Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Abusaada, Nadi., "The Arab World on Display: The Arab Exhibitions in 1930s Jerusalem." (Forthcoming: The Architecture Exhibition Operating as a Cross-Cultural Contact Zone [Special Issue]. Architecture and Culture, 2023).
Abusaada, Nadi., "The Profession’s Vanguards: Arab Architects and Regional Architectural Exchange, 1900–50." Architectural Theory Review (2023): 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2215535.
Abusaada, Nadi. "“The Pit and the Pond”: Hydraulic Projects and Municipal Rights in Modern Palestine." Environment, Disease, and Infrastructure [Special Issue]. Journal of Palestine Studies 51, no. 4 (2022): 8-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2135383.
Abusaada, Nadi. "Consolidating the Rule of Experts: A Model Village for Refugees in the Jordan Valley, 1945‐55." Displacement [Special Issue]. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10, no. 2 (2021): 361-385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ijia_00048_1.
Abusaada, Nadi. "Combined Action: Aerial Imagery and the Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine, 1918-40." Palestine From Above [Special issue]. Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 81 (2020): 20-36. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650011>. ISSN 2521-974X.
Abusaada, Nadi. "Self-Portrait of a Nation: The Arab Exhibition in Mandate Jerusalem, 1931-34." Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 77 (2019): 122-35. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/235369>. ISSN 2521-974X.*This publication is the winner of 2019 Ibrahim Dakkak Annual Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem.
Book Chapters
Abusaada, Nadi and Asali, Wesam. "Between Theory and Practice: Arab Architecture between Revivalism, Renewal, and Tradition" (Forthcoming: N. Abusaada and W. Asali, eds., Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence. gta Verlag, 2024).
Abusaada, Nadi. "Stereotomy and Palestinian Architecture" (Forthcoming: T. Beralda, eds., Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 – The Palestinian Museum. Architangle, 2024).
Abusaada, Nadi. "Modern Landscape, Biblical Frame: Jaffa in the Eyes of a Dutch Photographer" (Forthcoming: K. Sanchez and S. Zananiri, eds., Revisiting Palestine Illustrated. Amsterdam University Press, 2024).
Abusaada, Nadi. "Beyond the Mountains and the Sea: Overlapping Geographies of Modern Palestine." (Forthcoming: Palestinian Museum Publications, 2023).
Abusaada, Nadi. "Interrupted Modernity: The 1945 Jaffa Masterplan." (Forthcoming: Khaldun Bshara, eds., Palestine Modern: An Unfulfilled Promise. Riwaq Publications, 2023).
Abusaada, Nadi. "‘The Reconstruction of Palestine’: Geographical Imaginaries after World War I." In. Sarah Irving, eds., The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari. Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Available at: <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-social-and-cultural-history-of-palestine.html>.
Abusaada, Nadi. "Urban Encounters: Imaging the City in Mandate Palestine." In: K. Sanchez and S. Zananiri, eds., Imaging and Imagining Palestine: Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens 1918-1948. (Netherlands: Brill, 2021). Available at: <https://brill.com/view/title/55370>. *This book chapter is a double-blind peer reviewed publication.
Abusaada, Nadi. "Combined Action: Aerial Imagery and Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine." In: Y. Anani, eds., Palestine from Above: Imaging the Landscape through Surveillance and Cartography. Exhibit Dossier. (Ramallah: Qattan Foundation and Institute for Palestine Studies, 2021).
Edited Journal Issues
Abusaada, Nadi. and Asali, Wesam., eds., Scroope: The Cambridge Architectural Journal, Department of Architecture: University of Cambridge, 29 (2020). Available at: <https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.63236>.
Book Reviews
Sleiman, Hana, and Abusaada, Nadi (2023) Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 155:2, 177-182, DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2023.2201077. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00310328.2023.2201077>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2022. Essential Readings on Urban Palestine. Jadaliyya and Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). <https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/44213> and <https://mespi.org/2022/06/16/essential-readings-on-urban-palestine/>.
Architectural Magazine Articles
Abusaada, Nadi., 2024. Rebuilding Gaza. Repair [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1508). <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/rebuilding-gaza>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2023. Forgotten history: a vision for Palestinian refugees’ agricultural self-sufficiency. Online. The Architectural Review. <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/forgotten-history-ads>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2023. Concrete changes: the Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, Palestine, by AAU Anastas. Deserts [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1505). <https://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/concrete-changes-the-wonder-cabinet-in-bethlehem-palestine-by-aau-anastas>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2023. The Palace Hotel in Jerusalem. Demolition + AR New into Old [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1503). <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/palace-hotel-1929-demolition-postcard>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2022. Jerusalem Stone: The History and Identity of Palestinian Stereotomy. Stone [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1490), pp.30-37. Available at: <https://www.architectural-review.com/digital-edition/april-2022-stone>. *This article was the second-most read article in The Architectural Review in 2022.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2021. Under Jerusalem. Underground [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1480), pp.74-77. Available at: <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/under-jerusalem-israels-subterranean-expansion>. Arabic translation: <https://www.rommanmag.com/view/posts/postDetails?id=6138 *This article was the third-most read article in The Architectural Review in 2021.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2021. Palestine’s Garden Walls. The Garden [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1478), pp.90-93. Available at: <https://www.architectural-review.com/magazines/ar-february-2021-on-garden>.
Abusaada, Nadi. and Asali Wesam., ‘Editorial: Pulling the Emergency Break’, Scroope: The Cambridge Architectural Journal, 29 (2020), pp. 10-13. Available at: <https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/downloads/scroope-29.pdf>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. Invisible Terrains. Land [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1475), pp.36-38. Available at: <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/city-portraits/invisible-terrains-jaffas-obscured-history>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. Architecture as a System of Knowledge. Letters to a Young Architect [Special Issue]. The Architectural Review, (1474), pp.40. Available at: <https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/letters-to-a-young-architect/nadi-abusaada-letter-to-a-young-architect>.
Public Scholarship
Abusaada, Nadi., 2022. The forgotten history of Jerusalem's Palace Hotel. Middle East Eye. <https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/jerusalem-palace-hotel-forgotten-history>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City [online] Palestine Square. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650539>. Spanish Translation: https://elinterpretedigital.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/jaffa-ascenso-y-caida-de-una-ciudad-agraria/.
Abusaada, Nadi. and Wahby, Noura. 2020. Editorial Letter. Arab Urbanism Magazine. [online]. <https://www.araburbanism.com/magazine/editors-welcome-1-en>
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. “Off the Record”: Palestine at the 1944 Arab League Preparatory Conference. [online] Palestine Square. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650226>. Spanish translation: <https://elinterpretedigital.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/por-fuera-palestina-en-la-conferencia-preparatoria-de-la-liga-arabe-de-1944/>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. The Palace Hotel in Jerusalem: History Beyond Memory. [online] Palestine Square. <https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650028>. Spanish translation: <https://elinterpretedigital.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/el-palace-hotel-de-jerusalen-historia-mas-alla-de-la-memoria/>.
Abusaada, Nadi., 2020. Aerial Frontiers: The Colonial Gaze Over Palestine. Flights [Special Issue]. Kings Review, (6), pp.38-41. Available at: <https://www.underthecover.pt/product/kings-review-flights/>.