Joelle Deeb is an architect and researcher examining the spatial histories and politics of water systems across the Eastern Mediterranean. She is the founder and director of The Water Commons Archives, where she develops critical archival practices that reframe ecological relationality across Syria’s five major river basins. Joelle is a researcher at Urbegony. In 2025, her work was exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia and King’s College, Cambridge, and was presented in Beirut, Damascus, Sydney and Dubai. Her research has been published by MIT Press and Urbegony, among many others. Joelle is also a Cambridge Trust Scholar in Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Editor-in-Chief of Scroope: Journal of Architecture, Issue 35. Joelle is a recipient of the Prince Claus Award (2025), the Venice Biennale College Architettura Grant (2024) and the Tamayouz International Excellence Award (2023).