Ali A. Alkandari

E-mail: ali.alkandari@ku.edu.kw

Phone: 00965-24632855

EDUCATION

  • University of Exeter, PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Spring 2014
  • Georgetown University, Masters of Arts in Arab Studies, Spring 2009
  • Kuwait University, Bachelor of Arts, 2004 (Major: History; Minor: Arabic language and Literature)
  • CONTACTS

  • Abdullah Almubarak Alsabah Area - Kuwait University - Building of Arts College - History Department - First Floor - Office No. 1022
  • E-mail: ali.alkandari@ku.edu.kw
  • Phone: 00965-24632855

  • ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION

  • April 2018
    London
    Lecture on “Islamists in the Gulf: Current Challenges and Future Trends,” Chatham House,
  • December 2016
    Kuwait
    Lecture on “Social Transformation in Kuwait during 1980s,” Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah
  • March 2016
    Kuwait
    Presenting a Paper on "Kuwaiti Support for the Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962" at the Conference of Abdullah Al-Salem Era, Kuwait University
  • February 2016
    Washington DC
    Lecture on "Elections of 2013 in Kuwait and the National Identity" at the AGSIW Conference National Identity and National Projects in the Arab Gulf States
  • September 2015
    Paris
    Lecture on "The 1990-1991 Gulf Crisis and its Effects on Arab-Arab and Arab-European Relations" at the Conference of Europe and the Arabian Peninsula 19th – 21th Centuries.
  • September 2014
    London
    Lecture on “Salafism in Kuwait,” Chatham House

  • PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

    “The Development of Kuwaiti Islamists’ Political Ideology: The Administration of the Kuwaiti Supreme Committee and the Free Kuwait Campaign during the Second Gulf Crisis 1990–91,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 5 (March 2019).
    “Writings of Dickson Family in Kuwait: A Critical Historical Study,” Egyptian Historian Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 2019).


    “Iran’s stance Toward the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait 1990-1991: The Positive Neutralism,” Annals of the Faculty of Arts Ain Shams University, Vol. 44, No. 4 (October 2016).


    EXPERIENCE

  • Instructor at Kuwait University – History Department; Kuwait, 2014 – Now.
  • President of National Union of Kuwaiti Students 2012 – 2013
  • Member of National Union of Kuwaiti Students 2010 – 2012
  • Member of the Society of the History and Archeology in the GCC.
  • Research Assistant at the Kuwait University History Department, 2005
  • Participated in number of TV interviews on Gulf Contemporary History and Politics such as al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English, Mont Carlo, and Al Arabi.
  • LANGUAGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

    MS Office, Arabic and English platforms
    Arabic language: Native (reading, writing, speaking).
    English language: Excellent (reading, writing, speaking)
    French language: Medium (reading, writing, speaking(.

    GALLERY