Nezar AlSayyad

Nezar Al Sayyad (born October 10, 1956) is an Architect, City Planner, Urban Designer, and Urban Historian, a Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley in the College of Environmental Design, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the most prestige and highest honor the University of California bestows on its faculty for exceptional teaching. Educated as an architect, planner, and urban historian, AlSayyad is principally an urbanist whose specialty is the study of cities, their urban forms and spaces, and their impact on their social and cultural realities. As a scholar, AlSayyad has authored and edited several books on colonialism, identity, Islamic architecture, tourism, tradition, urbanism, urban design, urban history, urban informality, and virtuality.

In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), a scholarly association concerned with the study of indigenous vernacular and popular built environments around the world. In the same year he founded the area of Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Countries (EDUDC), an interdisciplinary area of research that connects history, theory, social processes, and design at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. As an academic advisor, AlSayyad's commitment is evident in his mentorship that led to graduation of more than 50 Ph.D. students in both Architecture and Planning in addition to supervising more than a hundred M.Arch, MCP and MUD theses during his 33 year career at Berkeley.

AlSayyad has also produced and co-directed two public television video documentaries: “Virtual Cairo” and “At Home with Mother Earth.” Among his numerous grants are those received from the U.S. Department of Education, NEA—Design Arts Program, Getty Grant Program, the Graham Foundation, the SSRC, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His awards include the Beit Al-Quran Medal from Bahrain, the Pioneer American Society Book Award, and the American Institute of Architects Education Honors. AlSayyad maintains a small architecture and urban design practice XXA- The Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture which provides design and consulting work to various clients in the US and several Developing Countries. AlSayyad is invited as a visiting Professor and as a lecturer in more than 40 countries, and is recognized around the World as both a scholar and a public intellectual.

AlSayyad is currently the President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), and Faculty Director of the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies (CASES). He is a member of the Urban Design Graduate Group (MUD) and the Global Studies Graduate Group. For almost two decades AlSayyad also chaired the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Berkeley leading it to International standing.

Specializations

• History of Architecture and Urbanism
• Cinematic Urbanism and Virtual Reality
• Colonialism and Hybrid Urbanism
• Cultural Heritage and policy
• Environmental Design and urbanism in Developing Countries
• Housing and International Development
• Islamic Architecture and Middle Eastern Cities
• Religious fundamentalisms and the city
• Traditional Dwelling and Settlements
• Urban Design
• Urban History
• Urban Informality

Academic Biography and Education

Nezar AlSayyad was born in Cairo, Egypt to a family of educators. His father was a well-known geographer, poet and a major intellectual in Egypt. AlSayyad was born with a mind of a philosopher, he was attracted to historical facts that he was absorbing from books that he could find in the house. His other interest was in building, building something with his hands, creating designs in his mind and analyzing architectural and city forms. After spending a year in Norman, Oklahoma as a child, AlSayyad at a young age decided to return and make his life in America. Following his graduation from the same High School from which Edward Said had graduated, AlSayyad joined Cairo University where he excelled as both an undergraduate and graduate student obtaining his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering in 1977 and his Higher Diploma - Town Planning in 1979. In 1981, AlSayyad finished his M.S. in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He then went on to work for Yamasaki & Associates, architects of the World Trade Center, before accepting his first professorial position at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (UPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. After publishing his first book, AlSayyad was invited by the then well-known architectural historian Spiro Kostof to join Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D. in Architectural and urban history, where AlSayyad also landed at a lecturer position in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the same college. By the time of his Ph.D. completion in 1988, AlSayyad had established the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) where he served and still serves as the President and the Chief Editor of the Association's highly acclaimed peer-reviewed journal "Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review." ^[1]

