Adnan Al-Abbar is a theoretical optical physicist from Kuwait. He was born in February, 1994. He was a research associate at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, where he studied random optical media and developed economic solutions to environmental problems at the Environmental and Life Sciences Research Center, and is now a Ph.D. student in physics at Texas A&M University.

He earned his B.Sc. in physics from Kuwait University (2018) and later worked as a research assistant to M. M. Sharma. He later earned his M.Sc. in Optics from the University of Rochester (2022) under the supervision of Govind Agrawal, with Peter Milonni and Robert Boyd as co-supervisors, with a thesis titled: Optical Solitons in Nonlinear Dispersive Media. He did another M.S. thesis at Texas A&M University (2026) under Girish Agarwal, with Marlan Scully and Suhail Zubairy as co-advisors, and is projected to finish his Ph.D. there under the same PI.

Before turning to optical physics, he worked as a research assistant in nuclear physics at Kuwait University and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, where he gave lectures at conferences in Beirut (Lebanon) and Varna (Bulgaria) on exotic nuclei.

He has recently developed an interest in economics, started reading microeconomic theory in 2016, and writes articles for the Mises Institute on economic matters. He is currently working on a series of articles with Walter Block on the nature of property ownership.

He has recently developed an interest in poetry and has written dozens of poems, most of which are unpublished. This blog contains his poems, stories, and nonscholarly articles on physics, philosophy, economics, and literature, as well as some personal writings.