Weaam Al-Abdullah

Weaam earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona in 2013 and a Master's in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University in 2016. Before starting her MLA, Weaam practiced as an architect and landscape designer at architectural firm Pace in Kuwait. Her dissertation examines the role of Kuwait City's AlShaheed Park in transforming mechanisms of power, to get to new ways of understanding democracy, nationalism, and modernity, and how they increase identity tensions.

During her time as a Brown Fellow, Weaam very much enjoyed engaging in and helping with events and discussions around public memory, race and ethnicity in public space, and power dynamics in landscape architecture.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Kuwait University (2021)
• Faculty Member - Studying Abroad Kuwait University (2014 — 2021)
• PHD Candidate The University of Virginia School of Architecture (2018 — 2021)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Virginia (2017 — 2018)
• PHD Student University of Virginia (2016 — 2018)
• Research Fellow University of Virginia (2017 — 2018)
• MLA Candidate Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2014 — 2016)
• Architect Pace | Architecture Engineering + Planning (2013 — 2014)
• Student The University of Arizona (2008 — 2013)

Education

• Master's degree Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2014 — 2016)
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) University of Arizona (2008 — 2013)
• High School Diploma The British School of Kuwait