Architecture of Peace

The Right to an Urban History of Gaza, 1948-1993

Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat

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Miscellaneous
01 August 2025

21st century history: from c 2000 -

Gives Voice to Palestinians Whose Visions of the Future are Rooted in Gaza's Storied History, Revealing Urban Architecture in Gaza as a Highly Political Form of Cultural Production.

A Territory in Conflict?is a history of colonial and postcolonial development in modern Gaza. Drawing on rare archival material and personal accounts of professionals on the ground, it sheds new light on the enduring Israeli-Arab conflict through an exploration of urban architecture in Gaza as a political form of cultural production, and its entanglements with security, displacement and humanitarianism in the post-war era of 'economic peace.'

The Gaza Strip has long been blockaded behind popular theoretical conceptions. A Territory in Conflict calls for its liberation. Through in-depth archival materials and interviews, Fatina Abreek-Zubeidat queries the extent to which regional development practices-and their negation-played a role in Gaza's extensive contemporary deterioration. From an urban architecture perspective, blending humanitarianism, she problematizes mainstream theoretical approaches to development in the social sciences of geopolitics, peace, and conflict. Highlighting development's role in the formation of Palestine's national landscape, while addressing the ways in which Israeli and international actors advocated forms of progress and modernization untethered to the past.

AUTHOR: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat is assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the Tel Aviv University and head of the research lab Spaces-in-Transition.

69 b/w illustrations

By: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780822948452
ISBN 10: 0822948451
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat is assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the Tel Aviv University and head of the research lab Spaces-in-Transition.

Reviews for Architecture of Peace: The Right to an Urban History of Gaza, 1948-1993

In the depths and depravities of Gaza's devastation appears A Territory in Conflict. We should all adopt as our motto Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat's phrase that the past 'must be uncovered against its negation.' She has amply demonstrated the wisdom of these words through her steady gaze and her passionate commitment to deep research, all in the most difficult and urgent of circumstances.--Mark Crinson, Birkbeck, University of London