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