France’s Nuclear Toxicity in the Algerian Sahara
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Space in African Studies
Frantz Fanon and Psychocolonial Spaces
Ramificaciones coloniales: Introducción
Conversation with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Anna Ramos
Best of 2024: Stories from the Global South expanding the purview of modernism(s)
Unearthing the Unthinkable: Samia Henni at the Mosaic Rooms
Art Monthly 477, by Amna Malik
Performing Colonial Toxicity at the Mosaic Rooms
Architecture and…
“On Frantz Fanon and the Manichean World”
Performing Colonial Toxicity at gta Exhibitions, ETH Zurich
Practice, Practice, Practice: in conversation with Samia Henni and Yasmin Abdu Bushra
Performing Colonial Toxicity at the Mosaic Rooms
Performing Colonial Toxicity: audio guide
Colonial Legacies, Loudreaders #47
Affirmations 6: Climate Regimes, a conversation with Rob Nixon
Performing Colonial Toxicity: a conversation with Samia Henni
Samia Henni on staging acts of Performing Colonial Toxicity
Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara
“Jerboasite: Naming French Radioactive Matter in the Sahara”
“Terra Nucleus: Radiating Desert Lives”
“The Battle for Internationalization and Independence”
Hirschman Forum 2022
Deserts Are Not Empty
“Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe”
To Rise out of Ash: Geopolitical Art at ifa Gallery Berlin
“Exhibition as a Form of Writing”
transmediale
We Are the No, with Danah Abdulla and Nora Al-Badri
Unlearning
Relearning Architecture, Exhibiting, and Teaching
Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity
The New York Times, by Farah Nayeri
At the Manifesta Biennial, a French City’s Tough Realities Go on Show
Une Méditerranée sonore
“The Coloniality of an Executive Order”
Henni honored by Society of Architectural Historians
2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award
Manifesta 13, Radio Grenouille
Trait d’Union #3: Samia Henni invites Fabrice Denise
Architecture de la contre-révolution
« Les bidonvilles, pour moi, c’est de l’architecture »
L’esprit des lieux : « Algérie : l’architecture de la contre-révolution »
Comment le pouvoir colonial a bâti une « architecture de la contre-révolution » en Algérie
Housing Pharmacology
“Reading Colonial Landscapes in Algeria and Palestine”
Anticolonial Commitments
Le cours de l’histoire : Rêves et cauchemars architecturaux
« Ce qui s’est passé est un crime contre l’humanité »
Architecture de la contre-révolution
Le Point, interview by Hassina Mechai
« Ces déplacements de population étaient de la pure violence »
“Samia Henni : Les bidonvilles d’Alger et de Nanterre”
Architecture of Counterrevolution: New Texts Out Now
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Designing for the “milieu féminin”
“Colonial Ramifications”
War Zones: gta papers no. 2
“Introduction: From Colonial Wars to Counterinsurgency”
“From ‘Indigenous’ to ‘Muslim’: On the French Colonial Assimilationist Doctrine”
e-flux, New York
The End of Theory? History/Theory discussion
“Toxic Imprints of Bleu, Blanc, Rouge: France’s Nuclear Bombs in the Algerian Sahara”
Architecture and Wars: Forms of Construction and Destruction in War Zones
“Samia Henni: Discreet Violence”
“What the Hell do They Mean When They Say ‘Independence’?”
“On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria (1954–1962)”
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NEWS
Toxicité coloniale : documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara is on view at Avril, Paris, France, from 20 November to 19 December 2026. Opening reception on 19 November 2026 at 7pm.
“Research Practice,” (keynote lecture), International Bauhaus Colloquium, “Politics of Research,” Bauhaus University, Weimar, 4–7 November 2026.
“Territorial Overlaps,” DATe 2026 conference, Designs, Architectures, and Territories, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 8–9 October 2026.
The afikra Podcast – “France’s Nuclear Toxicity in the Algerian Sahara” with Samia Henni, 7 September 2026.
Watch the recording of Samia Henni’s “Frantz Fanon and Psychocolonial Spaces”, from the symposium Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy: ‘To Give Body to an Institution’. The symposium was organised by Camilla Caglioti, Marlon Miguel, and Elena Vogman as part of the research project Madness, Media, Milieus. It took place on 29–30 January 2026 at ICI Berlin.
World Congress of Architects, Barcelona
UIA 2026: Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition
“Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance”
With Samia Henni, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, and Malkit Shoshan
Language: English
Simultaneous Translation: French, Spanish, Catalan
Tuesday 30 June, 13:45–15:10
Location: CCIB -Stage 1
Conversation with Samia Henni and Federica Martini at Collège Saint-Michel (Freiburg, Switzerland), 28 June 2026.
Guided tour with Samia Henni of Performing Colonial Toxicity at Belluard Bollwerk (Freiburg, Switzerland), 25 June 2026.
Performing Colonial Toxicity is on view at Belluard Bollwerk (Freiburg, Switzerland) from 25 June to 4 July 2026.
Ramificaciones coloniales
Lugo / A Coruña: Bartlebooth, 2026
108 pages
ISBN 979-13-991735-1-2
Text in Spanish
“A Conversation about Dust,” with Samia Henni, Natalia Moreno, Lydia Ourahmane, and Khaled Bouzidi, organized by Olga Subirós, Joana Teixidor, and Llorenç Bonet, Fundació Joan Miró, 29 May 2026.
“Colonial Toxicity,” in Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series, discussed by Iain Chambers, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, 4 May 2026.
Space in African Studies, a two-day multidisciplinary symposium, 26–27 March 2026 McGill University.
The symposium aims at discussing models of spatial research and the role that built, destroyed, and immaterial environments play in shaping African societies, cultures, and territories.
Performing Colonial Toxicity is on view at Centre de design de l’UQAM (Montréal, Québec, Canada) from 19 February to 12 April 2026.