Speakers: Amany Khalifa and Yara Saadi

Sunday, 13 June | 18:00-19:00
Language: Arabic
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

Amid the policies of control over sources of knowledge, and with the methodical erasure and banishment of the Palestinian discourse in relation to defining public space and local geography, there is an urgent need to confront the colonialist discourse and to bolster the Palestinian narrative regarding place; for years, up-to-date official Palestinian maps and blueprints for the city of Jerusalem and Palestine in general have been absent. In this lecture, Amany Khalifa and Yara Saadi discuss maps and blueprints as tools of domination over geography in the colonial context and talk about Palestinian initiatives undertaken to resist this reality.