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Edited by eksler, Beata; Edited by Makhzoumi Jala

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This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to the limitations of faulty translations of the English ‘landscape’ that, in turn, limit the professional potential in the region.

The authors of the book see landscape as a way of beholding the world that is informed by place and culture. And because landscape is context specific, a landscape framing contextualizes a problem, be it community development, tourism, or nature conservation, to foster place and culture responsive perspectives. The nine chapters are grouped under four broad themes that reflect the multifaceted, ‘expansive’ framing that embraces landscape, natural and cultural heritage, people and livelihoods, and landscape and human rights.

The authors recognize that a landscape framing is not the exclusive domain of landscape architecture, but can be applied by architects, planners, and environmentalists. The ideas advanced and issues discussed will be of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners in landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and urban design, as well as social and environmental scientists.

Table of contents:

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

List of contributors

Foreword

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 Zoughaib

4.
Urban Landscape Heritage: Reviving Baghdad Historic Centre

Marwah Aldulaimi 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

Biographical note:

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 o