WRITING
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ARTICLE IN ART PAPERS
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Constructing the Environmental Imaginary: US Developmental Aid in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1953–1961,” ART PAPERS, 2023. Link to article online.
CHAPTER IN IN PLAIN SIGHT: SCENES FROM ARIDLY ABUNDANT LANDSCAPES (National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 18th Venice Biennale)
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Conspicuous: Drawing, Photograph, Map.” In In Plain Sight: Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes, The Catalogue of the UAE Pavilion at the Venice Biennale edited by Faysal Tabbarah and Meitha Almazrooei. Beirut, Lebanon: Kaph Books, 2023.
CHAPTER IN DESERTS ARE NOT EMPTY
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Anywhere, U.S.A.: Aramco’s Suburb in Saudi Arabia’s Desert.” In Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, 272-317. New York, NY: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022. Link to Book
CHAPTER IN THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1949-1961.” In The Routledge Handbook on Infrastructure Design: Global Views from Architectural History, edited by Joseph Heathcott, 258–69. Basingstoke, UK: Routledge, 2022. Link to Book
CHAPTER IN ON FORAGING
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Chicken of Tomorrow and Farm of Today: The Chicken, the Farm, and the Greenhouse.” In On Foraging: Food Knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE’s Landscape, edited by Faysal Tabbarah, Dima Srouji, and Meitha Almazrooei, 48–59. Abu Dhabi, UAE: Warehouse 421, 2021. Link to Book
PAN-ARAB MODERNISM 1968-2018
Camacho, Ricardo, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, and Sara Saragoça Soares, eds. Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018: A History of Architectural Practice in the Middle East. Print edition. Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2021.
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT IN ARCHITECTURE BEYOND EUROPE (ABE)
“Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961,” Architecture Beyond Europe (ABE) 17 (2020), Link to Article
REPORT FOR ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER
“Bringing the Machine to the House”: The IBEC System and Experimental Housing in Baghdad, Iraq, 1953-58.
CHAPTER IN MAPPING MIGRATION, IDENTITY AND SPACE
“The ‘Right to the City’ in the Landscapes of Servitude and Migration, from the Philippines to the Arabian Guld, and Back.” In Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space, edited by Tabea Linhard and Timothy Parsons, 283–311. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
ESSAY IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF KUWAIT // VOL II
“Utopian Dreams in the Making of Kuwait: From Sand and Mud to Grass and Concrete.” In Modern Architecture Kuwait. Volume 2: Essays, Arguments & Interviews, edited by Roberto Fabbri, Sara Saragoça Soares, and Ricardo Camacho, 2:222–32. Switzerland: Niggli, 2017.
GUEST CONTRIBUTION FOR THE PENN PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [PPEH]
“Modernizing the Rural: Environmental Imaginaries, Agriculture, & the TVA-Concept in the Desert, The Jordan River,1953-19XX.” Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Fellows Blog (blog), July 5, 2016. www.ppehlab.org/blogposts/2016/7/5/modernizing-the-rural-environmental-imaginaries-agriculture-and-the-tva-concept-in-the-desert-the-jordan-river-valley-1953-19xx.
Image courtesy of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
ESSAY IN MONU 21
“From Domestic Housh to Consumer Mojama’a: The Social Space of Women in Kuwait.” Magazine On Urbanism [MONU], 2014.
ESSAY IN MONU 22
“HIDDEN SPACE | SOCIAL SPACE The Spatiality of Temporary Migration Between Home and Host Countries.” Magazine On Urbanism [MONU], 2015.