Books

• Whose Tradition?. Co-edited with Mark Gillem and David Moffat. Routledge: London, 2017.
• Traditions: The Real, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment. Routledge: London, 2014.
• Cairo: Histories of a City. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2011.
• The Fundamentalist City? Co-edited with Mejgan Massoumi. Routledge: London, 2010.
• Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern From Reel to Real. Routledge: London & New York, 2006.
• Making Cairo Medieval. Co-edited with Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabbat. Lexington Books: Lanham & London, 2005.
• Müslüman Avrupa ya da Avro-Islam. Co-edited with Manuel Castells. Istanbul: Everest, 2004 (In Turkish).
• The End of Tradition? Editor. Routledge: London & New York, 2003.
• Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. Co-edited with Ananya Roy. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2003.
• Europa Musulmana O Euro-Islam. Barcelona: Alianza Editorial/Ensayo, 2003 (In Spanish).
• Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam. Co-edited with Manuel Castells. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2002.
• Consuming Tradition/Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in an Age of Tourism. Routledge: London, New York, 2001.
• Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment. Greenwood/Praeger: New York and Westport, 2001.
• Al Mudun fi Sadr al-Islam: The Early Cities of Islam. Beit Al-Quran: Bahrain, 1996 (in Arabic).
• Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise. Editor. Avebury: London and Aldershot, 1992.
• Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism. Greenwood Press: New York, Westport, and London, 1991.
• Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition. Co-edited with Jean-Paul Bourdier. University Press of America: New York, Lanham, and London, 1989.
• The Design and Planning of Housing. Editor. UPM Press: Dhahran & Houston, 1984.
• Streets of Islamic Cairo; A Configuration of Urban Themes and Patterns. Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AKP: Cambridge, 1981.

