Land Keepers
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Land Keepers
Edited by Ecorove (Iyad Abou Gaida and Jumanah Abbas)
With work by
Hussein Chaabane, Sarah Sinno, Munira Khayyat, Hamza Hamouchene, Michelle Eid, Nasser Elamine, Anis Garemani, Rania Masri, Edwin Nasr, and Public Work Studio.
Cover illustration by Iyad Abou Gaida
Designed by GenderFail (Be Oakley)
Risograph Printed
1st Edition of 600
April 2026
EcoRove’s Land Keepers Reader brings together writers, activists, journalists, farmers, and ecologists from across Bilad al-Sham — Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine — to tell stories of green resistance in the Jabal al-Sheikh ecological zone. Spanning South Lebanon, the occupied Jawlan, and the occupied Galilee, this landscape faces ongoing ecocide, defined as the deliberate destruction of land and ecologies used by the Zionist regime to erode livelihoods, cultures, and environments. The Reader highlights these struggles through essays, research and testimonies that show how native communities remain rooted in place, resisting colonial environmental orientalism, greenwashing, and scorched-earth tactics. As part of a wider body of work that includes a documentary film, tapestries, and sculptural pieces, the Reader amplifies indigenous ecological knowledge and envisions regenerative futures for threatened landscapes.
