Tag Archives: colonialism

Libya as it was and as it will be

March 20, 2011 – 1:03 pm

Al Bayyadah is a town in Cyrenaica that was founded in 1938 and originally called D’Annunzio, after the famous Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio. These agricultural settlements were built around an architectural core formed by a church, an administrative building, and a section of the Fascist party, which functioned as space for events and public gatherings: “God, [...]

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Oush Graib Transitions

October 12, 2009 – 8:30 pm

A man scrambles up the wall of a derelict watchtower in the middle of a military camp wearing a wading waistcoat and carrying a tripod. He’s a ornithologist, and he goes to the abandoned Israeli military base of Oush Grab (Beit Sahour, Bethlehem region) to study birds migrating from Turkey to Egypt through Palestine. Since [...]

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The hands firmly in the soil

August 3, 2009 – 8:57 pm

I didn’t take any plane but I’m way jet-lagged. I glance across the Gilo checkpoint from the balcony of a luxury resort, and I can sample a view that encompasses a landscape going from the third world to the very first in a few kilometres. I arrived in West Jerusalem and started my exploration into [...]

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Spatial design as territorial control

June 23, 2009 – 8:05 pm

First foreign translation, in Italian, for Eyal Weizman’s book on the use of space as a tool to articulate power in the Occupied Territories.

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