Yazid Anani is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and the Master Program in Urban Planning and Landscape - Birzeit University, Palestine. He chaired the Academic Council of the International Art Academy Palestine 2010 - 2012. He is part of several collectives, and projects such as Decolonizing Architecture, Ramallah Syndrome and has curated and cocurated several projects such as 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th editions of Cities Exhibition and other exhibition in Qalandiya International. Anani has lectured and published internationally on issues of architecture and urban transformations, colonial spaces and power relations, public art and public spaces and art education. He is currently the director of Public Program at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah.