Areej Ashhab is a research-based artist and architect working between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice explores material heritage, more-than-human ecologies, and land politics through situated and embodied pedagogical approaches. Her work spans material experimentation, land practices, writing, and film, and often unfolds collectively through workshops, walks, and shared meals—moments she sees as sites of memory-making and knowledge exchange in contexts shaped by extraction, displacement, and enclosure.
Areej is the co-founder of Al-Block collective, documenting lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking, and Al-Wah'at, a translocal collective countering anthropocentric and colonial narratives around arid lands and futures. She has also taught at institutions such as the Royal College of Art, London, and the Arab American University, Ramallah. Areej holds a masters degree from the Centre for Research Architecture (2022). She is a 2025 Jan van Eyck Academie resident with Al-Wah’at. Her writings appear in The Funambulist Magazine, Avery Review (Al-Wah’at), Border Environments (Centre for Research Architecture), and are forthcoming in e-flux Architecture and Living Continuity (Sharjah Architecture Triennial, with Al-Wah’at).
Photo by Luna Antonia Arboleda, 2024