, Inkyfada’s publications offer readers accessible and enriching content.
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︎︎︎ Reconfiguring the Archival Regime of Twitter in #Gaza Visual Narrative by a Cyborg
Jamil Fiorino-Habib is a lecturer in Media & Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in film studies and media aesthetics. Having recently obtained his rMA in Media Studies from UvA, Jamil's current research projects elaborate on his interests in political subjectivity, identity, and play, incorporating elements of queer theory and critical theory to explore the evolving boundaries of digital media culture. Making use of unique transdisciplinary pedagogies, Jamil's work explores the intersections of pop culture and sub-culture, the hegemonic and the subversive, and the impacts of cultural imperialism in a globalized media landscape. In tandem with his academic research, Jamil also participates in a variety of grassroots community-centred collectives within the Netherlands, where he helps strategize and develop plans in pursuit of radical system change.
Jamil Fiorino-Habib is a lecturer in Media & Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in film studies and media aesthetics. Having recently obtained his rMA in Media Studies from UvA, Jamil's current research projects elaborate on his interests in political subjectivity, identity, and play, incorporating elements of queer theory and critical theory to explore the evolving boundaries of digital media culture. Making use of unique transdisciplinary pedagogies, Jamil's work explores the intersections of pop culture and sub-culture, the hegemonic and the subversive, and the impacts of cultural imperialism in a globalized media landscape. In tandem with his academic research, Jamil also participates in a variety of grassroots community-centred collectives within the Netherlands, where he helps strategize and develop plans in pursuit of radical system change.
︎︎︎ Halwa, Mahyawa and Multiple Registers of Life in the Gulf
Kanwal Hameed is an inter-disciplinary historian with a background in Middle East Studies, and currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut. She received her PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Affairs (IAIS) University of Exeter, UK.
She has published “One Struggle, Many Fronts: The National Union of Kuwaiti Students and Palestine”, Eds. Sorcha Thompson & Pelle Olsen, International Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution (1965-1982), London (IB Tauris: 2022), “Toward a liberation pedagogy” co-authored with Katie Natanel and Amal Khalaf, Kohl Anticolonial Feminisms January 2023, and “The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait” co-authored with Deen Shariff Sharp, Abrar Alshammari, Kuwait Programme Paper Series, LSE Middle East Centre (13) 2021.
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Kanwal Hameed is an inter-disciplinary historian with a background in Middle East Studies, and currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut. She received her PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Affairs (IAIS) University of Exeter, UK.
She has published “One Struggle, Many Fronts: The National Union of Kuwaiti Students and Palestine”, Eds. Sorcha Thompson & Pelle Olsen, International Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution (1965-1982), London (IB Tauris: 2022), “Toward a liberation pedagogy” co-authored with Katie Natanel and Amal Khalaf, Kohl Anticolonial Feminisms January 2023, and “The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait” co-authored with Deen Shariff Sharp, Abrar Alshammari, Kuwait Programme Paper Series, LSE Middle East Centre (13) 2021.
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︎︎︎ Decolonising LSE
Kimia Talebi is an organiser and historian based in London. She recently completed an MSc in International History at LSE.
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Kimia Talebi is an organiser and historian based in London. She recently completed an MSc in International History at LSE.
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︎︎︎ Social Reproduction and the Uprising
Lucy Garbett is a researcher at the London School of Economics and Social Science based in Jerusalem.
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Lucy Garbett is a researcher at the London School of Economics and Social Science based in Jerusalem.
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︎︎︎ A Small Archive of Secrets and Intimacy
Luiza Prado De O. Martins is an artist, activist and researcher. Their work moves between installation and food, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Their practice explores anticolonial strategies in relations and knowledge between food, infrastructures and technology, and questions what structures and process are needed for collective concerns of care.
Their current artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” reimagines past, future, and present histories of silphium — a plant once used as an aphrodisiac, contraceptive, and cooking spice in the Roman Empire. Thought to be extinct for 2,000 years, the plant might have recently been found again.
Their body of work spans food, performance, video, text, installation, and sculpture, and has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Savvy Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. Luiza is one half of the artist duo We Work in the Dark, and a founding member of the Decolonising Design collective.
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Luiza Prado De O. Martins is an artist, activist and researcher. Their work moves between installation and food, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Their practice explores anticolonial strategies in relations and knowledge between food, infrastructures and technology, and questions what structures and process are needed for collective concerns of care.
