The Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative and the CMES Middle East Forum are pleased to present
Salem Al-Qudwa, RCPI Fellow and Architect in conversation with Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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Salem Al Qudwa will showcase his work focusing on community and people with an emphasis on ethics, social injustice and architecture in conflict zones such as the Gaza Strip. He will also introduce his work on gender and in-between spaces exploring barriers, exploitation, and the relationship of widowed women to space and architecture.
Salem Al Qudwa is a 2021-22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace at the Religion and Public Life Program, Harvard Divinity School. An award-winning architect and university lecturer, Salem explores everyday architecture as a resource for positive social transformation. His project is to design and articulate a model for the reconstruction of communities devastated by conflict. By recognizing the agency and social responsibility of architects, he wants to confront conventional attitudes surrounding residential reconstruction in Gaza by creating a nurturing and safe environment for women and children, and empowering communities.
This event is part of the RCPI Fellows' Spring Series, Disrupting Injustice and Promoting Moral Imagination in Israel/Palestine: Conflict and Peace Fellows at Religion and Public Life (RPL) talk about their projects illuminating transnational solidarities, reimagining Jewish identity, Palestinian steadfastness (Sumoud), and cultivating moral imagination and creative possibilities for a just peace in Israel/Palestine.
Co-sponsors: RCPI and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Reem Atassi