Pursuing a PhD degree

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Fabris 

Research Statement: 

I am the granddaughter of Palestinian farmers, freedom fighters and refugees, with roots from the river to the sea. Living on the stolen homelands of xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Peoples since childhood, I am a diasporic Palestinian whose political education comes from transnational solidarity building and community organizing efforts. With academic training in Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies and Geography, my research hopes to contribute to the longstanding tradition of subversive knowledge production that takes seriously Palestinian liberation as a cause for all peoples committed to the collective struggle of upending the imperial world order. In this vein, my MA thesis foregrounded the intellectual legacy of martyred Palestinian thinker Ghassan Kanafani to study the Zionist imagined geography. My doctoral research builds on this work by exploring Kanafani’s studies of Palestinian resistance literature in relation to developing a Palestinian decolonial geographies framework.