Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri

The Fire These Times

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