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Hiba Bou Akar

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6 months

Happening now: Columbia and Barnard Faculty stand in support of our students @Columbia @BarnardCollege

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7 layers of barricades, an emptied and locked down campus, to protect @Columbia *from* its own students and faculty.

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Happening Now: Our campus has been invaded by NYPD. @columbia

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11 months

I confessed to my students today that 41 years ago, I, like the Palestinian children they are watching on their phone screens, was a child under the rubble from an Israeli attack. Weeping for all the children under the rubble, esp. those who won't make it out alive to speak up.

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5 months

Happening Now: The People’s Graduation 2024 at Columbia and Barnard. On display is the beautiful power of solidarity, love, student movement, faculty & staff organizing power in the fight for justice and humanity ❤️✊🏽 @Columbia @BarnardCollege

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“Your people are my people. Your people are mine” One of the most beautiful, meaningful & hopeful ceremonies I have ever attended 💜 @Columbia @BarnardCollege

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6 months

My employer, @Columbia , decided in the name of 'safety' to lock us faculty out while inviting NYPD police to occupy campus. With that, Columbia achieved the end goal of managerial education (what some call the neoliberal university), a university without professors.

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6 months

Columbia and Barnard Faculty getting ready to protect the students @Columbia @BarnardCollege

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6 months

Never I’ve ever imagined that I would see something like this. And this says a lot coming from a Lebanese. In tears. @Columbia

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1 year

"What is Settler Colonialism?" Four teach-ins co-organized by the Post-Conflict Cities Lab + students from the MS and PhD programs at GSAPP. Hybrid event: in person and on Zoom. Links to register to attend on Zoom in the comment section below.

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4 years

My wonderful urban planning students @ColumbiaGSAPP & I have assembled an annotated reading list on: Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of COVID-19 <>. Our hope it'll be a collective effort “living document,"so pls. feel free to circulate/read/use/add.

Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of Covid-19

Pandemic Urbanism Praxis in the Time of Covid-19 A Collective Effort Draft: April 22, 2020 https://bit.ly/pandemicurbanism Video: Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of COVID-19 This open access...

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6 months

Faculty at @Columbia and @BarnardCollege stand in solidarity with our students who are speaking truth to power, and firmly against the militarization of our campus, and the police harassment of our student protestors.

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6 months

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

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6 months

Last session of my “Spatial Exclusion and Planning” class with amazing students and colleagues at the students’ “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” @Columbia ✊🏽🤍 @ColumbiaGSAPP @gsapp_planning

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11 months

Architects and Planners Against Apartheid: If you are in urban planning, architecture, urban design, or historic preservation, please sign and share. Thank you 🤍

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6 months

Happening now: Teach-in on history of imperialism in east Asia. This encampment is one of the most impressive spatial and political organizations I have been to. These students are outstanding organizers. 🤍

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6 months

Happening now: “NYPD, Why are you in riot gear, there is no riot here” @Columbia

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4 years

Mark your calendars for this exciting conference that I've had the pleasure to organize: Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning on March 12 @ 9:30 am-7pm EST. A dream lineup in 4 panels (see below)! @ColumbiaGSAPP <> 1/5

Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning - Columbia GSAPP

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

Tested positive for COVID— while double vaxxed +booster shot. What it feels like? Like hit by a train. “Mild symptoms” are not that mild. Take your booster pls — coz I’m wondering if this is mild, I don’t want to know what’s not! #OmicronVarient

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Hiba Bou Akar

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4 years

Teaching a new course on "Cities in Crisis," examining urbanism & planning in cities dealing w "natural" disasters, wars, economic crises & racial violence etc.- while interrogating the use of the term “crisis." If you have readings to suggest, would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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6 months

Happening now: Awaiting the police and keeping calm with the legendary Fairouz playing on the lawn. Students to the university: أهواك بلا أمل ❤️ (love you without hope). @Columbia

