Sharjah Architecture Triennal Website Dalal Musaed Alsayer is a PhD
Candidate in History and Theory of Architecture at the University of
Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, ‘Experts in the Desert: Design, Domesticity,
and the Environmental Imaginaries of Modern Arabia, 1949-61,’ examines the ways
in which Americans attempted to physically, ideologically, and socially
transform the region in the postwar years. Dalal holds a Bachelor of
Architecture from Kuwait University, Master of Science in Architecture and
Urban Design from Columbia University, and a Master in Design Studies, concentrating
in Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology from Harvard University. Her work
appears in Metropolis, MONU (volume 21 and 22), Essays, Arguments &
Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait (Niggli, 2017), and Mapping Migration,
Identity and Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is currently co-authoring
with Ricardo Camacho and Sara Saragosa on Pan-Arab Modernism: History of
Architectural Practice in The Middle East (Actar, 2019), which examines the
transfer of ideas, techniques, and practices in and around the Middle East from
the 1960s to the present.