Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research is launching a series of public seminars titled “Urbicide in Gaza: Spatial Violence, Reconstruction, and Resistance,” supported by the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) and in collaboration with the MA Program in Israeli Studies at Birzeit University.
This project was born of the urgent need to confront the ongoing genocide in Gaza, where, since October 2023, Israel has waged an unprecedented campaign of violence targeting Gazan lives, systematically destroying and erasing the built environment, infrastructure, homes, and public spaces—undermining the very conditions for life itself.
Running from January to June 2026, the series will comprise five public seminars and two workshops, and gather together urban scholars, planners, architects, artists, and activists.
The series is open to researchers, urbanists, students, and public actors working on Palestine, settler colonialism, urban violence, and post-conflict reconstruction. It also welcomes artists, planners, youth organizers, and cultural practitioners who engage with questions of erasure, memory, and political imagination.
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