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6 years

My book is finally out! I am grateful for all the love and support I received along the way. If you are in NYC, please join me for the book launch event on Thursday, October 4th @ 6:30 pm, 114 Avery Hall, Columbia University. #forthewaryettocome @stanfordpress

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4 years

In 10 days: “Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning” conference, March 12 @ 9:30 am EST virtually. Join us. Open & free. Thanks to the 1,100 people already registered! 🤍 …. @ColumbiaGSAPP

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6 months

Statement from Concerned Faculty at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia in Support of Students @ColumbiaGSAPP @Columbia @gsapp_planning . For signatories: <>

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2 years

“Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict”: Please join us for what promises to be a wonderful interdisciplinary conference. Mark your calendars for Feb 16-17, 2023. Thanks to co-organizers @_maeljamal & Calvin Harrison & to @ColumbiaGSAPP @sofheyman @ColumbiaMEI @Columbia_MF .

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4 years

Our "Scholarly Mutual Aid" initiative connects researchers outside Lebanon with researchers, data analysts & translators etc in Lebanon. Goal: support young people in Lebanon by hiring them for research tasks that could be done remotely <>. Please circulate

Scholarly Mutual Aid for Lebanon

OVERVIEW This initiative aims to connect scholars and researchers in institutions outside Lebanon with scholars, researchers, editors, photographers, web designers, data analysts, and translators in...

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@hibabouakar

6 months

The most powerful and militarized police force in the world is being unleashed on the student protestors of @Columbia . Chilling sight.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

I grew up listening to Fairuz everyday. That's how my mom comforted two children thru years of civil war. I still run to Fairuz's voice when life is tough. Her voice is my shelter. Her smile today signaled to the child in me that things will be alright. Thank you, Fairuz♡

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

5 years

I’m honored and thrilled to receive the 2019 Nikkie Keddie Book Award. Thank you @MESA_1966 and the award selection committee for the recognition. #MESA2019

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5 years

Hiba Bou Akar (Columbia Univ.) wins the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award for her book, “For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers,” published with Stanford Univ. Press #MESA2019

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5 years

Honored that “For the War Yet to Come” has also won The 2019 Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropolgy. Humbled to learn that it’s the 1st time a non-anthropologist wins this award. Here I am FaceTiming into the awards ceremony at #AAACASCA yesterday thanks to the wonderful @eshawcrane 💙

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

1 year

Grateful for the intellectual generosity, tremendous support, and love that I have received from many of you on the way. It takes a village. All the love ❤️ #tenured @ColumbiaGSAPP @Columbia

Columbia GSAPP

@ColumbiaGSAPP

1 year

Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce that Hiba Bou Akar has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. @hibabouakar has taught within GSAPP's Urban Planning programs since 2017 and founded @gsappPCCL in 2018. Read more:

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3 years

Architecture and Urban Planning Organizations Stand in Solidarity for Palestine. Petition open to endorsement by schools, programs, departments & organizations by Architects and Planners Against Apartheid. Read the statement here, sign, & share: <>

Architecture and Urban Planning Organizations Stand in Solidarity for Palestine

We recognise that architecture and urban planning are both the means and the ends of Israeli settler colonialism and state terror. As architects and planners, it is our moral and ethical duty to...

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Hiba Bou Akar

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3 years

Job openings: Our Urban Planning program at Columbia is hiring 3 full‐time, open‐rank faculty: 2 positions in issues related to land use + infrastructure, public health + racial justice, and/or community development & housing. <>

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5 years

Heartbreaking to see the COVID19 pain in Italy, where I received the best healthcare in my life & I was only a guest. Last May, I found myself in an ER while visiting Milan. Conditioned by the cruel US health insurance system, I reached out to my insurance card to check in. /1/

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Hiba Bou Akar

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8 months

Join us online tomorrow (Feb 23) for a discussion on the urban question as it relates to Palestine, with an amazing group of people. "Life, apartheid and urbicide: Prospects and spaces of decolonial engagement for Palestine," at 7 pm GAZA, 12 pm EST, 9 am PST. Link below.

