Samia Henni is a theorist and a historian of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments, and an assistant professor at Cornell University. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), the editor of the War Zones: gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), the convener of the 2020 Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity, and the maker of exhibitions, such as Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, and Philadelphia, 2017–19).