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Sarah Saad Alajami
Sarah Saad Alajmi is a PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation examines the interrelationship between architecture and ecology in twentieth-century Arabia, where she focuses on nomadic and modern settlements in the Arabian Desert. Alajmi obtained her professional Bachelor of Architecture from Kuwait University in 2017 and holds a Master of Architecture II from Yale University. She practiced as a junior architect in Kuwait and held teaching positions at Kuwait University, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Alajmi’s work focuses on transience, informality, domesticity, and poetry in the desert environment.