Alejandra Reyes

@AlejandraReyesC

8 months

Please join this conversation w/an incredible group of scholars & individuals preoccupied w/past & present struggles in the Middle East & beyond. The implications of the moment we find ourselves in are paramount for us to consider -

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1 year

The “greatest city of the world” New York City, the city of immigrants and so-called progressives, feels so alienating and hostile, oppressive and intimidating now. As an Arab, it doesn’t matter where you live in the US; you’ll always be living in the belly of the beast.

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1 year

Beirut this evening.

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2 years

Tomorrow: In-person + streaming online on Zoom.

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1 year

No amount of liberal white guilt will get me to vote for Biden. Never again. Let the Americans be ruled by Trump. Most of them pretty much deserve it. Shame.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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11 months

Sign by tomorrow, Nov. 20! Click link below to join over 2000 architects, planners, designers & urbanists who have signed thus far. We are still updating the signatories list; got delayed by a cyber attack, we provided a new link inside the form. Thank you 🤍 #APAA

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11 months

Architects and Planners Against Apartheid: If you are in urban planning, architecture, urban design, or historic preservation, please sign and share. Thank you 🤍

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4 years

Mark your calendars for this event on Beirut's recovery post August 4th explosion. In collaboration with a wonderful group of young Lebanese architects & planners; Our real hope for a better Lebanon. Date/Time: Nov. 12, 12-2 pm EST (7-9 pm Beirut time). Register on link below.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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2 years

من وقت ما نشر كتابي عن بيروت بالانكليزية وانا حابي انو يصير متوفر باللغة العربية ايمانا مني باهمية نشر ابحاثنا عن العالم العربي بلغتنا. صدر الكتاب اليوم بالعربية تحت عنوان "لِحرب مُنتظَرة تخطيط حدود بيروت" (دار الفرات) متوفر في معرض بيروت للكتاب والمكتبات. جزيل الشكر لفريق العمل.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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4 years

Lebanese diaspora: are we supposed to watch our families and friends in Lebanon go hungry and not do anything? Heartbreaking to see how these corrupt militias stole people’s past, present & futures and forced many of us out. How can we mobilize?

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4 months

These genocidal occupying tyrants are obsessed with taking Lebanon back to the “Stone Age.” I bet our Stone Age will be more humane than their high-tech soulless human killing machines.

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6 months

Viva Latino dad 😍...And I miss you, Dad. If you were alive, I know you would have said the same thing. I hope you are in a better place, not watching a genocide unfold ❣️

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6 months

Sent this video to my dad of this Latino dad supporting his daughter at the protests and he replied ‘Viva Latino’ that’s right

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4 years

Thanks to everyone who reached out following Beirut's horrific explosion. The pain is unspeakable. We're heartbroken, & I have no words to say or share. I am actually at a complete loss. But I share here a letter my brother @elbouakar wrote after he saw his apartment destroyed:

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Hiba Bou Akar

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6 months

Appalled by @Columbia 's descent into a police state, arresting students speaking up against g.e.n.o.c.i.d.e. Yesterday's congressional hearing with CU's president was equally appalling; Middle Eastern & pro Palestine faculty are silenced & intimidated. Academic Freedom is dead.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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4 years

What a privilege it was to organize this event & hear from such an inspiring lineup of scholars, and an engaged audience. Thank you for attending. Much appreciation to @ananyaUCLA @FreeBlackTX @kiangoh @maliniranga @XazaarAdjame @AkiraDrake @LibbyJPorter &

Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

In 10 days: “Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning” conference, March 12 @ 9:30 am EST virtually. Join us. Open & free. Thanks to the 1,100 people already registered! 🤍 …. @ColumbiaGSAPP

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4 years

My @gsapp_planning students & I provide in this video an overview of the "Pandemic Urbanism Praxis in the Time of Covid-19" reading list that we assembled & discuss its making into a collaborative living document: . Reading list: .

