Articles
“Amman: City of Multi-Layered Refuge.” Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, December 11, 2025. link
“‘This Camp Is Full of Hujaj!’: Claims to Land and the Built Environment in a Contested Palestinian Refugee Camp in Amman.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 43, no. 3 (December 1, 2023): 275–92. pdf
“When the Palestinian Refugee Camp Became a ‘Squatter Settlement.’” Journal of Refugee Studies, March 25, 2025. pdf
Edited Books
Mapping Jabal Al-Nathif. Co-edited with Mohammad Aljabi, Liyan Jabi, Christoph Lueder, and Alexandru Malaescu. Apograf Publishers, 2014. pdf
Conference Proceedings
“Socio-Spatial Reader: Exploring the Potential of Narrative in Jabal Al Natheef Informal Camp.” Co-authored with Ohoud Kamal in Transformation of the Urban Character of Arab Cities, edited by Bushra Zalloom and Mohsen Aboutorabi, 122–39. Birmingham City University Press, 2015. pdf
Interviews
BU Humanists at Work: Heba Alnajada, Assistant Professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Architecture. Interview by Sophia Jackson. January 22, 2026
Land, Camps, and the Remains: Heba Alnajada on the History of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Interview by Julia Sizek. Social Science Matrix website. November 3, 2021.