Reem Alissa is an assistant professor at Kuwait University’s College of Architecture in the Department of Architecture. She is trained as an architect, landscape architect, urban designer and urban historian. She has a Master of Architecture from Tulane University, and both a Master in Landscape Architecture, as well as, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University. Reem holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. Her doctoral work is the first academically documented urban history of Ahmadi for which she received the “Best Dissertation Award 2013” by The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. Her research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on the interrelations between the built environment and the social sphere and fall under the larger categories of space and power, global urban histories, and contemporary patterns in landscapes and urban formations. Before her appointment at Kuwait University Reem studied, lived, and worked in North America for two decades. During this time, she worked as an architect intern for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s offices in New York and Washington D.C., she taught undergraduate courses at UC Berkeley, and undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and worked as a landscape and urban designer at the landscape architecture firm van der Zalm and Associates in Vancouver.

Architecture & Urban Planning

History Of Architecture

Urban Studies

Gulf Studies

Colonialism

Modernization

Environment

Kuwait

Gulf

All Middle East

Arabic (advanced)

English (advanced)