Pandemic Urbanism: Praxis in the Time of COVID-19

A conversation between Professor Hiba Bou Akar and urban planning students on their collectively developed pandemic urbanism reading list. On March 20, 2020...

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11 months

Fourth and last teach-in of the semester on "What is Settler Colonialism" is on Refusal. This Friday, Dec. 8 at 12 pm at Columbia GSAPP. In Person, at Buell 300 N. For online access, register at the link in the comment. Will keep you posted about future events in the spring.

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@hibabouakar

3 years

Looking forward to the conversation with @XazaarAdjame and @EricKlinenberg about Urban Futures of the Pandemic, moderated by Bruno Carvalho & Diane Davis. On Monday, May 3 at 12 EST on Zoom. Open to the public. @HarvardMellon

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6 months

“Bold, Beautiful, Arrested”. Love these kids. 😍

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7 months

Outstanding City Debates, 20th edition. Always an intellectual and political feast 🤍 thanks @BeirutUrbanLab @mona_fawaz @mona_fawaz . One of the Palestine panels with @jabarysalamanca @kmrabie & Maha Samman moderated by Jens Hanssen.

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2 years

The Post-Conflict Cities Lab @ColumbiaGSAPP is hosting a graduate student conference on "Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions," Feb 16-17,2023 (in person). Conf. brief + form to submit abstract here:

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Hiba Bou Akar

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3 years

Honored and excited to be giving the 2022 IJURR Plenary Lecture at the AAGs, chaired by the amazing @nik_theodore . Thanks to @IJURResearch board, @lizaweinstein @urbancommune for the invitation. Feb 28 @ 3:40 pm EST virtual.

IJURR.org

@IJURResearch

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The #AAG2022 IJURR Plenary Lecture ‘Planning for the War Yet to Come,’ will be presented by @hibabouakar , and chaired by @nik_theodore . More info, including a registration link, can be found here:

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2 years

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict conference, Feb 16-17: Extending abstract submission to Nov. 4 & encouraging submissions from graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows & early career scholars <>. Looking exciting so far!

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2 years

And we are started. #middleeasturbanismbeyondconflict @Columbia

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5 years

Like many of you, I just held my first online class (with my phd student as a guest). I’m so proud of how my @ColumbiaGSAPP students handled this pedagogical shift. & I thought it’d be great if people could share ideas/practices to make online classrooms engaging. In solidarity.

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4 years

Zoom life has many drawbacks but its ability to collapse geographies of knowledge exchange is exciting: today, my students loved engaging w @mona_fawaz about her work on Syrian refugees in Lebanon & last week w @kiangoh on climate change. A pandemic silver lining I'm keeping.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

استمتعت بالمشاركة مبارح بجلسة النقاش عن الطائفية ببرنامج عشرين30. شكر كبير ل @AlbertKostanian لطرح مواضيع مهمة بطريقة معمّقة وشكر خاص لفريق الاعداد بالاخص @JoelleBoutros . @LBCI_NEWS @Vision2030LBCI @ColumbiaGSAPP

LBCI TV

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3 years

الأستاذة المساعدة في كليّة الدراسات العليا للهندسة المعمارية والتخطيط والحفظ في جامعة كولومبيا – نيويورك هبة بو عكر تحدّثت عن "الحرب المنتظرة" فماذا قصدت؟ #عشرين_30 @hibabouakar @LBCILebanon @AlbertKostanian

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3 years

Excited to host Fadi Bardawil to discuss his outstanding book, "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation," with @JElyachar & @ElleniZeleke on Monday May 10, 1:30-3 pm EST on Zoom (8:30-10 pm Beirut time). Registration link below.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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2 years

وداعا يا بابا. لروحك السلام يا غالي يا حنون يا صاحب الابتسامة الدائمة. فراقك صعب يا حبيبي. Goodbye my love, goodbye dad. Dad was equally an intellectual man and man of the land-— few people are like him. What a loss. Love you baba.

