Dr Sana Murrani

Dr Sana Murrani

Visiting Senior Fellow

Middle East Centre

Languages
Arabic, English
Key Expertise
Middle East

About me

Dr Sana Murrani is an Associate Professor in Spatial Practice with a background in Architecture and Urban Design. She is the Arts/Health Research Lead and the founder of the Displacement Studies Research Network and the co-founder of the Justice and Imagination in Global Displacement Research Collective at the University of Plymouth and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. Sana’s research interests are rooted in (un)disciplined interdisciplinarity of spatial justice, informed by a creative, place-based research practice focused on built, destroyed, and imagined geographies of war, violence and displacement. She recently completed a monograph contracted with Bloomsbury titled: Rupturing architecture: spatial practices of refuge in response to war and violence in Iraq – with an associated online archive, a creative fieldwork project with Iraqis across the country titled: Ruptured Domesticity, funded by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and the LSE Middle East Centre. She is currently leading an AHRC Impact Accelerator Fellowship project alongside multidisciplinary artist Kimbal Bumstead and a team of Yazidi researchers titled: Ruptured Atlas: Creative Mapping of Yazidi Odyssey of Home, Displacement, Migration and Return. The project is in partnership with Sinjar Academy, Yazda, IOM Iraq and the LSE Middle East Centre. Here is the link to the project’s story maps.

Expertise Details

Middle East; architecture; spacial justice; Iraq