Public Lectures and Meeting Presentations

• Mar 2018, “Open Conversations with Nezar AlSayyad”, Invited talk, at Dar Al-Labana Lecture Series, Cairo, Egypt.
• Mar 2018, Symposium on Urban Governance, “Opening Address on Urban Governance,”, in a Comparative Perspective, King Salman Center for Local Governance, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Feb 2018, “Legitmating Heritage,” in Preserving Iraq’s Heritage, Keynote address, in a Postwar Era Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
• Feb 2018, “On the Possibilities of Urban Citizenship”, Paper Presentation, at the Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar, CRASSH Working Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Jan 2018, Architecture Curriculum Workshop, “Opening address”, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
• Dec 2017, “Heritage and Architecture”, Keynote address, in Balkan Patterns Conference, Balkan Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia
• Dec 2017, “An Architecture Conversation,”, Invited talk, Hindu School of Architecture, Sonipat, India
• Dec 2017, “Urban History vs. History of Planning,” Short one week course, Main Lecturer, at School of Architecture and Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India.
• Oct 2017, “Tradition, Heritage and politics,”, Invited Public Lecturer, at Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
• Jul 2017, “Architecture, Heritage and Tourism”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in Architecture and Tourism Conference, held at the Sorbonne, Paris, France.
• May 2017, “Tourism and Fundamentalism”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in Tourism and Patrimony Conference, Universite Laval, Québec, Canada.
• Apr 2017, “Arab Culture at the Cross-Road”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in First International Memaryat Conference, Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Apr 2017, “Architecture and Identity, Invited Public Lecture, in the Age of Globalization” at Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, Catholic Unviersity of America, Washington, D.C.
• Mar 2017, “Cairo: Consuming Tradition” at Sustaining Heritage, Invited keynote address, in the Digital Age Conference, Cairo, Egypt.
• Feb 2017, at the Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar, Invited Discussant, CRASSH Working Group,University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Nov 2016, “The Power of Place”, Invited public lecture, in International Studies Institute Lecture Series, University of Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Nov 2016, “The State of Arab Urbanism”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in 5th International Architectural Conference of the Jordanian Engineers Association, Amman, Jordan.
• Nov 2016, “Fundamentalism and the City”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in Symposium of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities, Berlin, Germany.
• Oct 2016, “Inclusion and Exclusion in Arab Cities”, Invited talk, in Pluralism and Community in the Middle East Symposium, Center for International Regional Studies, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar.
• Apr 2016, “Architecture and Globalization, Invited public lecture, in the Middle East” in at School of Architecture Lecture Series, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
• Apr 2016, “Heritage and the Problem of Tradition”, Invited public lecture, at Institut du PatrimoineCulturel, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
• Feb 2016, “Is Urban Citizenship Possible?”, Invited Speaker, at Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar, CRASSH Working Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Jan 2016, “The Death and Life of the Fundamentalist City,”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in the International Conference Religious Pluralism and the City, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Nov 2015, “Architecture and National Identity,”, Invited Keynote Speaker, in Learning from Education City Conference, Doha, Qatar.
• Oct 2015, “Globalization and Architecture,”, Invited public lecture, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Sep 2015, “Urban Uprising: Middle East and Elsewhere,”, Invited public lecture, School of Architecture, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• Sep 2015, “On Tahrir Square,”, Invited public lecture, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Jun 2015, “Diversity and Change from the Vernacular to the Global,”, Invited Keynote Speaker, at Delivering Diversity for the 21stCentry Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• Jun 2015, “Virtual Uprisings and the Architecture of Revolt,”, Invited public lecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• Jun 2015, “From the Arab ‘Spring’ to the Arab ‘Winter’:, Invited public lecture, Urban Uprisings and Social Media,” CAMEA Lecture Series, School of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• Apr 2015, “Urban Uprisings and Virtual Media,”, Invited public lecture, Columbia University Global Center, Amman, Jordan.
• Mar 2015, “Globalization and the Architecture of the Middle East,”, Invited public lecture, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
• Feb-2015, From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street, Invited Keynote Speaker, at Rethinking Global Cities Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC.
• Feb-2015, The Struggle for Citizenship, Discussant, at Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Symposium, CRASSH Working Group, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
• Dec-2014, Whose Tradition?, Opening and closing remarks at, the 14th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Nov-2014, Vernacular to Modern: Discourses on Tradition, Invited lecture, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
• Oct-2014, The State of Research in Vernacular Architecture, Invited Keynote Speaker, at the 7th International Symposium on Vernacular Settlements, organized by Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Oct-2014, From Tahrir to Occupy Central, Invited lecture, Lecture Series of the School of Architecture at Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
• Sep-2014, Fundamentalism and Revolution, Invited lecture, Lecture Series of the School of the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore NUS, Singapore.
• Sep-2014, Tahrir and the Virtual Uprising, Invited lecture, Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, National University of Singapore NUS, Singapore.
