Highlighted publications
Ftouni, L. (2024). ‘Zij scheppen de dood, en ik ben het werk van het leven.’ De spermasmokkel van Palestijnse gevangenen als levensaffirmatie. (vertaalde voor Samuel Vriezen). nY. Tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en amusement, 55. https://www.ny-web.be/artikels/zij-scheppen-de-dood-en-ik-ben-het-werk-van-het-leven-de-spermasmokkel-van-palestijnse-gevangenen-als-levensaffirmatie/
Mascat, J., Ftouni, L., & Górska, M. (2023). Revolt: The Sense and Non-Sense of Kristeva. In S. Ponzanesi, K. Thiele, D. Olivieri, E. Midden, & T. Oorschot (Eds.), Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek/Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics (pp. 157-164). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Ftouni, L. (2022). Decolonizing the Curriculum and the University: A Panel Discussion with Rolando Vasquez, Layal Ftouni and Toni Pape, 31 March 2021. Junctions, 6(1), 21-37. [DOI] [Repository]
Ftouni, L. (2017). Arab Subcultures and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation. In Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice (pp. 1-17). (Library of Modern Middle East studies; Vol. 152). I.B. Tauris.
Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2025). Reproduction Against Genocide: The Labour of Life in Palestine (Keynote lecture at the Reproductive Horizons of Abolition conference, March 2025, University of Amsterdam). Reproductive Horizons of Abolition, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/events/2025/03/28-03-2025-reproductive-horizons-of-abolition---reproduction-against-genocide-the-labour-of-life-in-palestine.html?cb
Professional publications
Ftouni, L. (2025). "هم يصنعون الموت، وأنا صنيعة الحياة": تهريب السجناء الفلسطينيين للنطف كتأكيد على الحياة". Web publication/site, The public source. https://thepublicsource.org/ar/sperm-smuggling-palestinian-prisoners
Popularising publications
Ftouni, L. (2025). Reproduction Against Genocide: The Labour of Life in Palestine (keynote lecture at the Reproductive Horizons of Abolition conference, March 2024).
2024
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2024). Invited Public Lecture: 'Sperm Smuggling and The Right to Life in Palestine (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec. 2024). Gender in Palestine lecture series, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ftouni, L. (2024). Invited Public Lecture: 'Reproductive warfare and 'the right to life' in Palestine' (International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Ftouni, L. (2024). 'Usufructuaries of Earth: Life and Death Beyond the Boundary': a conversation between Layal Ftouni, Brenna Bhandar, Yvonne Phyllis, and Ruth Wilson-Gilmore (BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands). Usufructuaries of Earth , Utrecht , Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twKGfIF3OO8
Ftouni, L. (2024). Keynote lecture: 'Affirming Life in Colonial Death-Worlds in Palestine' (ASCA conference 2024, University of Amsterdam, NL).
Ftouni, L. (2024). ‘Zij scheppen de dood, en ik ben het werk van het leven.’ De spermasmokkel van Palestijnse gevangenen als levensaffirmatie. (vertaalde voor Samuel Vriezen). nY. Tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en amusement, 55. https://www.ny-web.be/artikels/zij-scheppen-de-dood-en-ik-ben-het-werk-van-het-leven-de-spermasmokkel-van-palestijnse-gevangenen-als-levensaffirmatie/
2023
Scholarly publications
Mascat, J., Ftouni, L., & Górska, M. (2023). Revolt: The Sense and Non-Sense of Kristeva. In S. Ponzanesi, K. Thiele, D. Olivieri, E. Midden, & T. Oorschot (Eds.), Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek/Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics (pp. 157-164). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2022). Decolonizing the Curriculum and the University: A Panel Discussion with Rolando Vasquez, Layal Ftouni and Toni Pape, 31 March 2021. Junctions, 6(1), 21-37. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2021). Radical Kinship: Solidarity & Political Belonging. Digital or Visual Products, CSGS NYU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0JF8CTyZxg
2020
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2020). Decolonising the Curriculum? Which Curriculum? How? and by Whom?. Web publication/site https://camri.ac.uk/blog/articles/decolonising-the-curriculum-which-curriculum-how-and-by-whom/
Ftouni, L. (2020, Oct). ‘Intersectional Solidarity at the Limit’- keynote delivered at the Research Center for Material Cultures, via NWO funded project ‘The Critical Visitor’, NL.. Unpublished
2019
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2019). 'Affirmations of Life at the frontiers of survival: settler colonial violence and the question of Palestine' delivered at the Historical Materialism Conference: 'Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow', SOAS University of London, London..
