She is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University in Washington, DC (Fall 2014). Al-Nakib obtained her PhD (2011) and MA (2006) in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Her research primarily focuses on the urban history of Kuwait City before and after oil, and her work has been published in the Journal of Arabian Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the International Journal for Middle East Studies, Built Environment, and City (forthcoming).