The Time Beneath the Concrete

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme explores how settler colonialism seeks to dominate both land and time, using Palestinian refugee camps as a focal point to illustrate this dynamic. The book examines how these camps become sites where Indigenous refusal challenges attempts to erase the past, highlighting the Palestinian struggle for return as an act of resistance against settler futurity. Abourahme presents this ongoing conflict as a form of anticolonial resistance rooted in the preservation of open-ended time, rather than finality.