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Nelida Fuccaro
New York University Abu Dhabi
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +97126285039
New York University Abu Dhabi
Saadiyat Island PO Box 129188
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Em
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Energy Studies
Gulf Studies
Visual Cultural
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Iraq
Arab States
India
Specialties
ME Hist 19-20th C
Urban History/Port Cities/ Oil Cities/Frontier Soc
Histories Of Oil/Public Violence/Space/Colonialism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (elementary)
Italian (native)
Education
PhD | 1995 | Ctr-ME/Islamic Stds | U of Durham
Abstracts
Understanding Violence in an Oil City: Kirkuk, 1927-1959 Reading Hashemite Kirkuk as an urban and industrial landscape of power: violence and resistance in Iraq’s early oil industry Telling Stories of Urban, Suburban and Industrial Oil Lives: Corporate Propaganda in Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain in the 1950s Oil’s Militant Public Cultures: Intertwining Past and Futures in the Making of Petroleum Arabism, 1959 -1964 Seeing like an Oil Company: the Corporate Photography of Labour in the Arab World