Shaden Awad is an Architect and Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University. Her work focuses on spatial politics under settler colonialism, decolonial urban studies, and feminist and indigenous epistemologies of space. She has published on urban transformations and contested geographies, the social construction of home, and socio-spatial resilience, situating Palestinian space as a theoretical ground for rethinking global geographies of injustice.