Summary
Designer who, with Laila el-Haddad, launched the Gaza-Tel Aviv virtual tourism platform You Are Not Here (2007-2009), originating in his earlier New York-Baghdad version (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.198).
Details
- The platform allows people in one city to take a walking tour of another city they cannot physically reach; the Gaza-Tel Aviv version, hosted by El-Haddad, was directed at a Tel Aviv audience (PDF p.198).
- Zer-Aviv and El-Haddad call the archived maps and recordings an “urban tourism mash-up”; the tour maps Gaza’s streets onto Tel Aviv, reversing Israel’s mapping of Israeli names onto Palestinian spaces without leaving destruction in its wake (PDF p.198-200).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Laila el-Haddad, Gaza, Solidarity Tourism