Building Belief: The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Architecture of State Power
Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of...

Abdalla Bayyari is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies, writer, academic, and art practitioner. He is a member of the editorial board of Palestine Studies Journal. His research interests include decolonizing geography, mobility studies, and spatial resistance. His current projects explore the interplay between geography, urbanity, and the body in the Israeli colonial apparatus through counter-cartographic practices. Bayyari is a member of MESA, the Urban Affairs Association, and the Geographic Association. He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Stanford Humanities Center. His recent works include Ruins and Emptiness in the Israeli Colonial Apparatus (Routledge, 2024), Barefoot Resistance: On Producing Space Through Mobility (Critical Times, 2026), and the Arabic essay “Where Does Urbicide Begin?” (Idafat Journal, Summer 2024).
Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of...
