Farah Al-Nakib is an Assistant Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Until 2018, Al-Nakib was an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait. She received her PhD (2011) and MA (2006) in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Al-Nakib’s research focuses on the urban social history of Kuwait before and after oil, on which she wrote her award-winning book Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life (Stanford University Press, 2016) and has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her current research analyses collective memory, forgetting, and nostalgia in relation to modernity in the Arab Gulf.

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