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Farah al-Nakib

Farah Al-Nakib is assistant professor of history and director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait. She received her M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She is currently working on her book manuscript on Kuwait’s urbanization and the historical transformation of urban space and everyday life between 1716 and 1990. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies (fall 2014), researching the effects the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait on state-building, social dynamics, and national identity. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Journal of Arabian Studies, Built Environment, City, and elsewhere.

ARTICLES BY Farah al-Nakib