Nora Akawi

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Nora Akawi

Nora Akawi

@NoraAkawi

architecture research & teaching / The Cooper Union

New York, NY Katılım Haziran 2012
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Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي
Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass. I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed. One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.” This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it. From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own. We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution. Photos taken by me, full report incoming.
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Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah@AliAbunimah·
I spoke with Iranian scholar @Helyeh_Doutaghi in Tehran as the US-Israeli bombing intensifies. Even people who opposed the government are now rallying together. "Our destiny is shared with Palestinians," she told me. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=vno9lK…
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Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah@AliAbunimah·
🚨 I just spoke with @NerdeenKiswani after the FBI foiled a plot to kill her. The suspect allegedly planned to flee to Israel after carrying it out. It follows years of threats and harassment, but Kiswani says she won't be silenced. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=LbYW53…
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susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى
Dear Fam, I'm excited to tell you about my first children's book. I decided to self publish this one; so, for now, it's only available to buy from my website, and only in the US. There's a magic part of the moon called Al-Qassam, Palestinians will use its magic moondust to get free, and free the rest of the world too (from the people and their affiliates who stole Palestine and rob/oppress other countries). Because, the only life worth living, is a life in service of others. susanabulhawa.com/books/palestin…
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oمar@jabarysalamanca·
The board of the Journal of Architectural Education resigns in response to ACSA's decision to cancel the Fall issue on Palestine and for firing its interim executive editor for failing to comply with the decision. Respect and solidarity! For background: shorturl.at/LkwNb
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Jehad Abusalim
Jehad Abusalim@JehadAbusalim·
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)...canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition about Palestine “This issue of the Journal..calls for reflections on this moment’s implications for design, research, & education in architecture"!
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“ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor” archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa-c…

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Gerard
Gerard@GerardDalbon·
The @WOLPalestine march is continuing tonight while hundreds are outrunning cops through the streets, now reconverging at Union Square after being split up. No arrests reported so far even though SRG continues threatening arrests for anyone off the sidewalk.
Gerard@GerardDalbon

The @WOLPalestine protest just started marching through the streets toward Times Square. NYPD quickly cracked down on the crowd and momentarily blocked them before pushing to the sidewalk. Protesters now continuing through Times Square amidst high police presence.

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oمar@jabarysalamanca·
Happy to join forces with @NoraAkawi @nickwestes and @ztsamudzi for this call for contributions on Palestine for the Journal of Architectural Education. Deadline for submissions: January 21, 2025, 5PM More infos: jaeonline.org/issue/fall-202… Illustration by Amal Al Nakhala
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Palestine Legal
Palestine Legal@pal_legal·
Palestine Legal supports Dr. Samia Henni, a professor at Cornell University! Dr. Henni’s office was broken into in early Sept 2022—meanwhile, Cornell has still not condemned the clearly politically motivated attack. 🔗 Read our full blog: bit.ly/PLSupportsSami… (link in bio)
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The Funambulist
The Funambulist@TheFunambulist_·
2/2 We enjoin people involved in architecture and related fields to add their signature to this letter to build momentum against this project. 200 people (and counting) already signed!
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The Funambulist
The Funambulist@TheFunambulist_·
1/2 We join our Palestinian friends who drafted this open letter to Chicago-based architects @KrueckandSexton demanding they withdraw from designing the Trump-initiated U.S. embassy building on Palestinian stolen land and in violation of international law thefunambulist.net/editorials/ope…
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة
Al-Shabaka الشبكة@AlShabaka·
At one point, the soldiers allegedly told the boys that their families had been arrested, and that if they didn’t confess to trying to steal from the settlers or to damaging their property, the soldiers would “beat them up.” ow.ly/JPsh50DX0aB
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Kinohi Nishikawa
Kinohi Nishikawa@kinohin·
Today at noon: DISPLACEMENT with @jasminemahmoud and @NoraAkawi. How do ritual and performance survive or subvert acts of displacement -- the ways in which architecture, urban space, and aesthetics produce dominating forms of national and racial identity?
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Mezna Qato
Mezna Qato@meznaqato·
Exile remakes futures and re-orders collectivity; it binds bodies and dreams. Everywhere everywhere the people demand the fall of the regime.
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