Sharifa Alshalfan is an architect and a researcher who is currently a Visiting Fellow with the LSE Kuwait Programme, based in the Middle East Centre at London School of Economics, and LSE Cities.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California and an MSc in City Design and Social Science from London School of Economics. Her research interests include land-use policies and urban governance with a focus on housing in the GCC states, mainly Kuwait. She has worked as an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects in London and at AGi Architects in Kuwait. She also consults with AGi Architects on urban issues and has taught at the School of Architecture in Kuwait University.
Contact Details
Email: salshalfan@gmail.com.
Research
Trangos, G., Adleson, I., Palominos, N., Valdez Young, A., Alshalfan, S. (2014). Reordered Publics: Re-imagining the City of London. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 18:2, 191-213. Taylor and Francis.
Alshalfan, S. (2014). The Four Hundred Square Meter: Housing a Kuwaiti Population. T Square the Architectural Magazine: housing a Kuwaiti issue, March, 8-13. Kuwait University.
Alshalfan, S. (2013). The Right to Housing in Kuwait: An Urban Injustice in a Socially Just System. LSE Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, May (28).
Media
Quoted in Hayley Birch, 'Where is the world's hottest city?', Guardian, 22 July 2015.