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Chantal El Hayek
Pratt Institute
Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
37 Francesca Ave
Apt 1
Somerville MA 02144
United States
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
History Of Architecture
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2023 | Architecture | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS | 2015 | Architecture | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA | 2009 | Architecture | Princeton University
BA | 2005 | Architecture | Lebanese American University
Abstracts
Stars of Two Nations: The Place de l’Étoile and French Colonial Planning in Beirut Traditionalism, Consumerism, and Exhibitionist Nationalism: The Evolution of Souks in Kuwait, 1960-today Historiography of Levantine Beirut (1830–1930): Questioning Modernist and Postcolonial Narratives Kuwait National Museum: Architectural Historiography and the Changing Ethos of Modernism French Colonial Planning and the Ville Nouvelle