Hollow Land

I attended a talk organised by the Palestinian Society tonight, discussing the latest book by Eyal Weizman (Hollow Land) on Israeli’s occupation architecture. He drew a few interesting parallels between Israeli architecture of settlements and the oppression of the Palestinians in the West Bank. He also mentioned a tactics used by the Israeli Defence Force to invade Palestinian homes by simply slicing open the walls and intruding on the inhabitants’ personal space. I liked some of the imagery Weizman used. The topic also comes in handy for our Middle East seminar next week.

Unfortunately the book was already sold out by the time I left the lecture theatre, so I will need to get it somewhere else.