Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Concordia University. She was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2018/2019 and the recipient of the 2018 Leonhard-Woltjer postdoctoral award in the History and Art History Department at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from York University, Toronto, where she also worked on theories in visual anthropology, urban politics, landscape, borders, bureaucracy, and state violence. Her ethnographic manuscript The Art of Unsettling Visual Politics (work in progress) explores visual politics in Palestine and interrogates how Palestinian artists in West Bank are using art as a liberatory tool in crafting an insurgent political imaginary that challenges hegemonic projects of statehood. She also explores the politics of place-making at the frontier of Israeli military borders, in specific, the case of Palestinian spaces behind the Wall in Jerusalem. Her current writing project looks at Palestinian resistance films to examine the role Palestinian epistemologies play in contesting military violence.