Khouloud Mallak
Student Fellow
Khouloud Mallak is a doctoral candidate in Geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer in Urban Studies at Queens College. Her research focuses on knowledge production and intellectual labor in the Humanitarian and Development industry in Lebanon and its relation to collective political-geographic imaginaries, praxis, and social movements. Her work draws on feminist geographic thought, critical regional studies, postcolonial and decolonial geography, and intellectual history and sociology. She earned a BA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut and an MA in Geography from the CUNY Graduate Center.Â
Participating Years
2026–2027
Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle
In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.