Research Discussion: Aerial Imagery, Mapping & Palestine’s Colonial Landscape with Dr. Nadi Abusaada

Hearing Palestine hosts a Research Discussion on the technologies of flight and aerial photography in mapping Palestine in colonial context. We are joined by MIT Architecture Postdoctoral fellow Nadi Abusaada, who we are delighted to have back as one of UofT’s alumni from Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture. Visit our website for more on up-coming events: ... Panel description: Dr. Abusaada discusses his doctoral research in which he examines the history of urban transformation in modern Palestine through the advent of new notions and practices of civic governance and urban planning in the late 19th and early 20th century. His work focuses on the role of Palestinian actors in shaping these processes in their cities while working within, and against, the confines of the late Ottoman and British imperial regimes. About our Panelist: Nadi Abusaada is an architect, urbanist, and doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. He is al