Their current artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” reimagines past, future, and present histories of silphium — a plant once used as an aphrodisiac, contraceptive, and cooking spice in the Roman Empire. Thought to be extinct for 2,000 years, the plant might have recently been found again.
Their body of work spans food, performance, video, text, installation, and sculpture, and has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Savvy Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. Luiza is one half of the artist duo We Work in the Dark, and a founding member of the Decolonising Design collective.
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︎︎︎ On Political Friendship and Archival Labour: Working with a Radical Library in Pakistan
Mahvish Ahmad works on the material legacies of anticolonial and Left movements, archival practices in sites of disappearance, fugitive organising under conditions of war, and the shifting techniques of imperial and sovereign violence, especially in Pakistan. She’s a UK-based Trustee of the South Asian Research and Resource Centre, the topic of this blog. She is also a co-founder of Revolutionary Papers, which studies anticolonial journals (with C. Morgenstern, K. Benson), Archives of the Disappeared, which investigates archive in sites of annihilation (with M. Qato, Y. Navaro, C. Morgenstern), and Tanqeed, an English-Urdu magazine of the Left in Pakistan (with M. Tahir). She’s an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics.
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Mahvish Ahmad works on the material legacies of anticolonial and Left movements, archival practices in sites of disappearance, fugitive organising under conditions of war, and the shifting techniques of imperial and sovereign violence, especially in Pakistan. She’s a UK-based Trustee of the South Asian Research and Resource Centre, the topic of this blog. She is also a co-founder of Revolutionary Papers, which studies anticolonial journals (with C. Morgenstern, K. Benson), Archives of the Disappeared, which investigates archive in sites of annihilation (with M. Qato, Y. Navaro, C. Morgenstern), and Tanqeed, an English-Urdu magazine of the Left in Pakistan (with M. Tahir). She’s an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics.
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︎︎︎ The People of the Archive: On the Oral History Tradition of Palestine
Mai Taha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has written on law, colonialism, labour movements, class and gender relations, and social reproduction in the Middle East. A selection of her publications include: Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists (2023); The Comic and the Absurd: On Colonial Law in Revolutionary Palestine (2022); and Law, Class Struggle and Nervous Breakdowns (2021). Using film, literature, and oral history narratives, Mai is currently working on questions relating to labour, the home, and revolutionary subjectivity.
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Mai Taha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has written on law, colonialism, labour movements, class and gender relations, and social reproduction in the Middle East. A selection of her publications include: Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists (2023); The Comic and the Absurd: On Colonial Law in Revolutionary Palestine (2022); and Law, Class Struggle and Nervous Breakdowns (2021). Using film, literature, and oral history narratives, Mai is currently working on questions relating to labour, the home, and revolutionary subjectivity.
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Visual artist, audiovisual creator, university lecturer, and researcher.
PhD in Arts. Specialized in Latin American Contemporary Art (Universidad Nacional de La Plata).
She graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences and as a secondary and tertiary education professor (UBA).
She works as a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET and as a professor of Media and Culture Theories at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
In 2019 she received a scholarship to attend the Di Tella University Film Programme and in 2023 she participated in Talents Buenos Aires organised by the Bafici Festival and the FUC.
In 2022, she published her first artist book Diario de exploración al territorio del color, edited by Biblioteca Popular Astra de Comodoro Rivadavia, as part of its Contemporary Art Imai collection.
Her first feature-length documentary Viento del este (East wind) premiered nationally in August 2023 at the Doc Buenos Aires Festival and internationally at the Jihlava IDFF in the Czech Republic, where it won the Original Approach award.
She has exhibited her visual and audiovisual works in different provinces of Argentina (Río Negro, Buenos Aires, Tierra del Fuego, Córdoba, Santa Fé and Neuquén), and in countries such as Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Canadá, and the Czech Republic.
She participated in several artistic residencies, among them: National Parks Artistic Residency, organised by the former Ministry of Culture of the Nation, August 2023; Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia, April-May 2021; Barda del desierto, March 2023; Rumor virtual residency in Cordillera gallery, Chile, 2020; Federal Residency Panal 361-CFI. Buenos Aires, 2018.
She has been awarded the following prizes: Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos Aires, 2019; Beca de Creación del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2022. Becar Cultura of the National Ministry of Culture, to attend the IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Trabajo, Arte y Economía at the gallery Arte Actual of FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador. 2016.