• Jan-2014, From Vernacularism to Globalization: Settlement in the Arab World, Invited Speaker, Lecture Series of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiya, The Islamic Museum, Kuwait, U.A.E.
• Oct-2013, The Struggle for Egypt, Keynote Speaker, Middle East Futures Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
• May-2013, Cities and the Arab Spring, Invited Keynote Speaker, Yale Alumni Association Arab Conference entitled, "Navigating the Tides: Urban Transformation in the Arab World,", Doha, Qatar.
• Mar-2013, Religion & the Cities of the Arab Spring, Invited Keynote Speaker, the Ajman International Conference on Urban Planning, Ajman, U.A.E
• Oct-2012, The Myth of Tradition, Opening and Closing remarks, the 13th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Portland, Oregon.
• May-2012, The Arab Spring: An International Symposium, Symposium Chair and Speaker, organized by Istanbul Ayden University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• May-2012, Fundamentalism, Religiosity and the City, Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Religious Violence and Cities, Queens University, Belfast.
• May-2012, The 'Islam', 'Arab', 'Middle Eastern' City: Reflection on an Urban Concept, Invited Keynote Speaker, The City Debates 2012 Conference, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
• Mar-2012, Cities of the Arab Spring, Invited Keynote Speaker, Urban Revolution in the Age of Global Urbanism Conference, Tarumangara University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Mar-2012, Modernity Struggles of the Islamic City in a Global Context, Invited Keynote Speaker, Planning Turkish Cities Conference, Organized by the Municipality of Pursaklan and Yildirim Bayezit University, Ankara, Turkey.
• Mar-2012, Culture, Heritage and Identity, Invited Speaker and Moderator, Qatar Urban Forum, Cannes, France.
• Feb-2012, The Religious City, the Fundamentalist City, Invited Keynote Speaker, Global Prayers Conference, organized by the House of World Cultures Museum, Berlin, Germany.
• Jun-2011, Tradition, Identity, Culture, and the Arts in Central China., Keynote Speaker, Art and Design Forum, Jingdazhen and Chong Qing, China.
• Apr-2011, The Middle East in Context, Session co-chair, at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, New Orleans, LA.
• Apr-2011, The Fundamentalist City or Medieval Modernity, Invited Speaker, Lecture Series of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund, Sweden.
• Mar-2011, Tahrir Square Earns its Name, Keynote Speaker, Symposium on the Future of Tahrir Square, Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
• Mar-2011, Fundamentalism, Medievalism, and Urbanism, Invited Speaker, Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Castle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• Dec-2010, Utopia of Tradition, Opening remarks at, the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Oct-2010, Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition., Invited Speaker, Lecture Series at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• Oct-2010, Cinematic Urbanism in the Middle East, Session Chair, at the Second Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA).
• Jul-2010, Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition, Keynote Speaker, 3rd international conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place, hosted by Arte-Polis 3 and the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia.
• Jun-2010, The Fundamentalist City?, Invited speaker, at the Megacities Workshop, sponsored by the New Encyclopedia Project, University of California, Irvine.
• Mar-2010, Ajman International Conference: Sustainable Development Reshaping Cities, Invited Speaker and Session Chair, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.
• Nov-2009, Peer Review Colloquium, Invited assessor at, at Delft University, Netherlands.
• Sep-2009, Identity, Culture, and Urbanism, Invited keynote speaker, at the conference Urban Identities, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Jul-2009, Problematizing Urban Modernity, Invited speaker, in the Concept of Urban Change Symposium, Les Treilles Foundation, France.
• May-2009, New Research in the Field of Urban Studies, Invited speaker, presentation on, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Feb-2009, Neither Homogeneity nor Heterogeneity: Modernity Struggles, Invited speaker, at the Knowledge of Construction Workshop, for the Aga Khan Development Network Seminar in Vancouver, Canada.
• Dec-2008, Interrogating Tradition, Opening remarks at, the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Oxford, England.
• Oct-2008, Colonial Modernities Conference and Exhibit, Invited keynote speaker, organized by the House of World Cultures Museum in Berlin, German
• Mar-2008, Heritage and Tradition, Invited speaker, Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, MN.
• Jan-2008, The Modernity of Ethnicity and Race in the Cinematic City of the 1980s, Invited keynote speaker, at the conference Globalization, Violence, and Visual Cultures, University of London Institute, Paris, France.
• Dec-2007, The End of Tradition in the Middle East Region, Invited speaker, Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture & Design, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.
• Oct-2007, Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition, Invited speaker, Hearst Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.
• May-2007, Spin and Journalism: An Uneasy Coexistence, Invited plenary session moderator of, at the Annual Conference of the International Press Institute, Istanbul Turkey.
• Apr-2007, Empire and the Clash of Civilizations, Invited plenary session organizer of, at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Doha, Qatar.
• Apr-2007, Open Session Track at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Invited chair of the, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Mar-2007, Post-Tradition, Hyper-Traditions and the End of Tradition, Invited keynote speaker, at the Annual Conference of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage, Bruges, Belgium.
• Dec-2006, Hyper-Traditions, Opening remarks at, the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Dec-2006, South of Doxiades: Other Ideas from Egypt, Invited keynote speaker, at the Space and Progress Conference, Athens, Greece.
• Nov-2006, Urban Inclusion, Invited speaker, at the Inclusive Cities Conference at the Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain.
