Shourideh Molavi

Shourideh Molavi

Lead Israel/Palestine Researcher, Forensic Architecture

Shourideh is the dedicated Israel-Palestine researcher for Forensic Architecture, linking our investigations to the work and research of civil society groups and human rights defenders in the country. She is a scholar in political science specialising in critical international relations and political theory and trained with a background in International Humanitarian Law. Shourideh has almost two decades of extensive academic, legal research, and fieldwork experience in the Middle East on the topics of human and minority rights, with an emphasis on the relationship between the law, violence and power. She is Senior Lecturer in Critical Urbanisms at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Her publications include Stateless Citizenship: The Arab Citizens of Israel (Brill, 2013); Contemporary Israel/Palestine (Oxford University Press, 2018); Environmental Warfare in Gaza (Pluto Press, 2021); Interrogating the Citizen: On the Israeli Logic of Exclusion (I.B. Tauris, 2022, forthcoming).