Her artistic work explores the relationships between images, science, landscape, nature, and colonial history. She creates archival installations combining video, collage, photographs, documents, and writing.
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Visual artist, audiovisual creator, university lecturer, and researcher.
PhD in Arts. Specialized in Latin American Contemporary Art (Universidad Nacional de La Plata).
She graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences and as a secondary and tertiary education professor (UBA).
She works as a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET and as a professor of Media and Culture Theories at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
In 2019 she received a scholarship to attend the Di Tella University Film Programme and in 2023 she participated in Talents Buenos Aires organised by the Bafici Festival and the FUC.
In 2022, she published her first artist book Diario de exploración al territorio del color, edited by Biblioteca Popular Astra de Comodoro Rivadavia, as part of its Contemporary Art Imai collection.
Her first feature-length documentary Viento del este (East wind) premiered nationally in August 2023 at the Doc Buenos Aires Festival and internationally at the Jihlava IDFF in the Czech Republic, where it won the Original Approach award.
She has exhibited her visual and audiovisual works in different provinces of Argentina (Río Negro, Buenos Aires, Tierra del Fuego, Córdoba, Santa Fé and Neuquén), and in countries such as Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Canadá, and the Czech Republic.
She participated in several artistic residencies, among them: National Parks Artistic Residency, organised by the former Ministry of Culture of the Nation, August 2023; Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia, April-May 2021; Barda del desierto, March 2023; Rumor virtual residency in Cordillera gallery, Chile, 2020; Federal Residency Panal 361-CFI. Buenos Aires, 2018.
She has been awarded the following prizes: Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos Aires, 2019; Beca de Creación del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2022. Becar Cultura of the National Ministry of Culture, to attend the IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Trabajo, Arte y Economía at the gallery Arte Actual of FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador. 2016.
Her artistic work explores the relationships between images, science, landscape, nature, and colonial history. She creates archival installations combining video, collage, photographs, documents, and writing.
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︎︎︎ An Archive of Exile and Diaspora
Marral Shamshiri is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics. She is interested in the histories of socialism and internationalism, Third Worldism and the global cold war. Her current project looks at the history of the Iranian Left, focusing on the transnational and political connections between Iranian and Arab revolutionary movements in the long 1960s and 1970s. She is co-editor of the book She Who Struggles (Pluto Press, 2023).
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Marral Shamshiri is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics. She is interested in the histories of socialism and internationalism, Third Worldism and the global cold war. Her current project looks at the history of the Iranian Left, focusing on the transnational and political connections between Iranian and Arab revolutionary movements in the long 1960s and 1970s. She is co-editor of the book She Who Struggles (Pluto Press, 2023).
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︎︎︎ The Tokyo Reels
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, he is a resident researcher at The School of the Art (KASK) in Gent, Belgium since 2017.
Yaqubi is researching archival structures within transnational solidarity movements, asking questions about politics, aesthetics and cinema, at the same time, re-thinking imperfect archives as a mechanism to bridge living memories, his first feature film Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) made its premiere at TIFF, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, Dubai IFF, and Yamagata among fifty other premiers and screenings around the world, his second feature R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (2022) made its premier at Documenta 15, IDFA, Marrakesh FF, True/False among others.
Yaqubi’s filmography as a producer includes the documentary feature Infiltrators (dir. Khaled Jarrar, 2013), Suspended Time (Several directors, 2013) the narrative short Pink Bullet (dir. Ramzi Hazboun, 2014), he co-produced several films including the narrative feature Habibi (dir. Susan Youssef, 2010), the short narrative Though I Know the River is Dry (dir. Omar R. Hamilton, 2012), and the feature documentaries Ambulance (dir. Mohammed Jabaly, 2016) and Ouroboros ( dir. Basma Sharif, 2017), Ibrahim: A Fate to Define (dir: Lina Alabed, 2019) and As I Want (dir. Samaher Al Qadi, 2021).
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Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, he is a resident researcher at The School of the Art (KASK) in Gent, Belgium since 2017.
Yaqubi is researching archival structures within transnational solidarity movements, asking questions about politics, aesthetics and cinema, at the same time, re-thinking imperfect archives as a mechanism to bridge living memories, his first feature film Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) made its premiere at TIFF, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, Dubai IFF, and Yamagata among fifty other premiers and screenings around the world, his second feature R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (2022) made its premier at Documenta 15, IDFA, Marrakesh FF, True/False among others.