• Jun-2006, Inclusive Cities Working Group, Invited participant at the, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
• May-2006, Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition, Invited speaker, at the California House, University of California Trust, London, U.K.
• Apr-2006, Architects’ Architectural Histories, Session chair and organizer of, at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah Georgia.
• Mar-2006, Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition, Invited speaker, at the New Heritage Forum, University of Hong Kong.
• Mar-2006, Berkeley Club of Hong Kong, Invited guest speaker at the, and co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects, Hong Kong.
• Feb-2006, Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in the Changing World, Invited keynote speaker, at the First International Symposium on Environment Behavior: People in Place in People, University of Sydney, Australia.
• Jan-2006, Shangri-La Unfolding: Place, Space, Decorative Art, Invited speaker and discussant at the, held at the Doris Duke Foundation in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Sep-2005, Medieval Modernity/ Hybrid Urbanism, Invited keynote speaker, at the Santa Fe Conference of the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
• Jul-2005, Heritage, Tradition and Their Limits, Invited keynote speaker, International Fellows Program, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
• Apr-2005, Democracy and Global Islam Conference, Opening remarks at the, University of California, Berkeley.
• Apr-2005, ‘Double Readings’: Encounters between Islam and the West, Session chair and organizer of, at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, B.C.
• Mar-2005, Virtual Cairo Reconsidered, Invited speaker, Lecture Series at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Mar-2005, Visualizing Cairo, Invited speaker, Lecture Series at Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, NY.
• Feb-2005, Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition, Invited keynote speaker, at the 4th Annual Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, Savannah, GA.
• Feb-2005, The End of Tradition and Medieval Modernity: At the Dawn of a Post Global Era, Invited speaker, at the American University of Sharjah, UAE
• Dec-2004, Post-Traditional Environments in a Post-Global World, Opening remarks at, The Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Dubai, UAE.
• Nov-2004, Globalization, Urbanization, and Development Symposium, Invited speaker at the, organized by the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
• Oct-2004, Virtual Cairo, Invited talk, at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley, CA.
• Jul-2004, Identity and Cultural Domination, Invited keynote address, at Barcelona Cultural Forum, Dialogue on Globalization and Diversity, Barcelona, Spain.
• Jul-2004, Medieval Modernity, Speaker, (with Ananya Roy) at the Annual Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS,) Barcelona, Spain.
• Feb-2004, Outreach and Public Programs in a Polarized Context, Keynote address, at the Fourth Annual Conference of National Resource Center Directors, United States Department of Education, Santa Fe, NM.
• Apr-2003, Regional Implications of the War, Address at the Chancellor's forum, Implications of the War in Iraq, organized by International Area Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
• Apr-2003, Consuming Tradition in an Area of Preservation, Lecture Series at American University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
• Mar-2003, Manufacturing Heritage: Middle Eastern Perspectives, Keynote address, at Local Sites of Global Practice: The Middle East, Yale University.
• Dec-2002, Unbounding Tradition, Opening remarks at, The Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Hong Kong.
• Apr-2001, Hybrid Urbanism: Middle Eastern Perspectives, at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
• Oct-2000, The End of Tradition, Opening Remarks at, the Seventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Trani, Italy
• May-2000, Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus Interpretation, Invited talk, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Dec-1999, On the Manufacture of Heritage in the age of Tourism, Invited keynote speaker, at the Heritage and Tourism Conference organized by the Government of Hong Kong.
• Dec-1998, Manufacturing Heritage/ Consuming Tradition, Opening Remarks at, the Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Cairo, Egypt.
• Mar-1998, Virtual Cairo: Telling History to a General Public, Invited talk, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• Feb-1998, Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus Interpretation, Invited talk, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Jan-1998, Virtual Cairo: The Making of a Multimedia Project, Invited talk, at the Berkeley Multimedia Resource Center Annual Conference, University of California at Berkeley.
• Nov-1997, Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History, Public presentation, at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley.
• Apr-1997, The Courtyard House Across Cultures Conference, Closing remarks at, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Dec-1996, Identity, Tradition and Built Form, Opening remarks at, the Fifth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley, California, USA.
• Jul-1996, Housing and Globalization, Invited talk, at Housing and Culture Conference held at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Jul-1996, Housing, Identity and Culture, Invited talk, at HABITAT II: The City Summit, organized by the United Nations, Istanbul, Turkey.
• May-1996, Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism, Invited talk, at The America Institute for Maghribi Studies, Tangier, Morocco.
• Apr-1996, The Temporal Reality of Traditional Habitats, Invited paper, at the United Nations Development Programme Conference: The Next Millennium: Cities for People in a Globalizing World, Marmaris, Turkey.
• Aug-1995, Some Thoughts on Housing Alternatives, Invited lecture and Workshop, at the Ministry of Development, Bandan Sir Begawan, Brunei.
• Jun-1995, Arab Architecture and the Issue of Identity, Invited lecture, at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• May-1995, Third World Architecture and the Question of Housing, Invited lecture, at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Capetown and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• Apr-1995, Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing World, Invited lecture, at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, USA.
