Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: +965-65793103
ABOUT
Farah Al-Nakib is Assistant Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Until 2018, she was Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait. Al-Nakib received her PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2011. Her book Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life, published in 2016 by Stanford University Press, analyzes the urban social history of Kuwait before and after oil, and won the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies first book award. Her current research analyzes collective memory, forgetting, and nostalgia in the Arab Gulf, with particular focus on both the advent of oil modernity and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As a founding member of Cal Poly’s Public Humanities Collaborative, Al-Nakib is also currently involved in developing oral history and storytelling projects among underrepresented communities living on California’s central coast.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Kuwait
Specialties
Soc/pol Dynamics Of Public/private Spaces &spheres
Hist Of Urbanization & Urbanism In Kuwait City
Role Of Nat'l Heritage Sites
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
Hindi (fluent)
Italian (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| History
| School of Oriental and African Studies
MA
| 2006
| History
| School of Oriental and African Studies
BA
| 2001
| History & Journalism
| George Washington University
Abstracts
Between Urban Palimpsest and Etch-a-Sketch: Demolition, Development, and the Culture of Memory in Kuwait
Kuwait's Modern Spectacle: Oil Wealth and the Making of a New Capital City
Destructive Development: Forgetting Kuwait’s Past Through Demolition and Heritage
Shiber's City: Palestinian Urbanism in Kuwait
The Politics of Occupation: Mary Ann Tétreault’s Take on the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Being Modern in Kuwait: The Politics of Heritage and Memory Culture