Yaqubi’s filmography as a producer includes the documentary feature Infiltrators (dir. Khaled Jarrar, 2013), Suspended Time (Several directors, 2013) the narrative short Pink Bullet (dir. Ramzi Hazboun, 2014), he co-produced several films including the narrative feature Habibi (dir. Susan Youssef, 2010), the short narrative Though I Know the River is Dry (dir. Omar R. Hamilton, 2012), and the feature documentaries Ambulance (dir. Mohammed Jabaly, 2016) and Ouroboros ( dir. Basma Sharif, 2017), Ibrahim: A Fate to Define (dir: Lina Alabed, 2019) and As I Want (dir. Samaher Al Qadi, 2021).
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︎︎︎ Correspondent Quests: Traces of PFLP cinema in Beirut
Nathalie Rosa Bucher is a writer and researcher with an academic background and has published features for South African, Lebanese, and international media. Extensive research on the old cinemas of Tripoli undertaken since 2013 has led to her joining UMAM’s Documentation and Research team, as an archives assistant and researcher and curating TripoliScope. She obtained an MPhil in Rhetoric Studies and Disaster Risk Science from the University of Cape Town and is particularly interested in arts and culture, heritage and memory, mobility, indigenous knowledge systems and livelihoods adaptations strategies.
Nathalie Rosa Bucher is a writer and researcher with an academic background and has published features for South African, Lebanese, and international media. Extensive research on the old cinemas of Tripoli undertaken since 2013 has led to her joining UMAM’s Documentation and Research team, as an archives assistant and researcher and curating TripoliScope. She obtained an MPhil in Rhetoric Studies and Disaster Risk Science from the University of Cape Town and is particularly interested in arts and culture, heritage and memory, mobility, indigenous knowledge systems and livelihoods adaptations strategies.
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Nivi Manchanda is a senior lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, histories of race and empire, and gender studies. She is co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (2014) and currently serves as editor in chief of the journal Politics.
Nivi Manchanda is a senior lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, histories of race and empire, and gender studies. She is co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (2014) and currently serves as editor in chief of the journal Politics.
︎︎︎ Two figures in patchwork clothing move forward via camel
Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of permission and articulation in cultural narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement. Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at La biennale de Québec (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024) Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2017); Casa Arabe, Madrid (2016); Access Gallery, Vancouver (2015); the Mosaic Rooms, London (2015); and the Beirut Art Centre, Beirut (2014). Upcoming exhibitions include Liverpool Biennial (2025).
Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of permission and articulation in cultural narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement. Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at La biennale de Québec (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024) Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2017); Casa Arabe, Madrid (2016); Access Gallery, Vancouver (2015); the Mosaic Rooms, London (2015); and the Beirut Art Centre, Beirut (2014). Upcoming exhibitions include Liverpool Biennial (2025).
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On the Grenadian Revolution Exhibition
Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, content producer and digital strategist. He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought across space and time.
Orsod’s curatorial practice focuses on developing methods to explore cultural and political entanglements found in the materials he works with. Orsod is the Programme Curator at the Stuart Hall Foundation, and was the 2021 Archivist-in-Resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD). Orsod is the International Curators Forum’s Curator and Digital Strategist and the curator of Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference.
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Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, content producer and digital strategist. He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought across space and time.
Orsod’s curatorial practice focuses on developing methods to explore cultural and political entanglements found in the materials he works with. Orsod is the Programme Curator at the Stuart Hall Foundation, and was the 2021 Archivist-in-Resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD). Orsod is the International Curators Forum’s Curator and Digital Strategist and the curator of Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference.
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︎︎︎ The Palestine Poster Project Archives: Still open for history being made
The Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA) was founded as a means of collecting and digitally displaying a wide variety of works in the Palestine poster genre. The Palestine poster genre is more than a century old and growing. The Palestine Poster Project Archives continues to expand as the largest online collection of such posters.
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The Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA) was founded as a means of collecting and digitally displaying a wide variety of works in the Palestine poster genre. The Palestine poster genre is more than a century old and growing. The Palestine Poster Project Archives continues to expand as the largest online collection of such posters.
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︎︎︎ rebellious eyes. through the archive.
