About Us
Abdalla Bayyari
About
Abdalla Bayyari is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies, writer, academic, and art practitioner. He is a member of the editorial board of Palestine Studies Journal. His research interests include decolonizing geography, mobility studies, and spatial resistance. His current research projects explore the interplay between geography, urbanity, and body in the Israeli colonial apparatus through counter-cartographic practices. Bayyari is a member of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Urban Affairs Association, and Geographic Association. He is a visiting lecturer in many universities and institutes. Several of his writings have been published via various platforms. His upcoming works include 'Ruins and Emptiness in the Israeli Colonial Apparatus' (in English, 2024), 'Barefoot Resistance: On Producing Space Through Mobility' (in English, 2025), and 'On Urbicide: Production and Destruction of Space in Colonial Apparatus' (in English, 2025). Bayyari has also recently published a paper in Arabic titled 'Where Does Urbicide Begin?' (Idafat Journal, Issue 65, Summer 2024).
Workshops
al-Masalek wa al-Mamalek: A Treatise/Letter in Political Geography
Over the course of 6 sessions, this online workshop aims to delve into the relationship between geography and political science by examining spatial experiences through the analysis of urban planning, border delineation, and infrastructure. The workshop adopts "everyday life" as the paradigm through which the connection between geography—as spaces, places, and domains—and political science—as relations of power and negotiation—can be understood. The workshop seeks to build spatial knowledge that reveals and unpacks the dynamics of spatial experience using critical, anti-colonial methodologies that bridge theory with the embodied, daily experience of space.