Colonialism
Topic
Reflections on Simone Browne’s "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness"
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
Against Architecture: Architecture as a Tool of Power, Erasure, and ResistanceA critical, hands-on workshop exploring how architecture becomes an instrument of power, colonialism, erasure, and resistance, examining the politics of space through the lenses of capitalism, war, and the built environment.
Territorialized Genocide and Urbicide: Gaza, Arab Cities, and the Ethno-Territorial MachineA workshop titled “Territorialized Genocide and Urbicide: Gaza, Arab Cities, and the Ethno-Territorial Machine,” at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in March 2026.
FROM THE SKY TO THE UNDERGROUND: Colonial Spatial Warfare and Palestinian Counter-GeographiesThis lecture examines Gaza as a paradigmatic site of contemporary colonial spatial warfare, arguing that Israeli settler colonial violence operates not merely through military occupation or episodic destruction, but through the volumetric reorganization of territory itself. The talk introduces the concept of "territorialized genocide" to describe a mode of elimination enacted through the production, fragmentation, regulation, and destruction of space. Drawing on critical geography, settler colonial studies, urban theory, and Black geographies, the lecture theorizes Gaza as a volumetric battlefield structured across three interconnected spatial registers: the militarized sky, the fragmented urban surface, and the politicized underground.
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.
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.
Deconstructing Imperial Logistics: A Critical Review of "The Egyptian Labour Corps: Race, Space and Place in the First World War"A critical review of the book "The Egyptian Labour Corps: Race, Space and Place in the First World War" by historian Kyle Anderson, which discusses the forced conscription of nearly half a million Egyptians to support the British war effort during WWI. The review situates Anderson's book within anti-colonial geography, emphasizing the need to deconstruct colonial narratives by listening to the voices of the marginalized.
Mobility and Stillness: On Gazan Tunnels as an Attempt to Decolonize Architectural EducationThis essay is structured as a pathway with many entry and exit points imitating the Gazan tunnels amidst the urbicide occurring in the Gaza Strip. Using tunnels as both a subterranean structure and an educational metaphor, it aims to comprehend the paradox between Western modern capitalist education in architecture juxtaposed with the epistemology represented by various models during this critical historical moment of anti and decolonial confrontation, proposing epistemic disobedience and alternative forms of emancipatory knowledge.
Suspended Urbanism in Settler Colonialism: Planning as UrbicideThis lecture examines "urbicide" not only as physical destruction but as a systematic colonial strategy enacted through urban planning and structural exclusion. Drawing on case studies from Gaza, Jaffa, and the West Bank, the discussion conceptualizes the "suspended city"—a space where modernity, accumulation, mobility, and sovereignty are actively obstructed. The talk engages decolonial urban theory to interrogate spatial violence and to imagine counter-urban narratives and agencies.
Palestinian Space in the Time of Genocide: Introduction to a Spatial Resistance to Colonialism, War, and GenocideThis introduction, written as a conceptual entry to the file of Issue 140 of the Journal of Palestine Studies titled "Land, Human and Place in Genocide," examines representations of the concept of colonized space in Palestine, encompassing indigenous geography and existence, from literature and symbol to infrastructure and history.
Resili[stan]ce: Politics of Exile and Decolonizing Space/Design (A Deleuzian Approach)A concept note for the Eye on Palestine Program – International Summer School, developed for the Arab American University & The New School - New York University, 2024. Examines the politics of exile and decolonizing space/design through a Deleuzian philosophical framework.
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