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Sandi Hilal (born in Bethlehem) 1973) is an Palestinian architect, artist, educator and a researcher in the field of urban sociology and urban planning.

Early life and academic background
She obtained her master's degree at the University of Sapienza in Rome, in the field of management and control of intervention of the regulation and re-qualification of urban areas in the third world. From 2001 to 2005 she has been teaching assistant in Visual Arts and Urban Studies at the IUAV University of Venice. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2006. in the field of " Trans-border policies for daily life" at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Career
In 2007, Hilal founded Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) with Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, in Beit Sahour, Palestine, which combines an architectural studio with an art residency, with the aim to gather architects, artists, activists, urbanists, film-makers and curators to work collectively on the subjects of politics and architecture. The project was awarded the Claus Prize for Architecture, received an Art initiative Grant, and was shortlisted for the Chrnikov Prize. The project later inspired the book Architecture after Revolution in 2013, co-authored by Hilal, Petti, Weizman. The book is an invitation to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization.

Later in 2012, together with Alessandro Petti, she founded “Campus in Camps”, an experimental educational program in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine, exploring and producing new forms of representation of camps and refugees, with the aims to overcome conventional educational structures by creating a space for critical and grounded knowledge production connected to greater transformations and the democratization of society.

She was the head of the Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Program in the West Bank at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from 2008 to 2014. Her projects have been published in various national and international newspapers and magazines.

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Category:Urban planners Category:Palestinian architects