Sharif, Y., & Golzari, N. (2025). Ruins confronting colonial erasure: Challenging emptiness and reclaiming home, street and neighbourhood in Gaza. In D. Matar & V. Porter (Eds.), Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure (pp. 252–255). London: Saqi Books
Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making and storytelling persist. “Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure” brings together voices from Palestine and beyond to document cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Contributions from curators, architects, artists, journalists, lawyers and scholars capture Gaza’s once-vibrant cultural life—historic buildings, art cent
