Kenaneya Farms: Connecting Community to the Source
Run by a young, second-generation farmer, Kenaneya Farm is located in Abdali, in northern Kuwait.
Former Research Associate
Mai Y. Al-Farhan is a former research associate at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and a regular contributor to Millennial Gulf. She is a master’s student at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Her thesis concerns reforms to the kafala sponsorship system and migrant labor in Bahrain and Qatar. She previously held research assistant positions at the United Nations Development Programme in Kuwait and Middle East Institute.
Her research interests are in the cyber applications of international relations, particularly the role nonstate actors play in exerting influence over nation states through cyber means. Beyond cyberpolitics, Al-Farhan is interested in the political economy of the Gulf Arab states.
Run by a young, second-generation farmer, Kenaneya Farm is located in Abdali, in northern Kuwait.
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