Lessons from a Solo Female Filmmaker: Don’t Wait for the Right Opportunity, Create it!
Three years ago I decided to take a leap of faith and follow my dreams of being a…
'What Was I Thinking?': An Entrepreneur’s Journey with Optimism
“The crew needs a therapist, you need a therapist…even I need a therapist,” said my manager as he…
Saud Al Sanousi
This summer, I sat down with Saud Al Sanousi, the playwright of Kuwaiti musical Muthakarat Bahhar. It was…
Memory-scapes: Displacement and the Potency of Nostalgia
Mohamad Hafez, Syrian architect and activist-artist Disgruntled with the regime, in February of 2011, fifteen young school boys…
Mohammed Nassem: Reorienting Selfhood Through Design and Typography
"Orient:a place in the East,a verb of alignment and positioning, Orientation:a direction, a relative position of something or…
Boom.Diwan: An Applied Ethnomusicological Approach to the Revival of the Kuwaiti Bahri Music Spirit
Although I was born in Kuwait, my father was a diplomat and I was raised in Syria, Japan,…
Rethinking Car Culture in Bahrain
A well-built and sturdy transportation infrastructure can be extremely beneficial to a metropolis, as mobility is essential to…
An Underestimated Force: The Case of Female Entrepreneurship in Kuwait
Amira1 started her business, an independent coffee shop, at the age of 25. She would have started sooner,…
Cracking the Mold: The Case Against Binary Gender
In all unambiguously patriarchal societies—that is, in most societies of documented history and of the present1—binary models of…
On Creativity and the Gulf: An In-Flight Discussion with Cyril Zammit
Attached to the name Cyril Zammit (39) are the attributes of taste and talent. A Paris-born Frenchman of…
Khaleeji Literature: The Khaleeji Creative Imagination and its Impact on Identity
As a Khaleeji and an individual who is interested in the field of higher education and its development,…
Re-Designing Design Education in the Middle East
On a thirteen hour direct flight from New York to Kuwait, a younger version of myself sketched-out a…