Blog postArchitectureKnowledge ProductionResearch on Urban Emotions in Cairo Accepted for an Academic Bookmy research proposal, “The City Must Disappear: Development Fever and Visual Urban Emotion in Cairo,” has been accepted.
ClippingColonialismSpatial PoliticsUnbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
ProjectSpatial PoliticsKnowledge ProductionLaunch of the Preliminary Glossary of Rurbanity and a Contribution on “Netush” in Occupied PalestineAn introduction to the Glossary of Rurbanity, a collective research project rethinking the boundaries between rural and urban spaces, featuring a contribution on “Netush,” a locally rooted term that sheds light on land and settler colonialism in occupied Palestine.
WorkshopArchitectureSpatial PoliticsThe Deferred City: Accumulation as a Temporal StructureWhat if accumulation is not what a city leaves behind, but what it holds for the future?
ReviewRommanColonialismKnowledge ProductionDeconstructing 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.
ProposalJournal of Architectural EducationKnowledge ProductionArchitectureMobility 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.
IntroductionTarsheedKnowledge ProductionIntroduction to the Book: Concept-Based Teaching and CurriculumIntroduction to the translated book "Concept-Based Teaching and Curriculum: For the Thinking Classroom" by H. Lynn Erickson, Lois A. Lanning, and Rachel French, translated by Haifa Abu al-Nadi and Abdalla Bayyari, reviewed by Dr. Riam Kafri. The book consists of five chapters on thinking classrooms, knowledge structures, and concept-based inquiry learning.
Research paperArab American University · The New SchoolSpatial PoliticsColonialismResili[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.
PodcastMatraban TalksColonialismPolitics and RevolutionCondemning the Resistance to Save the Modern StateIn the sixth episode of Matraban Talks, researcher Abdalla Bayyari examines the relationship between Western thought and the occupying state, exploring the fears and racism that drive the rapid adoption of the occupier’s narrative, despite the contradictions between this alignment and professed commitments to modernity, justice, and human rights.
InterventionArab Center for Research and Policy StudiesColonialismKnowledge ProductionCulture and Apartheid: Ali Mawasi, Abdalla Bayyari, and Salim al-BaykIn the eighth session of the series Annexation, Normalization, and Apartheid: Towards the Question, What Is to Be Done?, Ali Mawasi, Abdalla Bayyari, and Salim al-Bayk discuss Palestinian cultural life and its politics, examining its successes and shortcomings in confronting Israeli apartheid from their respective positions in Palestine and abroad. The discussion is moderated by journalist Nisreen
BookA. M. Qattan FoundationKnowledge ProductionReading the World: What Young Children Learn from LiteratureA co-translation of Sandra L. Smith's book on how young children learn from stories and narrative. Through inventing and sharing stories, people understand the world; the book explores reading, its theories, atmospheres, tales, and horizons.