Mahdi Sabbagh is an architectural scholar and urbanist. He co-curates the Palestine Festival of Literature and serves as Editor at Large for the Avery Review. He is the editor of  Their Borders, Our World (Haymarket Press, 2024) and was a 2023 Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. His work appears in the Journal of Public Culture, Jerusalem Quarterly, The Architectural Review, Curbed, Architecture of the Territory (Kaph Books, 2022), Open Gaza (AUC Press, 2021), and other publications. Mahdi is a Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Architecture from Yale.

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