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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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Al-Saif, B.M., Ghabra, H.S. (2016). Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait After the Arab Spring. In: Mohamed, E., Gerber, H.R., Aboulkacem, S. (eds) Education and the Arab Spring. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-471-8_6
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