Currently on research leave from SPSU, Liz Martin-Malikian is conducting fieldwork exploring postwar reconstruction in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the University of Edinburgh postgraduate program. While there, Liz also curating a Pop-up Studio-X Beirut for Columbia University’s global networking program creating an educational forum to explore the future of the city. Made-up of local practitioners, academic scholars and neighborhood activists, the forum works as a global network for sharing ideas and projects about the built environment in postwar Beirut.