Omar Ferwati
Senior Researcher
Omar is a Senior Researcher at Forensic Architecture where he works to develop research methods in investigations as well as consider the research practice of FA more broadly. His investigations have ranged from airstrikes to colonial violence, to environmental racism. He trained as an architect in Canada and has worked at several architecture practices internationally. Omar’s own research currently focuses on how civilians use architecture to survive urban warfare and other crises. Omar previously taught at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
- investigations
- The Massacre of Aid Workers in Tel al-Sultan
- The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation
- The Environmental Continuum of Genocide in Namibia
- The Massacre at Tur Al-Zagh: Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
- A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Shark Island
- The Grenfell Tower Fire: Situated Testimonies
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: The Hornkranz Massacre
- Humanitarian Violence in Gaza
- Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
- Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948
- Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia
- Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist
- Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
- Sheikh Jarrah: Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem
- The Shelling of Khudair Warehouse: Chemical Warfare by Indirect Means
- The Murder of Lucas Villa
- Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
- European Arms in the Bombing of Yemen
- The Extrajudicial Execution of Ahmad Erekat
- Police Brutality at the Black Lives Matter Protests
- Cloud Studies
- Torture and Detention in Cameroon
- The Murder of Halit Yozgat
- Airstrikes on the al-Jinah Mosque