in Palestinian Refugee Camps” at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), and has facilitated these public and policy aspects. His tasks have been to follow-up the first stage of the research on governance on the refugee camps in Lebanon. This research project aims to clarify the relationship between power, sovereignty and space in Palestinian refugee camps in the Arab East, during 2009–2010. This research project resulted in many publications in English, French and Arabic, including a working paper in Arabic and English. Hanafi also took part in a multi-disciplinary research team on “Poverty assessment and targeting projects for Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon.” The research team is composed of AUB faculty (a sociologist, a nutritionist, a public health specialist, and an economist) and headed by economist Dr. Jad Shaaban. The Concept of Spaciocide In his article “Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory”, Hanafi declared that his lived experience felt like what he called "spacio-cide". He lived in the West Bank (part of the Occupied Palestinian territories) in the time of the second intifada where the Israeli colonial authorities have transformed the West Bank into very small Bantustans where people live within an area of few kilometers square. He felt claustrophobic. This leads him to dig into political philosophy (such as Foucault, Agambin) to help him to understand everyday colonial Israeli practices in grape the Palestinian land and to makes the Palestinian territories almost unlivable place. From here he forged the concept of spacio-cide. Hanafi argues that the Israeli colonial project is ‘spacio-cidal’ (as opposed to genocidal) in that it targets land for the purpose of rendering inevitable the ‘voluntary’ transfer of the Palestinian population primarily by targeting the space upon which the Palestinian people live. The spacio-cide is a deliberate ideology with unified rational, albeit dynamic process because it is in constant interaction with the emerging context and the actions of the Palestinian resistance. By describing and questioning different aspects of the military-judicial-civil apparatuses, this article examines how the realization of the spacio-cidal project becomes possible through a regime that deploys three principles, namely: the principle of colonization, the principle of separation, and the state of exception that mediates between these two seemingly contradictory principles. Sociological Approach and Current Research Hanafi's approach to sociology has been greatly influenced by changes triggered by the Arab uprisings since 2011. These uprisings may have politically failed in many