Isabela Serhan

Researcher at the @BeirutUrbanLab @AUB_Lebanon

[Isabela Serhan @SerhanIsabela]

Thrilled to see this piece online!
Reflecting on this experience with @mona_fawaz was as empowering as going down to the streets together and sharing visions for a better future!
Many thanks to @lizaweinstein @AeshnaB at @IJURResearch

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

.@mona_fawaz & @SerhanIsabela explore how the uprising that rocked Lebanon in October 2019 empowered multiple transgressive practices. https://t.co/jWCD935RM4

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

The Beirut Urban Lab is releasing the Nabatieh Built and Natural Environment Database, an open, georeferenced platform that gathers data on the built-up fabric, in addition to social, environmental, and economic information in the Greater Nabatieh Area.

For more information: https://t.co/A0FeQIsvkv

@IDRC_CRDI @TPILebanon

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

With Beyond the Grid, the Beirut Urban Lab launches a first reading of Municipal Beirut’s Hybrid Energy Infrastructures. Learn more by checking the webpost here: https://t.co/nUI7WK3aPy

And read the storymap on this link: https://t.co/XRINoJRNHJ

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Our book talks are back! Join our book launch and research talk with co-editor and author Nadi Abu Saada, in collaboration with Palestine Week

Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence

Thursday April 24, 2025 at 5:30PM
Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), @AUB_Lebanon

with discussants: Jad Tabet and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

More Info: https://t.co/j6ac9Y4Tdu

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

City Debates 2025 Detailed Program out now!

Join us and our speakers on April 14–16 at the Architecture Lecture Hall @AUB_Lebanon for an interrogation of critical cartographies and their impact on our world today. The conference coincides with AUB's second Palestine Week and includes several interventions focusing on Palestine.

For more information: https://t.co/WU5Ab7Z7pq

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Save the Date 📌
For the 21st edition of City Debates "Co-map, Re-map, Un-map: Collective, Exploratory, and Radical Cartographies”

April 14 – 16, 2025 at Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), AUB

Join us for an outstanding showcase of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working in mapping, data visualization, and spatial representation, and a reflection on how these shape our understanding of cities, geographies, and environments.

Stay tuned for the program coming soon!

[Bayan @BayanPalestine]

من غزة سلامٌ لبيروت،
قلوبنا ملانة فرح لنجاتكم قد م هي ملانة وجع على حالنا.
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[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

That thing that binds indigenous people to their land. Makes 100s of thousands of Lebanese make their way back to their destroyed villages in the the South from the early hours of this morning. That makes Palestinians stay in northern Gaza despite the slaughter. The alien settlers from Poland, Belarus, Brooklyn will never get it.

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

44 thousand homes are empty in Beirut but none to spare for the displaced? The Beirut Urban Lab argues for a public authority to recover abandoned buildings as temporary housing for displaced families.

Read more
https://t.co/XbTbmjVQOV

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Since October 17th, 10% of Tyre's built environment, amounting to around 1,100 buildings, has received evacuation threats.

Read more on Mapping Israeli Announced Strikes on Lebanon ⬇️ https://t.co/MbCyvqWXHf

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Mapping Israel’s terror on South Beirut.

109 “evacuation orders” for over 160 buildings in a month have targeted residential and commercial urban neighborhoods.

Read More on – https://t.co/4NmnlsoJEI

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Mapping Israel’s terror on South Beirut

99 “evacuation orders” for over 150 buildings in a month have targeted residential and commercial urban neighborhoods.

Read More on -https://t.co/4NmnlsoJEI

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

As part of tracking the urbicide in Gaza, BUL is launching ‘People and Places’ map documenting some of the disruptions of socio spatial practices, waves of forced displacement as well as acts of everyday resistance by Gazans.

For More ➡️https://t.co/4pgcKmxtva

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Our latest data records the greatest number of strikes from Lebanon on a single day with the deepest average distance into Occupied Palestine. The escalation on July 6 came in response to the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander by Israel three days earlier.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

My letter to the 2024 Athens World Poetry Festival after canceling my invitation:

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is Mosab Abu Toha and this email is about the shocking news that my invitation to take part in the 2024 Athens World Poetry Festival got canceled. This news was relayed to me via Dino on Facebook messenger.
I got the official invitation from Irini Papakyriakou, Artistic Director of the 10th AWPF, in February 2024 before Marie-Laure got it touch about the logistics of traveling to and staying in Athens during the Festival. There was no mention in the letter of including an israeli poet in my event. This can never be expected to take place, especially during such a horrific time for me and my people.
I respect Dino as a friend and as a publisher of my book in Greek, but I think I deserve an official letter from you as an organizer of the festival, the same way I got an official letter inviting me. My participation in a world festival shall never be contingent upon the presence an israeli guest with me. There is no logic about this, to bring a poet from a country that destroyed my home, kidnapped and tortured me, killed my friends and students, and unashamedly continues to do so. It’s against poetry to prevent a poet like me from sharing the story of me and of my people during such dark times.
Instead of providing the stage for poets who can speak about the destruction of their homeland over 76 years, instead of inviting poets who wrote poems about their wounds and their experiences of being displaced, kidnapped, and later exiled, you are disinviting a voice that has been screaming verse under the rubble of his house, under gunfire, while blindfolded and handcuffed, and while weeping for his suffering and bleeding family and friends and neighbors for more than nine months.
You have insulted poetry. You have insulted your festival. You have insulted humanity.

Mosab Abu Toha

P.S.

I have just seen your Facebook post. So the israeli poet canceled her participation and then you canceled mine, as if my poetry has no meaning except when read next to her?
And then, do you know that she was born in Yaffa, the city from which my four grandparents were expelled from in 1948. I should be born there. My father and mother and siblings too.
I should be writing about Yaffa’s oranges and not about the rubble of my home in Gaza or about my wounds and pain.
Maybe I wouldn’t be the poet the world needs to hear.

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Join us TODAY at the Dialogues on Housing in Lebanon where we will be launching the Beirut Housing Vacancy report “Housing Vacancy in Beirut 2023: Drivers and Trends.”

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

A new analysis of over 7,000 incidents in the West Bank reveals the dire need for greater scrutiny of settler-colonial violence across all of Palestine.

Read the report on the following Link: https://t.co/7qLQRByePn

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Over the last two weeks, Hezboallah struck its new farthest strike from the southern border (49 kms) during a drone countering operation, with Israel following suit by targeting the City of Baalbak (88kms)

More ➡️ https://t.co/kujUcY7NLu

[تالا @AlfoqahaT]

Hi Professor! Current Harvard Law student here & Palestinian. Hate to take the bait, but I do want to breakdown why this article is inaccurate & intellectually dishonest. Thread: