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Petra Samaha

PhD Candidate

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Public space, land, State theory

Discipline(s): Geography

Subdiscipline(s): Urban Geography, Political Theory

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Environmental risks and planetary limits

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Lebanon

Biography

Petra Samaha has a Master of Architecture from the Lebanese University (2013) and a Master of Urban Design from the American University of Beirut (2015). Petra worked as an urban planner and researcher in Beirut from 2012 till 2020. Projects include urban design and planning projects and policy studies. Additionally, she led several research projects alongside her full time job, mainly at the American University of Beirut. Her work focuses on low-income neighborhoods, public spaces, property, refugees and mobility. She has presented her work in several venues in Lebanon and abroad. She has also published in Journal of Transport Geography, Jadaliyya, in “Practicing the Public” issued with As-Safir Lebanese daily, and with Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. Petra is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology at Sciences Po - Paris.

Thesis topic

On the Meaning of the “Public” in a Propertied Landscape: Space matters and State representations. The case of Lebanon, supervised by Eric Verdeil

publications

  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العام بين الأرض وملكيّتها في لبنان وفلسطين (6):لِمَن الأرض؟ ولأيّة دولة؟. The Legal Agenda, 2024. ⟨hal-05169464⟩
  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العامّ في لبنان بين الأرض وملكيّتها (5): “ميري عام” و”ميري خاص”. The Legal Agenda, 2024. ⟨hal-04693147⟩
  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العام في لبنان بين الأرض وملكيّتها (4): متروك، لمن؟. The Legal Agenda, 2024. ⟨hal-04693138⟩
  • Petra Samaha. Book review - Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution. Mondes arabes, 2024, 1 (5), pp.203-209. ⟨10.3917/machr2.005.0203⟩. ⟨hal-04636189⟩
  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العام في لبنان بين الأرض وملكيّتها (3):”التحديد والتحرير” وخرائط المساحة، غاية أم وسيلة؟. The Legal Agenda, 2024. ⟨hal-04607184⟩
  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العام في لبنان بين الأرض وملكيّتها (2): “إنجازات” الفرنسيين، أساسات هشّة. The Legal Agenda, 2024. ⟨hal-04439489⟩
  • Petra Samaha. بحثًا عن العام في لبنان بين الأرض وملكيّتها (1): قانون الأراضي العثماني 1858. The Legal Agenda, 2023. ⟨hal-04309908⟩
  • Mona Khechen, Petra Samaha. Land Governance, Natural Resources and Climate Change in the Arab Region. 5, UN-Habitat. 2022, 136 p. ⟨hal-03981166⟩
  • Petra Samaha. Land as a Cash Machine: The case of Lebanon. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat); GLTN’s Arab Land Initiative. 2022, 23 p. ⟨hal-03935424⟩
  • Petra Samaha. The Seemingly (Un)Planned Urbanization in Chouf: Who is the Planner?. 2021. ⟨hal-03391766⟩

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