• Feb-1995, The Early Cities of Islam, Public Lecture Series of Beit Al-Quran in Manama, Bahrain.
• Jan-1995, Traditional Architecture: The Myth and Reality, Invited keynote address, at the Bahrain Society of Engineers Conference held in Manama, Bahrain.
• Dec-1994, Traditional Settlements: From Colonialism to Globalization, Keynote address, at Value in Tradition, the Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Tunis, Tunisia.
• Nov-1994, Housing and the Nation-State: The Case of Tunisia, Invited lecture, at the American Research Center in Tunis, Tunisia.
• Nov-1994, Local Planning Practices in the United States, Invited lecture, at Technological Institute of Art, Architecture, and Urbanism of Tunisia (ITAAUT), Tunis, Tunisia.
• Sep-1994, The Traditional Architecture and Urbanism of the Islamic World, Invited lecture, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Nevada, USA.
• May-1994, Computer Simulation: Medieval Islamic Cities, at the Bologna Symposium on New Methods in Architectural Media, organized by the School of Architecture, Ferrara, Italy.
• Apr-1994, At Home with Mother Earth: Akkiwan., Public Presentation of the video documentary co-written and co-produced by Nezar AlSayyad, College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA.
• Apr-1993, Medieval Urbanism in Europe and the Middle East, Invited lecture, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Dec-1992, Buildings and Projects, Invited lecture, at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
• Oct-1992, Development vs. Tradition, Opening remarks at, the Third Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Paris, France.
• Jul-1992, Balance and Imbalance, Invited lecture, at the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Urbino, Italy.
• Apr-1992, The Islamic City: On the Transfer of Ideas, Invited lecture, at the San Francisco Planning Department, Lecture Series, San Francisco, California.
• Apr-1992, The Genesis of Cairo and Its Development, Keynote lecture, at the Egyptian American Organization Annual Event, Los Angeles, California.
• Mar-1992, An Architect Between Two Worlds, Invited lecture, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Mar-1992, Ph.D. Programs in Architecture and the Academic-Professional Linkage, at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.
• Nov-1991, Architectural Education and the Global Transformations, Keynote lecture, at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Administrators Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Jul-1991, Dwelling Form and Desert Culture, Keynote lecture, at the Design for Desert Living Conference, organized by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• May-1991, Housing Policy and Housing Form, Keynote Lecture, at the Housing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Conference organized by the School of Architecture of the University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
• Apr-1991, Baghdad and Al-Qahirah: On the Genesis of Urban Form, at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Oct-1990, A Course of Action, Concluding remarks, at First World/Third World: Duality and Coincidence in Traditional Environments, the Second Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• Nov-1989, Architectural Education and the First World/Third World Dilemma: A Symposium, at Third International Forum on Built Form and Culture Research, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
• Oct-1989, The Early Towns of Arab Islam: Towards a History of Planning, at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Apr-1989, Basra and Kouffa: Arab and Western Attitudes on Muslim Urban Form, at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
• Nov-1988, The Arab Muslim Garrison Town, at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Jun-1988, Urban Open Space Between East and West, Invited speaker, at the Public Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
• Apr-1988, The Study of Traditional Environments, Opening remarks, at the International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• Nov-1987, Towards a Cross Cultural Interpretation of City Form, at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Los Angeles, California.
• Nov-1987, On the Physical Form of the Pre Industrial Muslim City, at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Oct-1987, The Concept of Urban Renewal: Comparative Notes, at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Housing Science, Berlin, Germany.
• Jun-1987, Interpreting the Form of Urban Space: Open Space and Urban Activity in a Cross Cultural Perspective, at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 18 Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
• Jul-1986, Ethics and Housing Policy in the Third World, Invited speaker, at EDGE: Ethics of Development in the Global Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
• Apr-1986, Notes on the Islamic City, at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 17 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Jul-1984, Urban Space in the Islamic City of Cairo, at the Seminar on Housing in the Islamic City, Islamic Capitals Organization Conference, Ankara, Turkey.
• Sep-1983, Preserving the Spaces of the Islamic City, A Case Study of Cairo, at The International Symposium for the Conservation of the Old City of Aleppo, Syrian Architects Syndicate & the University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.
• Dec-1982, Small Towns versus New Towns: An Assessment of National Development Policies in the Middle East, at Small Town in National Development: Towards Rural Urban Integration in Developing Countries, International Symposium, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Sep-1982, Some Patterns in Islamic Urban Design: The Role of Space, Past and Present, at the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, Annual Conference on Science and Technology for Muslim World Development, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
• Apr-1981, Lessons from the Past: Facade Architecture of Medieval Cairo, Invited paper, at the American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Jan-1981, Some Visual Aspects of Streets in Medieval Cairo, Invited paper, at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Mar-1979, Agricultural Development versus Urban Development, at International Youth Congress on Food and Development, Cairo, Egypt.

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