Omar Jabary Salamanca
Co-coordinator of OMAM
Omar Jabary Salamanca is a FNRS Research Fellow at REPI (Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale). His research and teaching focus on histories, geographies and theories of development, political economy, political ecology, and science and technology studies in colonial contexts. He is also interested in global histories and archival practices of anti-colonial solidarity movements. Omar has published several scholarly articles, books chapters and edited compilations on themes related to the politics of urban infrastructures, settler colonialism and development studies. He is currently completing a book on the political lives of infrastructures in Palestine to be published by Verso Books.
Prior to joining the ULB, Omar was FWO Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Conflict and Development at Ghent University and a Global Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. More recently he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Geography Department of the School of Global Studies at Sussex University and in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Omar serves on the editorial board of Arab Urbanism and Jadaliyya Cities, the international advisory boards of Antipode and ACME, the reading committee of Regards and the steering committee of the International Critical Geography Group. He is also co-founder and programmer for the Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival.
