Yara Sharif (PS) is a Palestinian architect and academic based in the UK. Through research and design, her work seeks to disrupt colonial power structures and hierarchies of knowledge production, advocating for alternative narratives and spatial practices that challenge erasure.

She co-founded the Palestine Regeneration Team and Architects for Gaza (AFG), a global platform of architects, academics, planners, and researchers committed to Gaza and Palestine through principles of spatial justice and decoloniality.

Her book Architecture of Resistance, along with her broader work on reimagining spatial possibilities in Palestine, has received several prestigious awards and has been widely exhibited and published.