Staff profile

I am a Career Development Fellow in Human Geography at Durham University. Prior to this, I was a teaching fellow at Durham University (2023/24) and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University (2022/23).

My research examines the entanglements of settler colonialism, environmental politics and cultural-ecological activism in the Middle East. My recent work explores Palestinian cultural activism and environmental knowledge in the West Bank, focusing on creative practices at the museum and the botanical garden.

I have a Master's degree in Globalisation and Development Studies (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and a PhD in human geography (Aberystwyth University). My research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Royal Geographical Society with IBG (through the prestigious Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award) and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). 

Current PhD Supervisions

Naznin Nasir, PhD Student in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

• (i) Critical approaches to the study of nationalism and national identity, with particular focus on the role of museums and archives in the articulation of national identities.
• (ii) Cultural and artistic approaches to geopolitics, the production of imaginative geographies through creative practices, including exhibitions and visual culture.
• (iii) Postcolonial and decolonial critiques to geographical knowledge, colonialism and settler colonialism - with a focus on colonial constructions of nature and environmental politics in Palestine-Israel.

Book review

• Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, 2015, When Humans Become Migrants: Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint Autori
  
  Hassouna, S. (2017). Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, 2015, When Humans Become Migrants: Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint Autori. Antropologia Rivista Semestrale, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20171190%2525p

Journal Article

• Walking paths of future loss
  
  Hassouna, S. (2025). Walking paths of future loss. Social and Cultural Geography. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2549703
• Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden
  
  Hassouna, S. (2023). Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12639
• Inhabiting the Space Between Search and Research
  
  Hassouna, S. (2021). Inhabiting the Space Between Search and Research. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, 2(2), 297-315. https://doi.org/10.1163/25903276-bja10030
• Spaces for Dialogue in a Segregated Landscape: A Study on the Current Joint Efforts for Peace in the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
  
  Hassouna, S. (2016). Spaces for Dialogue in a Segregated Landscape: A Study on the Current Joint Efforts for Peace in the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 34(1), 57-82. https://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21169