Abdalla Al-Bayyari
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Welcome to the official website. Here you'll find Abdalla Al-Bayyari's research, writing, academic, and artistic work, alongside his publications, projects, workshops, and media appearances.
Academia
The Cartography of Erasure: Archiving Sound and Mobility in GenocideThis essay examines the cartographic practices of settler-colonial regimes, focusing on the ways in which mapping is deployed as a tool of erasure, domination, and spatial restructuring. Through critical analysis of historical and contemporary cartographic techniques, the study interrogates how maps not only represent space but actively participate in its reconfiguration by obscuring indigenous presence, reconfiguring territorial boundaries, and legitimizing colonial control. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from geography, history, and critical cartography, the essay argues that cartography serves as both an instrument of erasure and a site of contestation.
Towards Contestation Through Movement and Substance Against Colonial Spatial-Geographic HegemonyThis paper examines Land and Territory as tools that formed primitive mechanisms for later technologies of self-discipline and taming of movement, which intersected in the settler colonial context to dominate indigenous bodily movement. Movement is a colonial material subject to domination, and non-negotiable within the Zionist colonial machine except under its own conditions of production. The paper analyzes how movement functions as a field of colonial violence while simultaneously producing counter-knowledge and anti-colonial subjectivity, drawing on Arab-Islamic philosophy regarding substance and movement.
How Do We Add Zero?Written about Elias Khoury at his incomplete departure from us, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 141, Winter 2025. Also written on the margins of a research project titled "On Death Suspended in Space," an attempt to produce a spatially and narratively composite map of Beirut based on the materiality of everyday thought as described by Mahdi Amel.
Media
Interview with Abdallah Bayyari on Palestinian Literature
Culture and Apartheid: Ali Mawasi, Abdallah Bayyari, and Salim al-Bayk
Discussion of Forget Baghdad — Abdallah Bayyari
How Does the Occupation Discipline Time and Space? 
What Is the Relationship Between the Body, Thought, Politics, and Revolution?
Index of works
- 01Publications
Research papers, academic writing, and published articles.
- 02Workshops
Workshops, seminars, and experiments in teaching and learning.
- 03Projects
Research and cultural projects, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
- 04Media
Lectures, interviews, audio and video appearances, and podcasts.
- 05Blog
Essays written for this site, and reflections on research, writing, and everyday life.
About
About Abdalla Al-Bayyari
Abdullah Al-Bayari is a Palestinian researcher, writer, academic, and art curator. He works at the Institute for Palestine Studies and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Palestine Studies.