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Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait After the Arab Spring

Identity Construction & Ideologies of Domination in the American University of Kuwait
  • Bader Mousa Al-Saif
  • Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra
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Abstract

In 2014, the American University of Kuwait (AUK) celebrated its ten-year anniversary with fanfare (AUK Commemoration, 2014). AUK hails its journey a success story. The numbers certainly support AUK’s claim. AUK has increased its student body population three times in five years: it has gone from 767 students in its second academic year (2005–2006) to 2288 students in 2011–2012 (PUC Statistics, 2015).

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High Education Missionary School Western Education Islamic Study American Professor 
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