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3 years

My essay on (post)pandemic urban futures and their contradictions in @SocietyandSpace . Thanks to @OswinNatalie and @CharmaineSChua .

Society & Space

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"The futures of cities worldwide are currently being contested, and calls to 'imagine urban futures' have come to mean reimagining life in relation to a range of ongoing and anticipated crises including COVID-19." More in today's essay by @hibabouakar

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5 years

Saddened by our planning community’s loss of Prof. Judith Innes @UCBerkeley . I’ll never forget Judith’s kindness & brilliance, and the fiery debates we had about planning, communicative rationality & complexity in her classrooms. Judith, you will be dearly missed. Fly high ♥️

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5 years

Before heading to #LebaneseRevolution in Beirut yesterday, I went hiking in a gorgeous area of Shouf -Dmit, Sair Jbel & Dibiyi- eaten up by fires a few weeks ago. Scenes alternated bet. breathtaking beauty & depressing views & smells of burnt trees. A reminder. #لبنان_ينتفض

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In case you’re not aware, Lebanon is currently facing a terrifying economic situation with extreme levels of hunger. Several have committed suicide because they couldn’t feed their families. Many lost their jobs. Banks refuse to give people their money. Given that /1/

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4 years

Excited to host Rosie Bsheer (Harvard University) to discuss her outstanding new book "Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia," with discussants @shereneseikaly (UCSB) & Fadi Bardawil (Duke). Tues. 03/23 at 12 EST on Zoom. To register: ...

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1 year

Ashamed of how helpless I feel. Is it possible that humanity will not be able to stop this brutal and cruel killing machine? We are just going to watch a *g e n o c i d e* happen while crying behind screens?

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5 months

If you are interested and available to teach History and Theory in Urban Planning next fall in NYC, please get in touch asap.

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4 years

For scale purposes: The Ever Given in Beirut’s Golf Club —a privatized lavish green area for the Lebanese rich in south Beirut’s impoverished neighborhoods. The club “rents” 225,000 sqm of public land for 1100 LL (11 cents)/year! Thanks @en_dash .

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I took 10 minutes out of my life to create a @glitch app that lets you wedge the Ever Given anywhere you want in the world. Here it is stuck in Boston Harbor.

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Some times it feels unbearable to bear witness to all the cruelty in the world, and to process all the pain around. What a monstrous unjust world we have created.

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1 year

Please join us on Friday Nov 17 for an in-person “rapid response” event on “The Migrants ‘Crisis’ in New York City: Immigration, Asylum, and the Right to the City” that I’m co-organizing with masters and doctoral students from @ColumbiaGSAPP . 114 Avery Hall, Columbia University.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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4 years

Celebrated the graduation of my thesis advisees, a phenomenal group from across the globe—Colombia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippine/Canada, Sweden, Tunis, & USA—who produced outstanding work despite the pandemic. Congratulations everyone! You give me hope.💙🎊

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6 months

Here is our Columbia University Urban Planning Program statement signed by many faculty, students, staff & alumni about recents events on @Columbia campus. @gsapp_planning @ColumbiaGSAPP

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6 months

Statement signed by numerous Columbia University Urban Planning Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni on recent events & the ongoing crisis on our campus.

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6 months

The aftermath.

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5 years

Convinced that the illegal disasterous #Costabrava landfill is a future real estate project to give south Beirut and its political parties a “downtown” (sectarian logic of profit distribution)— poisoning people while stealing more of the public coastline. Pic from #DohaAramoun .

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5 years

Reflecting on my recent visit to #Tripoli : hard to square the extreme poverty in the old city with the fact that Tripoli has the highest no. of Lebanese millionaires; their pictures cluttering the city & comfortably towering over the poverty of thousands.

