When Rania Dalloul, MA Theories of Urban Practice ’15, visited Al-Ahmadi, the Kuwaiti colonial oil-company town where her family formerly resided, she found little trace of relatives in the official history. “Government archives contain hundreds of photographs, yet
almost none of Arabs,” she says. “What happened to the Arab communities? After transforming Al-Ahmadi into a modern city, where did they go?” Her thesis and graphic memoir, Al-Ahmadi, shown above, engages with those questions. “By redrawing people into their own spaces
and memories, it’s possible to secure representational justice for those left out of history.”