“We must also realize that warfare anywhere is an attack on people and physical things everywhere, just as it is an assault on the other beings that coinhabit this world, our shared frail ecology, and the possibility of our collective survival.”

Publication: “Environment at War: Capturing Global Conflict in Arab Geographies,” Art Journal 81, no. 4 (December 2022): 74-87.

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Image: Abbas Akhavan, Toni Hafkenscheid, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, The Third Line, Dubai