Philip Rizk is a film-maker & writer from Cairo living in Berlin. In his films he experiments with methods of “making the habitual strange.” In Out on the Street (2015) he uses performance, in his found footage films Mapping Lessons (2020) and Terrible Sounds (2022) he experiments with the technique of montage. In a world that is breaking down, a question that runs throughout Rizk’s projects is, “how do we prepare ourselves for what is to come?” Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collective behind the archive 858.ma. His writings include the essay “2011 is not 1968: a letter to an onlooker,” and the co-authored book with Jasmina Metwaly On Trials: A Manual on the Theatre of Law (Archive Books, 2021). He irregularly teaches in classrooms and workshops. He is a 2022/23 fellow of The Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.
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Philip Rizk is a film-maker & writer from Cairo living in Berlin. In his films he experiments with methods of “making the habitual strange.” In Out on the Street (2015) he uses performance, in his found footage films Mapping Lessons (2020) and Terrible Sounds (2022) he experiments with the technique of montage. In a world that is breaking down, a question that runs throughout Rizk’s projects is, “how do we prepare ourselves for what is to come?” Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collective behind the archive 858.ma. His writings include the essay “2011 is not 1968: a letter to an onlooker,” and the co-authored book with Jasmina Metwaly On Trials: A Manual on the Theatre of Law (Archive Books, 2021). He irregularly teaches in classrooms and workshops. He is a 2022/23 fellow of The Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.
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︎︎︎ Familiar Fragments of the Revolutionary Camps
Rami Rmeileh is a Palestinian social liberation psychologist, member, and organizer at the European Centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS), and a doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on critical consciousness, indigenous modes of survival and resistance, mental health politics in settler-colonial contexts, anti-colonial archives, and refugee studies. Rmeileh has worked with the European Parliament and humanitarian organizations, advocating for refugees' rights. He also writes experimental prose and op-eds, published in various journals and media outlets.
Rami Rmeileh is a Palestinian social liberation psychologist, member, and organizer at the European Centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS), and a doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on critical consciousness, indigenous modes of survival and resistance, mental health politics in settler-colonial contexts, anti-colonial archives, and refugee studies. Rmeileh has worked with the European Parliament and humanitarian organizations, advocating for refugees' rights. He also writes experimental prose and op-eds, published in various journals and media outlets.
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Chilean revolutionary arpilleras
Roberta Bacic is the founder of Conflict Textiles,an organisation and digital archive of arpilleras,textiles from Chile and other countries that document political and social realities. Arpilleras were (and are) predominantly made by women, and became popular under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile as they documented scenes of violence and resistance, particularly against enforced disappearance. Roberta Bacic has a large collection of arpilleras that she cares for and travels with to exhibitions around the world. This collection is digitised and can be found at Conflict Textiles. During a workshop at LSE with May Day Rooms, Roberta spoke about the history and power of arpilleras, and how we canthink of them as an important archive. After the workshop, we spoke with her about the idea of archiving
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Roberta Bacic is the founder of Conflict Textiles,an organisation and digital archive of arpilleras,textiles from Chile and other countries that document political and social realities. Arpilleras were (and are) predominantly made by women, and became popular under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile as they documented scenes of violence and resistance, particularly against enforced disappearance. Roberta Bacic has a large collection of arpilleras that she cares for and travels with to exhibitions around the world. This collection is digitised and can be found at Conflict Textiles. During a workshop at LSE with May Day Rooms, Roberta spoke about the history and power of arpilleras, and how we canthink of them as an important archive. After the workshop, we spoke with her about the idea of archiving
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︎︎︎ The Palestine Poster Project Archives: Still open for history being made
Rochelle Davis is a member of the Palestine Poster Project Archives Advisory Board. She is the Sultanate of Oman Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and the Director of Graduate Studies of the MA in Arab Studies Program. Before the digital revolution, she collected posters for the PPPA in Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, as well as the US.
Rochelle Davis is a member of the Palestine Poster Project Archives Advisory Board. She is the Sultanate of Oman Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and the Director of Graduate Studies of the MA in Arab Studies Program. Before the digital revolution, she collected posters for the PPPA in Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, as well as the US.
Saba Innab is an architect, urban researcher, and artist
practicing out of Amman and Beirut. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture
from the Jordan University of Science and Technology.
Her work was exhibited at Carnegie International (2018), La Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans (2017), the Marrakech Biennale 6 (2016), Home Works 7 in Beirut (2015), as well as in Lest the two Seas Meet at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015), and Hiwar at Darat al Funun in Amman (2013–2014). Her solo shows include Station Point at IFA in Berlin (2019), Inscribed on Sight at Art Basel Statements (2019), and On-longing at Darat al Funun in Amman (2012).