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6 months

Today: “Sleepless 4 Palestine”

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@hibabouakar

3 years

After the recent violent events in Tayyouneh, Beirut several people contacted me about Chapter 2 of my book that is basically about the production of sectarian geographies in the area, so made it available for download here: . DM if you have questions.

Bou Akar Chapter 2 The Doubleness of Ruins

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

8 months

My first time in Albuquerque and New Mexico to speak about Beirut, Gaza and Middle East Urbanism. If you are in ABQ, please pass by . @UNM

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

5 years

On a lighter note: part of me (1-2 cells max) is grateful for the training Lebanese militias provided us during a 15-yr civil war; a long course on disaster preparedness. Food shortages & feelings of dread are so familiar. Missing from their curriculum tho were hand sanitizers.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

Thanks @SocietyandSpace @CharmaineSChua & Brian Jefferson for this amazing book forum. In awe of the organizer’s generosity @eshawcrane . Grateful for the thought-provoking commentaries by @asher_ghertner @SaraFregonese , Mona Atia & Federico Pérez. I respond by reflecting on hope.

Society & Space

@SocietyandSpace

4 years

From abandoned postwar ruins to patterns of land acquisition, @hibabouakar 's "For the War Yet to Come" shows the underlying alignments between everyday urban transformations and shifting sectarian fault lines in Beirut. More in our latest review forum.

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Hiba Bou Akar

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5 years

Going from Beirut’s periphery #DohaAramoun to join the uprising in #MartyrsSquare yesterday, which took 2 hrs due to blockades, I experienced exhilarating solidarity. Protestors showed me side roads, helped me navigate thru burning tires, etc. Love is in the air❤️#لبنان_ينتفض

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

/1/ اليوم يصادف مرور ١٧ عاما على أوّل رحلة لي إلى الولايات المتحدة بهدف الدراسة. لم أتخّيل حينها أن أصير مغتربة. كان هدفي في ذلك الوقت تطوير معرفتي والعودة إلى لبنان. ومع أنّ السنين مرّت بين ماجستير ودكتوراه، إلّا انّني تشبثّت بفكرة العودة للعيش في لبنان يوماً ما.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

6 years

Excited for our just-launched Post-Conflict Cities Lab at @ColumbiaGSAPP ! Thanks to @FordFoundation for supporting our inaugural project in the MENA region.

Columbia GSAPP

@ColumbiaGSAPP

6 years

Columbia GSAPP is excited to announce the launch of the new Post-Conflict Cities Lab led by @hibabouakar ! Learn more about the lab and its inaugural project supported by the @FordFoundation :

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

Marked the 2nd anniversary of the pandemic in NYC by finishing this needlepoint that I started when everything was shuttered down on March 12 2020. And I *just* realized that I was stitching a landscape farthest possible from the terror of living COVID-19 in NYC at that time ❤️

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

I was looking forward to hosting Fadi Bardawil in conversation with @JElyachar & @ElleniZeleke to discuss his excellent book: Revolution and Disenchantment on 3/30. We'll be postponing due to Columbia University's Graduate Students strike. Hope to reconvene soon.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

5 years

/4/ I wake up everyday thinking of these amazing people and hope they are doing well ♥️— And no wonder Italy is trying to save its residents while the US is getting ready to sacrifice millions of people on the altar of stocks & profit.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

في هذه المقالة، اتطّرق لمعضلة إيجاد الأمل في مساحات موسومة بالنزاع، عن ثورة 17 أكتوبر في لبنان، مظاهرات "حياة السود مهمة" في نيويورك وإنفجار بيروت في 4 آب. شكراً @SocietyandSpace لفتح المجال امام بلورة النقاش عن كتابي، @jadaliyya ، وهاشم هاشم للترجمة.

