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Lama Shehadeh

Lama is an architect and urban planner who graduated from Cornell University. She currently works in planning for '48 Palestinian towns.

Urban Planning and the Struggle Against Israel's Spatial Domination — A view of Wadi Ara in 2020. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesRegional map of Nahariya, Acre Sub-District, Palestine, indicating present and planned land use; Survey of Palestine, 1941. Revised in 1942 to include new second-class roads (in blue, see legend) bypassing previous route through Palestinian villages. Map also includes Palestinian villages that were later depopulated (e.g., Ghabsiyye, Um Al Faraj, Kueikat, En Nahr and Al Kabri). [To view details, see the map’s Wikipedia page.] The Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, National Library of Israel.

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Urban Planning and the Struggle Against Israel's Spatial Domination

Located in Wadi Ara within the Green Line, Kufr Qara is a Palestinian town of 20,000 residents. Before the Nakba, its land spanned 28,000 dunums (roughly 7,000 acres), but today, Israel has left it with less than 8,000 dunums (fewer than 2,000 acres). The town

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