Hajar Ibrahim is a researcher, organiser and artist. Her work moves between archival research, cartography, sound, and direct action, with a focus on Palestine, colonial knowledge production, memory and place. She is an archival researcher currently working on a book with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on a narrative history of Palestine through 5,000 years of toponymy. The project reveals the pluralistic histories preserved in Palestinian place names and preserved in the tongues of Palestinians over millennia, and challenges the historicity of a long tradition of Holy Land/biblical geography since antiquity. Her research has also examined Balfour’s imperial afterlife and the colonial continuities of Western Academe. Her wider research approaches Palestinian liberation theology through the phenomenology and metaphysics of time, bringing Ali Shariati and Walter Benjamin into dialogue around remembrance and return, and situating these ideas within Al-Thawabet, Palestinian resistance and direct action. Hajar is also one half of Ejrad, an experimental multidisciplinary research project with Masa Nazzal exploring forms of Palestinian return through sonic, archival, textile and photographic approaches. Alongside this work, she has DJed as part of the formerly Edinburgh-based Shahrazadi duo, and is the author of Beirut’s Underground Music Scene (2023).