Asseel is an Associate
Professor and the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Research and Graduate Studies
at the College of Architecture at Kuwait University. She is also the
coordinator of the master’s program at the College. She teaches modern
architectural history and research, criticism and advanced design studio. Her
research focuses on urban and architectural development and housing and public
space in Kuwait - drawing links between these fields and the broader debate on
socio-cultural modernity and political engagement. She is the author of the
award-winning paper Denial of Coevalness: Discursive Practices in the
Representations of Kuwaiti Urban Modernity. She was previously a visiting
researcher and guest lecturer at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture
Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France. Currently, she is an architecture and urban
planning consultant at the Technical Advisory Committee for Architecture and
Urban Planning at the Private University Council in Kuwait.