Trees, like memory, decay with time, but is decay synonymous with disappearance?

AREEJ ASHHAB (Jerusalem, 1995) is a Palestinian artist, architect and researcher engaging in community land practices and material ecologies. She’s 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 concepts of arid lands and futures. Ashhab has contributed to projects like Between Lime and Clay (2023-2024), The Absent Map (Riwaq Centre, 2021-2022), Souq Stories (Palestine, 2021), and Jerusalem Show IX (Al-Ma'mal Foundation, 2018). 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 and Bachelor of Architecture from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
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