1st Edition
Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East
Lists of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Foreword by Bruno Marques
Introduction
Jala Makhzoumi and Beata Dreksler
Landscape Discourses
1 Environment, Nature and Landscape: Expanding the Professional Scope
Jala Makhzoumi
2 Climate Change and Landscape: Emerging Technologies
Katarzyna Rędzińska and Beata Dreksler
Landscape Heritage
3 Landscape for Arid Ecologies: Oman Botanic Garden
Dima Zogheib
4 Urban Landscape Heritage: Reviving Baghdad Historic Center
Marwah Al-Dulaimi and Jala Makhzoumi
People and Livelihoods
5 Community-Driven Landscapes: Urban Greening in Kuwait
Sara Al-Anjari and Reem Alissa
6 Social Resilience of Communities: Al Oyoun, Jordan
Dirk Funck
7 Landscape, Community, and Tourism in Socotra and AlUla
Beata Dreksler and Karim Bacha
Landscape Rights
8 Designing for the Traumatized: Refugee Landscapes, Lebanon
Rabih Shibli
9 Landscape under Occupation: Beit El Checkpoint, Palestine
Samar Al Nazer, Sarah Kuhail, and Sima Kuhail
Index
Biography
Beata Dreksler is a landscape architect and associate professor at the American University of Beirut. She holds a PhD in landscape architecture from Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland. Beata has over 30 years of professional and academic experience across Europe, Central America, and the Middle East. Her research explores landscape democracy and digital transformation in landscape planning and design. She is the Middle East and North Africa Trustee of the International Association for Community Development (IACD).
Jala Makhzoumi is the laureate of the 2021 International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award for her outstanding contribution to education and practice. She is the Acting President of the IFLA Middle East Region and adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the American University of Beirut. Jala is the recipient of the 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) Lifetime Achievement Award.