She has worked as an architect and urban designer with UNRWA on the reconstruction of the Nahr el Bared Camp in the North of Lebanon, a project that was nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.
She has participated in Home Workspace Project 2011-2012. Most recently, she has received the visiting research fellowship initiated by Studio-X Amman, Columbia University (2014).
Through painting, mapping, sculpture, and design, her work explores the suspended states between temporality and permanence, and is concerned with variable notions of dwelling, building, and language in architecture.
Her work was exhibited at Carnegie International (2018), La Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans (2017), the Marrakech Biennale 6 (2016), Home Works 7 in Beirut (2015), as well as in Lest the two Seas Meet at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015), and Hiwar at Darat al Funun in Amman (2013–2014). Her solo shows include Station Point at IFA in Berlin (2019), Inscribed on Sight at Art Basel Statements (2019), and On-longing at Darat al Funun in Amman (2012).
She has worked as an architect and urban designer with UNRWA on the reconstruction of the Nahr el Bared Camp in the North of Lebanon, a project that was nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.
She has participated in Home Workspace Project 2011-2012. Most recently, she has received the visiting research fellowship initiated by Studio-X Amman, Columbia University (2014).
Through painting, mapping, sculpture, and design, her work explores the suspended states between temporality and permanence, and is concerned with variable notions of dwelling, building, and language in architecture.
Samar Ozrail is a researcher and archivist who earned a
Bachelor’s degree from Birzeit University in political science with a
minor in public administration, and a Master’s in international studies
from the same university. After graduating, she worked as a researcher
with the late Samih Hamouda, PhD on several research studies, the most
significant of which was research on the life of the activist Bassam
Shakaa, the former mayor of Nablus. She worked on the Palestinian Museum
Digital Archive project for five years, collecting more than 70
archival collections from the West Bank.
︎︎︎ Memory as an archive of disappearance
Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020). A selection of published journal articles include: on Angela Davis in Egypt in the journal Signs; on Frantz Fanon and Egypt’s postcolonial state in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies; on Gramsci and anticolonialism in the postcolony in Theory, Culture and Society; and on Nasserism in Egypt through the lens of haunting in Middle East Critique. She is currently thinking and writing about ghosts and anticolonial archives.
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Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020). A selection of published journal articles include: on Angela Davis in Egypt in the journal Signs; on Frantz Fanon and Egypt’s postcolonial state in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies; on Gramsci and anticolonialism in the postcolony in Theory, Culture and Society; and on Nasserism in Egypt through the lens of haunting in Middle East Critique. She is currently thinking and writing about ghosts and anticolonial archives.
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︎︎︎ Archives of Dreaming
I am an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I currently hold a British Academy -Wolfson Fellowship (2022 to 2025). In all my work, I’m interested in how spaces of colonial education shape histories of gender, sexuality, and race. My first book, Unhomely Histories focuses on hostels for girls in late colonial India, asking how to make sense of an archive that is simultaneously sparse and abundant in its construction of girlhood at the nexus of projects of racial and sexual difference in the colony. In previous work, I have focused on the interplay of pleasure and danger in young women’s lives in India, and on the ordinariness of carcerality in the project of postcolonial sexual discipline in India. My work has appeared most recently in Social History,Antipode, and Gender, Place, and Culture. I have also written for readers beyond the academy in Public Books,the Abusable Past, and History Workshop Journal. I am also Editor of Gender, Place, and Culture and Associate Editor of The Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
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I am an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I currently hold a British Academy -Wolfson Fellowship (2022 to 2025). In all my work, I’m interested in how spaces of colonial education shape histories of gender, sexuality, and race. My first book, Unhomely Histories focuses on hostels for girls in late colonial India, asking how to make sense of an archive that is simultaneously sparse and abundant in its construction of girlhood at the nexus of projects of racial and sexual difference in the colony. In previous work, I have focused on the interplay of pleasure and danger in young women’s lives in India, and on the ordinariness of carcerality in the project of postcolonial sexual discipline in India. My work has appeared most recently in Social History,Antipode, and Gender, Place, and Culture. I have also written for readers beyond the academy in Public Books,the Abusable Past, and History Workshop Journal. I am also Editor of Gender, Place, and Culture and Associate Editor of The Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
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︎︎︎ Citizen Sound Archive
The Citizen Sound Archive is a multilingual archive of relations and imaginations; of political voices and songs of belonging; of movements, migrations, and social transformations. It contains recordings made by members of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF), a movement and community organisation based in Athens, Greece. The archive is a sounding board of creative methods of belonging, through which we connect our work in Athens to histories and geographies of resistance. Through these recordings, we seek to reimagine Athenian publics and politics, and to write anticolonial Mediterranean futures.
