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Book talk: Book talk and panel discussion of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in A Divided Beirut” hosted by Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. 1 July 2021
This panel begins with the author introducing the book, followed by three discussants: Tania El Khoury (Director of the Center for Human Rights and The Arts at Bard College, New York), Sara Fregonese (Lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK), and Ghenwa Hayek (Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago). Beirut Urban Lab.
1 July 2021
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Podcast: Speaking with Faculti about “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. 31 May 2021
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Screening: Sewing Borders screening part of “Imagining Queer Bandung” at Sinema Open Air, Berlin, on 30 June 2021
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Interview: Speaking with the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, about Sewing Borders, part of the exhibition “Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction”. 30 Nov 2020
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Exhibition: Exhibiting Sewing Borders, film and maps, at the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, part of “Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction”. Curated by Nat Muller. Opening 19 September 2020.
19 September 2020 – 3 January 2021
Book review: A review of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. métropolitiques journal, by Assaf Dahdah. 17 September 2020
Book review: A review of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. Journal of Borderlands Studies, by Misty Prigent. 11 February 2020
Book review: I am very happy to participate in “Reading Writing Quarterly”, an online Site-Writing platform by Jane Rendell.
Katja Hilevaara & Emily Orley read Mohamad Hafeda’s “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”, and Mohamad Hafeda reads Katja Hilevaara & Emily Orley’s “The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice”. March 2020
Workshop: Giving a presentation at "Art Activisms Research Workshop" at Birmingham City University, on 5 March, 2020. Organised by Anthony Downey.
Symposium: Organised 'Practising Displacement', a half day symposium at the Leeds School of Architecture
Book launch: "Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon", at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London.
Podcast: An interview in Arabic on the use of art processes to activate public spaces, Thmanyah Podcast.
Lecture: "Social playground", part of Tanween festival on Play, Ithra, Saudi Arabia.
Workshop: Febrik's workshop "Public Play Practices" part of Tanween festival on Play, Ithra, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
The 4 days workshop worked with a group of local designers and architects in Dammam to explore public play practices and produce an archive of public play.