The first page of the preface to Farah Al-Nakib’s Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life (Stanford University Press, 2016) begins with the author sitting in a community garden in Kuwait. She is chatting with one Maryam, who is explaining the gar..
Waleed Hazbun
Waleed Hazbun is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and a former Director of CAMES. He is the author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (2008), as well as a number of articles and essays on the critical geopolitics of the Middle East and US policy towards the region. He is currently at work on a new book project on the global politics of aviation.