Land Conversations series with Soraya El Kahlaoui

Tuesday 28 July 2026, 12:00–13:30
Location: the Palestinian Museum and online via Zoom
Language: Arabic

The Land Conversations series continues with sociologist Soraya el-Kahlaoui, who brings experiences from Morocco and Tunisia into a comparative reading with the Palestinian land question. At stake is how colonial laws reshaped land tenure, transformed commons into new forms of property, and gave rise to social and political transformations whose effects remain present in struggles over land today.

How have colonial legal systems shaped the relationship between people and land? And what might these connected histories reveal about land: its meanings, its forms of belonging, and the paths through which it is claimed and reclaimed?

Drawing on the entangled histories of Palestine and North Africa, the conversation explores how land is reclaimed and how colonial legal legacies can be read anew. It also examines the political and cultural meanings of Palestinians of Morocco, a name adopted by some communities in Morocco to express shared histories of colonial dispossession and the enduring ways these histories shape relations to land.

Join us for a conversation that rethinks land beyond ownership: as history and memory, as a social and political relation, and as an enduring site of struggle, meaning, and redefinition.

To take part, please email education@palmuseum.org.

_{*"Defending the Land", a PostCard by Bailasan Printing and Internet Services, and a Photograph by Osama as-Silwady
The Palestinian Working Women Society for Development (PWWSD) Collection, PMDA.}