Cairo Papers Talk Series | Palestine: Confronting Genocide — Al Bassoul and Al Khazouq: Defying Colonial Violence on the Land
This intervention, by Yasmeen Qadan of Birzeit University, explores life within the Palestinian village amidst the violence of colonial infrastructure, with a focus on planting practices as a form of dwelling and inhabiting the land. Colonial authorities sought to eradicate these practices by formalizing landownership through registration, transforming lands into mapped plots to govern both the...