From Urbicide to Ecocide: Spatial Justice and Environmental Violence in Sweida, Syria

What does it mean to destroy not just a city, but the very conditions that make return possible? Spatial planner Marh Echtai examines the July 2025 assault on Suweida through the interlocking frameworks of urbicide, domicide, and ecocide, arguing that the violence visited upon the Druze community was not a security operation gone wrong, but a deliberate, layered strategy of spatial erasure.

Title: From Urbicide to Ecocide: Spatial Justice and Environmental Violence in Sweida, Syria
Author: Marh Echtai
Published by: Arab Reform Initiative
Date: April 2026
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