TEDxRamallah: Voices from Free Palestine
On Saturday 16th April, TEDxRamallah, a remarkable transnational event will be taking place in Bethlehem, Amman and Beirut, to be streamed on the same day to venues in more than 20 cities across the...
View ArticleConsigned to History? Memoirs of a Closed Rafah Crossing
by Sami Kishawi At a moment of immense hope following the Egyptian announcement that the Rafah crossing is soon to be permanently reopened, Sami Kishawi offers a personal reflection on the untold...
View ArticleDecolonizing the Mind: TEDxRamallah Talk by Alessandro Petti
Alessandro Petti, director of DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), talks about the work and approach of the practice. The talk was a part of the TEDxRamallah event, previously featured on...
View ArticleMaps and the Question of Palestine: An interview with Denis Wood
Diagrametic sketch map of border between West Bengal and East Pakistan Exclusive to arenaofspeculation.org, Linda Quiquivix shares her recent interview with independent scholar and author Denis Wood....
View ArticlePlaying in a Landscape of Separation Lines and Practices
By Idit Elia Nathan Hegemonopoly/Machsomopoly by Idit Elia Nathan ‘Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is...
View ArticleArchitects and Planners for Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Abe Hayeem
Abe Hayeem, chair of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP), speaks with arenaofspeculation.org in a discussion covering professional ethics and modes of action being taken by...
View ArticleThe Palestinian Authority, UNESCO, and the Illusion of Triumph
By Ryvka Barnard This article was originally posted on Jadaliyya, and is re-posted on arenaofspeculation.org with permission from the author. Over one weekend, two seemingly incongruous sets of images...
View ArticleRe:LIFTA, Within the Right to Plan is the Right to Imagine Return
By Mahdi Sabbagh Lifta digital art exhibition poster (Collective MIP) A picturesque ascent overlooking Wadi el-Shami greets every car driving from Ben Gurion Airport to Jerusalem. The valley is dotted...
View ArticleRamallah: The ‘Transforming City’
by Nura Alkhalili This photo essay was originally published in the Berkeley Planning Journal. It is republished on arenaofspeculation.org with kind permission from the author. The piece, based on a...
View ArticleBuilding Resilience in Hebron
By Elisa Ferrato, John Lewicki, and Mick Scott This article is co-published with the Open Democracy Cities in Conflict series. On February 14th a clash broke out in the Old City of Hebron as members of...
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