The archive is co-run by Tom Western – a researcher and teacher based at UCL – with colleagues in SGYF. It gathers and combines artistic, activist, and academic perspectives, and the result is a space of creation and collaboration: a resource for the city; a platform for communication with movements elsewhere; a space of community mobilising, collective research, and knowledge production. Tom and SGYF colleagues also produce a regular show on Movement Radio, working with materials from the sound archive. This is part of broader ongoing work of thinking with sonic and spatial imaginations and forms of resistance, and the ways that they open creative ways of contesting the logics of borders, citizenship regimes, and other forms of social injustice.
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The Citizen Sound Archive is a multilingual archive of relations and imaginations; of political voices and songs of belonging; of movements, migrations, and social transformations. It contains recordings made by members of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF), a movement and community organisation based in Athens, Greece. The archive is a sounding board of creative methods of belonging, through which we connect our work in Athens to histories and geographies of resistance. Through these recordings, we seek to reimagine Athenian publics and politics, and to write anticolonial Mediterranean futures.
The archive is co-run by Tom Western – a researcher and teacher based at UCL – with colleagues in SGYF. It gathers and combines artistic, activist, and academic perspectives, and the result is a space of creation and collaboration: a resource for the city; a platform for communication with movements elsewhere; a space of community mobilising, collective research, and knowledge production. Tom and SGYF colleagues also produce a regular show on Movement Radio, working with materials from the sound archive. This is part of broader ongoing work of thinking with sonic and spatial imaginations and forms of resistance, and the ways that they open creative ways of contesting the logics of borders, citizenship regimes, and other forms of social injustice.
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︎︎︎ Syrian Cassette Archives: The coming together of a community archive
Yamen Mekdad is a music researcher, collector, DJ and radio host based in London. His interests in field recording, archiving, radio and grassroots organising have led him to found Sawt of the Earth and Makkam, two London-based collectives. He is a frequent contributor to a number of radio stations, including Root Radio and Balamii Radio, and was a producer of DanDana podcasts on SOAS Radio. Yamen is currently co-producer/curator of the Syrian Cassette Archives, a web based platform that preserves the Syrian cassette era as well as curating and producing SACF’s (Syrian Arts and Culture Festival) music programme. Yamen has performed and collaborated with various artists/art institutions both in the UK and internationally.
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Yamen Mekdad is a music researcher, collector, DJ and radio host based in London. His interests in field recording, archiving, radio and grassroots organising have led him to found Sawt of the Earth and Makkam, two London-based collectives. He is a frequent contributor to a number of radio stations, including Root Radio and Balamii Radio, and was a producer of DanDana podcasts on SOAS Radio. Yamen is currently co-producer/curator of the Syrian Cassette Archives, a web based platform that preserves the Syrian cassette era as well as curating and producing SACF’s (Syrian Arts and Culture Festival) music programme. Yamen has performed and collaborated with various artists/art institutions both in the UK and internationally.
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︎︎︎ The Dust Does Not Simply Settle
Yasmine Kherfi is a London-based writer, editor, and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics, where her project explores entanglements between revolution, collective memory and cultural production in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Prior to her PhD, Yasmine administered research projects as part of the LSE Middle East Centre’s collaboration programme with Arab universities. She holds a master’s from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, and a BA in Middle East studies and political science from the University of Toronto. With experience working in the cultural sector, Yasmine occasionally curates events centering on solidarity and regional struggles.
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Yasmine Kherfi is a London-based writer, editor, and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics, where her project explores entanglements between revolution, collective memory and cultural production in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Prior to her PhD, Yasmine administered research projects as part of the LSE Middle East Centre’s collaboration programme with Arab universities. She holds a master’s from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, and a BA in Middle East studies and political science from the University of Toronto. With experience working in the cultural sector, Yasmine occasionally curates events centering on solidarity and regional struggles.
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