The Fire These Times Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
In this rerun of episode 131, Elia is joined by Dr Yafa El Masri to talk about her paper “72 Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones: Lebanon’s “Permanently Temporary” Palestinian Refugee Camps” which she presented at the 2022 Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice summer school in Coimbra, Portugal, where we met.
Dr El Masri spoke from first hand experience of commoning in "permanently temporary" spaces as she is herself a Palestinian refugee who was born and raised in Borj El Brajneh refugee camp in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Mentions and Recommendations:
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Sornit
Eleven Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exiles edited by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Sornit
Credits:
Host(s): Elia Ayoub | Guest (s): Yafa El Masri | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub