Shaikha Almubaraki is a PhD Student in the Architecture Department at the University of California at Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Film and Media studies. She is specialized in the History of Architecture and Urbanisms in the Arab World from the 19th-21st century working on a dissertation that focused on the notion of the ‘Arab’ House and its Context in physical reality and visual/textual representations. She received an M.S degree in Advance Architectural Design and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Research both from the University of Columbia and completed her bachelor degree in Architecture at Kuwait University.