Oblique, Critical Conservation

10/28/2025

We are delighted to announce the release of OBL/QUE issue 6, « Palestine: Resilience, Resistance, and Sumud, » co-edited by Palestinian architect and professor , , and Faris Itum (assistant editor).

This issue centers Palestinian voices sharing their stories, first-hand experiences, and strategies of resistance facing the pervasive and systematic erasure of tangible and intangible heritage by the Israeli State.

We have put this issue together with the goal to give more visibility to Palestinian voices at a time of increasing cernsorship and misinformation to raise awareness of the ongoing destruction but also to highlight outstanding local preservation efforts.

The issue addresses questions or memory and representation, praxis, and self-determination.

You can download the file from the link on our bio.

We hope that you enjoy the publication!

10/28/2025

10/23/2025

Meet the authors of the upcoming issue 6 of OBL/QUE titled « Palestine: Resilience, Resistance, and Sumud » where Palestinian scholars and practitioners reflect on the ongoing destruction but also on the efforts to resists erasure through remembering, preserving and documenting their heritage, and centering reconstruction in their self determination.

1. Dima Srouji
2. Sandi Hilal (DAAR)
3. Nadi Abusaada
4. Nuha Dandis (HRC)
5. Amal Abualhawa (Tawaoon)
6. Aya Tahhan (Riwaq)
7. Mahmoud Al Balawi (IWAN)
8. Issam Juha (CCHP)
9. Luma Qumsieh Khoury (CCHP)
10. Alessandra Gola
11. Abed Kittana
12. Faiq Mari

Thank you for your contributions from the editorial team of OBL/QUE 6, Rana Abughannam (guest editor), Natalia Escobar Castrillon (founder and co-editor), and Faris Itum (assistant editor).

The issue will be available by the end of this week, stay tuned!