Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East

Beata Dreksler is a landscape architect and associate professor at the American University of Beirut. She holds a PhD in landscape architecture from Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland. Beata has over 30 years of professional and academic experience across Europe, Central America, and the Middle East. Her research explores landscape democracy and digital transformation in landscape planning and design. She is the Middle East and North Africa Trustee of the International Association for Community Development (IACD).Jala Makhzoumi is the laureate of the 2021 International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award for her outstanding contribution to education and practice. She is the Acting President of the IFLA Middle East Region and adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the American University of Beirut. Jala is the recipient of the 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) Lifetime Achievement Award.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of boxesList of contributorsForewordIntroductionJala Makhzoumi and Beata DrekslerLandscape Discourses1. Environment, Nature and Landscape: Expanding the Professional ScopeJala Makhzoumi2. Climate Change and Landscape: Emerging TechnologiesKatarzyna Rędzińska and Beata DrekslerLandscape Heritage3. Landscape for Arid Ecologies: Oman Botanic GardenDima Zoughaib4. Urban Landscape Heritage: Reviving Baghdad Historic CentreMarwah Aldulaimi and Jala MakhzoumiPeople and Livelihoods5. Community-Driven Landscapes: Urban Greening in KuwaitSara Al-Anjari and Reem Alissa6. Social Resilience of Communities: Al Oyoun, JordanDirk Funck7. Landscape, Community, and Tourism in Socotra and AlUlaBeata Dreksler and Karim BachaLandscape Rights8. Designing for the Traumatized: Refugee Landscapes, LebanonRabih Shibli9. Landscape Under Occupation: Beit El Checkpoint, PalestineSamar Al Nazer, Sarah Kuhail and Sima Kuhail