“When Pasts Overlap”

Disputed heritage sites in India and Israel underline the complexities of layered histories in preservation practices—and show how “heritage” can be weaponized as a political tool.

A video conference presentation delivered at two cultural heritage panels in Portugal and the Netherlands.

“The Architectural Cleansing of Israel”

Published in American Anthropologist, this paper and photo essay examines the spatial process of de-Arabization in Israel’s early statehood.

“Quand l’image est nouvelle, le monde est nouveau” (When the image is new, the world is new)

-Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace

“Public art and spatial control in Palestine”

In the wake of New York’s anti-capitalist “occupy” movement, this essay ponders different meanings of the term “occupation,” and shows how visual vocabularies in the West Bank are embedded with narratives of control.

Published in the book Work in Public, edited by Rachel Alliston.