Loubna Qutami

Loubna Qutami is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the way refugee youth are forging new solidarities and linking service and political praxis as a result of multiscalar forms of dispossession, siege, and catastrophe they are enduring.

Displaced and Refugees

Jerusalem in Athens: Refugees, the Youth Left and the Crises of Nation and Capital

Loubna Qutami

In the heart of Athens Exarchia Square, a Palestinian refugee youth from Ein El-Hilwa refugee camp in Lebanon sits to tell me of the sobering reality offering refugee support services in Greek camps has taught him. By now, Exarchia has cleared of the international volunteers who come for the summer to offer “help” and of […]