Ftouni, L. (2019). 'Affirmative Politics at the threshold between life and death in Occupied Palestine' delivered at Queer Death Studies Conference: 'Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitioning', Karlstad university, Karlstad..
Ftouni, L. (2019). 'Im/possible Justice at the threshold of Life and Death in Occupied Palestine' delivered at the Dutch Art Institute's Roaming Assembly entitled; Opaque Justice: A Dialectics of Rerouting', Berlin..
Professional publications
Buikema, R. L., Ftouni, L., Wevers, R. L. L., Vazquez, R., Jouwe, N. L., & Rutten, B. (2019). What is Left Unseen. Centraal Museum.
Ftouni, L. (2019). The Scene and the Unseen. In What is Left Unseen, exhibition catalogue (pp. 43-65). Museum of Equality and Difference. https://moed.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MOED_WILU_online.pdf
2017
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2017). 'Affective Politics of Death in Tania El-Khoury's 'Gardens Speak' delivered at 'Overflows: Performance Studies International Conference', Hamburg..
Ftouni, L. (2017). Performative Interventions in Public Space: An Interview with Dictaphone Group. In L. Ftouni, & T. Sabry (Eds.), Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice (pp. 113-124). (Library of Modern Middle East studies; Vol. 152). I.B. Tauris.
Ftouni, L. (2017). Arab Subcultures and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation. In Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice (pp. 1-17). (Library of Modern Middle East studies; Vol. 152). I.B. Tauris.
Sabry, T., & Ftouni, L. (Eds.) (2017). Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice. (Library of Modern Middle East Studies). I.B. Tauris.
Other output
Ftouni, L. (2017). 'Translating Arab Subcultures' delivered at the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies conference 'Cultural Translation and Travelling Theories', Utrecht University, Utrecht..
2016
Other output
Ftouni, L. (2016). ''Traumatic Encounters and After-Affects in the work of Mona Hatoum' - delivered at Tate Modern symposium entitled Piercing the Object, Inventing the Self organised in conjunction with Mona Hatoum's solo exhibition (London- U.K.).
2015
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2015). 'Intersections in Space and Time: Arab Art Between the Modern and the Contemporary’ delivered at Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS) bi-annual conference, Beirut..
Other output
Ftouni, L. (2015). Wither Critique? Reflections on a Post-critical turn in MENA art (Berlin- Germany). Writing Histories of Now: Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture , Berlin, Germany.
Ftouni, L. (2015). 'Thinking With Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues on Art and Culture' (Event Curator and Speaker)- at Beirut Art Center, in conjunction with Unfinished Conversations exhibition (Beirut- Lebanon). Thinking with Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues on Art and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon.
2012
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2012). 'Between Aesthetics and Politics: Radical Desires in Egyptian Surrealism' presented at 'Youth Subcultures and the Politics of Resistance in the Arab world' conference held at the University of Westminster, London.. Paper presented at Media, Youth and the Politics of Resistance in the 'Arab World', London, United Kingdom.
Ftouni, L. (2012). Rethinking Gender Studies: Towards an Arab Feminist Epistemology. In T. Sabry (Ed.), Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (pp. 162-185). I.B. Tauris.
2010
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2010, Mar 1). 'Neo-Orientalism in Visual Art' - lecture delivered at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) by invitation. Unpublished.
2009
Scholarly publications
Ftouni, L. (2009). 'The Quest for Authenticity in Contemporary Arts from the Middle East' presented at 'Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam' conference, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen..
Ftouni, L. (2009, May). "Unveiled" Unveiled: Dismantling or Reproducing the Orientalist Canon? - talk presented at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum, followed by a conversation with Barbad Golshiri (London-U.K.) by invitation. Unpublished.