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Danna Masad is currently a doctoral researcher at Tampere University and part of the project 'Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence' (HOMCRI). Her background is in architecture with extensive experience in architectural practice and several years of experience in teaching architecture and design at Birzeit University. Her current research examines home-making and un-making through the practice of shepherding in the divided and segregated territory of the occupied West Bank and under conditions of prolonged violence and uncertainty. Her research interest crosses disciplinary boundaries of architecture, political geography, critical geography, political ecology, landscape studies and Indigenous studies. She has served on the board of directors of several Palestinian institutions including Birzeit University’s Institute for Women Studies, Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Center and Sakiya, Art, Science and Agriculture. She is part of the Palestine Research Group and the Space and Political Agency Research Group at Tampere University.
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Masad, D. & Dajani, M. (Forthcoming) “ʼinjaṣa Cisterns as Vessels of Knowledge: How Palestinian Traditional Building Knowledge Endures” in Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence, edited by Nadi Abusaada and Wesam Al Asali. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2025