Areej Ashhab is an artist, researcher and architect whose work attends to land, material narratives, and collective forms of learning. She is co-founder of Al-Wah’at, a collective that investigates colonial notions of "weeds" and "wastelands," and Al-Block, tracing lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking. Working across material research, video, and writing, Areej's artistic practice often unfolds collectively through workshops, walks, and labor chants. Her work has been exhibited at W139 (Amsterdam), tranzit.sk (Bratislava) and Wonder Cabinet (Bethlehem).
Areej holds an MA from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths (2022) and was a 2025 participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy (with Al-Wah'at). Currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, she has previously taught at the Royal College of Art (London) and the Arab American University (Ramallah). She is the co-author of the artist book The Fast-Growing Stinking Escaped Waste-Loving Wall-Breaching Self-Cloning Other-Than-Natural No-Man's Tree, and her writing is featured in e-flux Architecture, The Funambulist Magazine, and Avery Review (Al-Wah’at).
