EUME
2012/ 2013

Yazid Anani

Spatial Change and the Construction of Palestinian National Identity

Yazid Anani is an Assistant Professor in Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at Birzeit University, Ramallah. He is the current head of the Academic Council of the International Academy of Art Palestine. His work and research interests focus on colonial and post-colonial spaces as well as themes in architecture, neoliberalism and power. Anani received his doctorate degree in Spatial Planning from the TU Dortmund, Germany in 2006. He is active in a number of collectives and projects, such as Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR), RIWAQ Biennale and Ramallah Syndrome. He has curated and co-curated several projects, such as Palestinian Cities: Visual Contention, Ramallah—the fairest of them all?, Between Ebal and Gerzim, and has produced individual and collaborative critical projects mainly related to public space, such as Al-Riyadh and Urban Cafés. He’s currently the curator of the 4th edition of Cities Exhibition of Birzeit University Museum, Jericho—beyond the celestial and terrestrial. Anani has lectured worldwide and has taken part in many conferences and seminars related to the issues of urban transformation and neocolonialism.

Spatial Change and the Construction of Palestinian National Identity

As a EUME Fellow in Berlin, he will work on a project entitled: “Spatial Change and the Construction of Palestinian National Identity”.