The seminar is part of the USF-funded Seminar Series “Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance” and will focus on the concept of urbicide in the Palestinian context, combining approaches from sociology, history, and architecture that put colonial planning at the centre of the analysis.
Presentations:
- The Targeting of Palestinian Refugee Camps and Challenges of Reconstruction
Khaldun Bshara, an architect, restorer, and anthropologist the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Birzeit University. - Concrete Conflict in Spatialization: The Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, an architect and Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University - Constructing Collective Life Under Spatial Destruction
Sandi Hilal, an architect, artist, and educator, cofounder of DAAR – Decolonizing Architecture Art Research
The session will be moderated by Ayham Dalal, architect and urban planner at the German University in Cairo.
Short description: For more details, please click the following link https://mada-research.org/post/16335/Urbicide-from-the-Site-of-Palestinian-Refugee-Camps-(February-2026)