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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, November 28, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00
  pm \n Sidney Smith Building, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room SS2098 
 \n\nSpeakers \nPostdoctoral Fellow Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, Hearing Palestine
 , University of Toronto \n\nDescription: \nSettler Time, Ruined Space: T
 racing Colonial Temporalities in JaffaAbstract This talk examines how ruin
 ation and demolition have become enduring features of Palestinian urban li
 fe, shaping distinct temporal experiences and modes of existence. Focusin
 g on the Palestinian city of Jaffa under Israeli rule, it discusses how p
 rolonged processes of dispossession and displacement generate layered temp
 oralities that intertwine material destruction with lived time. The analys
 is traces how Israeli planning and governance impose temporal frameworks o
 n Jaffa’s neighborhoods—rendering them “empty,” “frozen,” or “ahistorica
 l” spaces— as well as the Palestinians’ temporal experiences of waiting, 
 endurance, and the struggle to reclaim control over time. By situating Ja
 ffa’s ruins within broader discussions on settler colonialism and temporal
 ity, the talk addresses the persistence of frontiering as a continuing co
 lonial logic—one that endures through different actors, spatial forms, a
 nd infrastructures, including within territories that have already been s
 ubjected to settler-colonial domination.Bio Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem specialise
 s in political geography, with research interests that include indigenous
  geographies and temporalities, settler colonialism, neoliberal urbanism
 , and infrastructure, focusing on the Middle East, particularly Palesti
 ne. Her main research explores socio-political dimensions of infrastructur
 e in colonial settings— principally telecommunications and playgrounds—as 
 well as neoliberal planning under settler colonialism and the spatial-temp
 oral experiences of indigenous communities.For Zoom registration: https://
 utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/juwgyTfOSIum1japYd5nUA#/regist...The eve
 nt is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Hearing Palestine 
 Initiative.* See the event poster: November 28 Marmura Lecture \n\nCategor
 ies \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyGraduat
 e StudentsProspective StudentsStaffUndergraduate StudentsGeneral Public
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SUMMARY:Michael E. Marmura Lectures in Arabic Studies 2025-26: Yara Sa’di-I
 braheem
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events/michael-e-marmura-lectures-
 arabic-studies-2025-26-yara-sa%E2%80%99di-ibraheem
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