Faculty

Fahed Al-Sumait is an Associate Professor of Communication at the American University of Kuwait. His research focuses on strategic communication, intercultural studies, and digital inequalities with a concentration on Kuwait and the Arabian Peninsula region of the Middle East. He has served as a Fulbright-Hays fellow for his research into contested discourses on Arab democratization, as a post-doctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and as a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-editor of the books, The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics and Trajectories (2014, Rowman & Littlefield), and Covering bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man (2015, University of Illinois Press). He is currently President of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies and has served in numerous administrative roles, including Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, Department Chair, interim Dean of Student Affairs, and Chair of the Global Studies Center during his time at the Gulf University for Science and Technology. He holds an MA from the University of New Mexico and a PhD from the University of Washington, both in Communication.