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Writing.

Essays on cities, walls and what happens to heritage when it is inconvenient.

Title plate: a dark map of Kuwait City with the traced arcs of its demolished city walls
Biennale di Venezia 2025 Kuwait Pavilion

The Fragile Narrative

Re-injecting the invisible city walls of Kuwait. On 4 February 1957 Kuwait decided to dismantle its third wall to make room for the automobile — and with it went a whole spatial narrative. This essay asks what a city can do with a piece of heritage it has already erased.

Published in Kaynuna, the Kuwait Pavilion book, Biennale di Venezia 2025.

More writing to follow.

Khaled Gamal · Architect Special Mention, Europan 18 · Kuwait Pavilion, Venice 2025 © 2026