البحث عن الأمل

لزمنٍ طويل، شغلني سؤال الأمل. وعند التحدث عن كتابي بانتظار حربٍ مقبلة: تخطيط بيروت وضواحيها (2018) الذي فصّلتُ فيه طُرق التنظيمات الدينية في استخدام التخطيط أداةً للنزاع كما للسّلم في مدينة بيروت...

www.jadaliyya.com

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

2 years

Next week Feb 16-17: Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict conference. In person, free & open to the public at East Gallery, Buell Hall @columbia . Streamed online via Zoom webinar (register for link). Details here: @ColumbiaGSAPP @sofheyman @ColumbiaMEI

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict - Columbia GSAPP

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

www.arch.columbia.edu

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

Check out our initiative for Beirut: Architects for Beirut presents a collection of 100+ original architectural drawings & artworks donated to fundraise for Beirut following the devastating blast at the city’s port in August 2020. Link: <> Beirut ❤️

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

Finding forgotten places in unexpected things: This morning, I peeled an apple from a NYC farmer's market, smell took me back to 1989 Tonsberg, Norway (an apple orchid in the fall) where I spent 1 yr as a war-displaced child.A powerful 30 yr time-capsule since I never re-visited.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

6 months

Helicopters have been hovering over campus and Morningside neighborhood non-stop, for almost 10 days. This constant noise is unbearable. Plus it is so triggering for someone who grew up in a war zone— unsurprisingly under the terrifying sounds of Israeli warplanes. @Columbia

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

Looking for suggestions for urbanism/urban planning podcasts to share with my students. I would be happy to compile and share the list back here. Thanks.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

Lucky to have the brilliant @mona_fawaz review my book! And given the prohibitive cost of books in Lebanon at this time (priced in dollars), DM me if you are in Lebanon & would like access to the book.

Mona Fawaz

@mona_fawaz

3 years

My book review for @hibabouakar 's amazing book it out in Planning Theory, check it out, but much more important... Check out this great book about planning, politics, space, and Beirut if you still haven't! A must read:

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

1 year

People speak of hell in afterlife. What is more hell-ish than this? Watching thousands of people mostly children being killed without being able to do anything— while paying taxes for the bombs they are being killed with? That’s my version of hell. Hell is here and now.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

5 years

Last night: from #Khalde in Beirut’s south-east periphery, a salute to protestors in #nabatiyeh & #sour . And I never imagined in my life, Khalde’s roundabout —where it is impossible to even walk because of cars— would become a beautiful public space to dance, chant, and meet ❤️

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

Clear by now:100 million+ voted for white supremacy_in the shape of Trump. Complicit r wanna-be-whites: many Arab-Americans, South Asians & Latinos, who wanna wash away their immigration history & kick down the ladder for folks like them, crossing borders looking for better life.

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

3 years

Excited for my first in-person talk since the pandemic’s onset. Masked but still exciting :)

UPenn Anthropology

@UPennAnth

3 years

This Wednesday @ 12pm! Ruins & Reconstruction Roundtable with @hibabouakar @WeitzmanSchool @ColumbiaGSAPP

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

5 years

Urban planning job opening ⁦ @ColumbiaGSAPP ⁩. I’m on the search committee, feel free to DM me if you have any inquiries. “Tenured/Tenure-Track/Professional Practice Professor in Urban Planning (Open Rank)”

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Hiba Bou Akar

@hibabouakar

4 years

My brilliant cousin @HayyanReslan , a computer scientist, is at the forefront of a youth revolution in organic #farming in #Lebanon . “We can’t survive if we don’t sustainably produce the food we consume,” he told me. He’ll start offering soon weekly baskets from his farm. Proud.

Hayyan Abou Reslan

@HayyanReslan

4 years

Last year, I started farming organically in Ras El Maten, #Lebanon , while simultaneously programming full time during the day in Beirut. A way out of Lebanon’s economic crisis? #food #revolution & return to #farming towards food security. The youth must be involved. #لبنان_ينتفض

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