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Nama’a Abdullah Qudah

440 pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-909-2

Published: 2024-09-09

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71690/abe.2024.13

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In Search of Al Wehdat Camp A Study of Paths, Edges and Walls and their Production of Transient Territories in Palestinian Refugee Camps

Nama’a Abdullah Qudah
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Al Wehdat Camp, like all Palestinian refugee camps, was built in response to Al Nakba as a space of temporary refuge to generations of Palestinian refugees who were uprooted from their homes. In this research I have conceptualized home as a multiscalar territory that exists in different places and time intervals all at once through a spatio-temporal simultaneity. This produces Al Wehdat Camp as a transient territory existing here and there, now and then, at home and in exile. Through the...