Publications:

  • 2009 Bahrain Design Valley: School of Design and Architecture, Towards Informal Learning Environments (first prize-winning graduation project, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain)
  • 2010 Ministry of Culture (2010). RECLAIM: Kingdom of Bahrain National Participation in Venice Biennale 2010. Manama , Available from: http://www.reclaim.bh/publication.html.
  • 2012 Al-Khalifa, F. (2012). An Urban Healing Agenda for Reform in Bahrain: Where the Dweller Falls into the Urban Gap and the Sailing Boat Hits the Skyscraper. University of Sheffield. Winner of the RIBA President's Awards for Research 2013.
  • 2013 Al-Khalifa, F. (2013). Potentials and constraints of urban sustainability in the Arabian Gulf: the case of Bahrain and Kuwait. In: Zubir SS and Brebbia CA (eds), The Sustainable City VIII, WIT Press Publishing.
  • 2013 Al-Khalifa, F. (2013). An urban healing agenda for reform in Bahrain: where the dweller falls into the urban gap and the sailing boat hits the skyscraper. In: Brebbia CA (ed.), Sustainable Development and Planning VI, Wessex: WIT Press Publishing
  • 2015 Al-Khalifa, F. (2015). Urban Sustainability in the Transforming Culture of the Arabian Gulf: The Case of Bahrain. University of Sheffield.
  • 2016 Al Khalifa, F. (2016). Achieving Urban Sustainability in the Island City of Bahrain: University Education, Skilled Labor, and Dependence on Expatriates. Urban Island Studies, 2, 95-120.
  • 2017 Al Khalifa, F. (2017). In Urban Sustainability: Towards a civilized Sustainable Bahrain. Gulf News, Al Nisr Publishing, p.9. Available at: http://www.akhbar-alkhaleej.com/source/14256/pdf/3-MAIN/9.pdf.
  • 2017 Al Khalifa, F. (2017). Autonomy in Architectural Education: A Bahrain Prespective. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, 11(2), 24–33.
  • 2018 Al Khalifa, F. (2018). Hope, utopia, and creativity in higher education: pedagogical tactics for alternative futures. Journal of Higher Education Research & Development. http://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1467589​
  • 2018 Al khalifa, F. (2018). Bahrain World Trade Center: an Environmental Experimental Design. In S. N. Samman (Ed.), Human Factors and Ergonomics for the Gulf Cooperation Council: Processes, Technologies, and Practices. London & New York: CRC Press.
  • 2018 Al-Khalifa, F. A. (2018) ‘International Sustainability Rating Tools: A Methodology for Adoption to Local Contexts’, in Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Mitigating Risks and Emergency Planning. KnE Engineering, pp. 274–297. doi: 10.18502/keg.v3i7.3109.
  • 2018 Alkhalifa, F., Almurbati, N., Silva, J. P. and Wilkins, A. (2018) ‘Visual Discomfort Health Concerns in the Future Cities of the Arabian Gulf: Case of Bahrain’, in Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Mitigating Risks and Emergency Planning. KnE Life Sciences, pp. 128–138. doi: 10.18502/kls.v4i6.3096.
  • ​2019 Alkhalifa, F. A. (2019) ‘Adaptation of international sustainability rating tools to Bahrain: A comparative analysis of eleven systems’, Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, Vol. 13 Issue: 1, pp.169-193, https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-12-2018-0022.
  • 2019 Al Khalifa, F. (2019). Sustainable Smart Urbanism Indicators in Bahrain. In 2nd Smart Cities Symposium. Manama: Institution of Engineering and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2019.0198
  • 2019 Nickahdar, F., & Al Khalifa, F. (2019). Smart Sustainable Neighbourhood Design: A Prototype for Bahrain. In 2nd Smart Cities Symposium. Bahrain: Institution of Engineering and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2019.0197.
  • 2019 Al Khalifa, F. (2019). Achieving Sustainable Urbanism through Architectural Education: A Move Back to a Learning-by-Doing Pedagogy. The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 13(4), 1–16. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1662/CGP/v13i04/1-16
  • 2020 Alkhalifa, F., Wilkins, A., Almurbati, N., & Pinelo, J. (2020). Examining the visual effect of trypophobic repetitive pattern in contemporary urban environments: Bahrain as a case for middle east countries. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 44(1), 44-51. https://doi.org/10.3846/jau.2020.11142