Dr. Nurhan Abujidi  is a professor and chair of the Smart Urban Redesign Research Centre at Zuyd University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. Previously, she was chief architect for the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage (1996 – 2000), the academic coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus UII urban studies module at the VUB Brussels, senior researcher on sustainable urban development at Zaragoza University, and Vice Dean and Professor of Urban Design Theory at the Faculty of Architecture at San Jorge University in Zaragoza, Spain, where she directed multiple research projects on urban development. She has also taught Master’s programmes in several universities and research groups including COSMOPOLIS; City, Culture and Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Co-founder of Palestina Museum in Belgium. She is the author of Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience (Routledge, 2014).