Founded in 2016 by architect Sahar Qawasmi and artist Nida Sinnokrot, Sakiya started out as a nomadic enterprise and has since become permanently located on a natural and historic site within the Ein Qiniya hills outside of Ramallah. The site was gifted to them by a family from Jerusalem, and the pair have spent the last few years renovating and rewilding this land. Self-dubbed ‘a progressive academy’ that’s dedicated to agricultural research, Sakiya integrates local agrarian knowledge with ecological processes and contemporary art. The organisation’s activities include food production, exhibitions and conferences, as well as residencies and workshops enriched by a network of artists, writers, ecologists and craftspeople, both from the region and abroad. Sakiya’s force lies in the educational model it has created that roots pedagogy within the landscape, cultivating knowledge exchange and strategies of subsistence that seem all the more radical and necessary in the face of genocide and environmental collapse. Its ultimate goal is to challenge ‘the demographic divide that characterizes cultural production and consumption in Palestine’.