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NEZAR ALSAYYAD Curriculum Vitae as of March 2011 ______________________________________________________________________________________ ARCHITECT, PLANNER, URBAN HISTORIAN & EDUCATOR AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION - Architectural and Urban History - Cross-cultural Design - Cities and Cinema - Cultural studies of the built environment - Environmental Design in Developing Countries - Housing and Urban Development - Islamic Architecture and Urbanism - Middle Eastern Studies - Traditional Dwelling and Settlements - Urban Design & Urban Design History - Virtual Reality ______________________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Architecture 232 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-1800 Office (510) 642-4852 Fax (510) 643-5571 Center for Middle Eastern Studies 340 Stephens Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 Office (510) 642-8208 Fax (510) 643-3001 IASTE 390 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1839 Office (510) 642-6801 Fax (510) 643-5571 ______________________________________________________________________________________

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NEZAR ALSAYYAD Curriculum Vitae as of March 2011 ______________________________________________________________________________________ ARCHITECT, PLANNER, URBAN HISTORIAN & EDUCATOR AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

- Architectural and Urban History - Cross-cultural Design - Cities and Cinema - Cultural studies of the built environment - Environmental Design in Developing Countries - Housing and Urban Development - Islamic Architecture and Urbanism - Middle Eastern Studies - Traditional Dwelling and Settlements - Urban Design & Urban Design History - Virtual Reality

______________________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Architecture 232 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-1800 Office (510) 642-4852 Fax (510) 643-5571 Center for Middle Eastern Studies 340 Stephens Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 Office (510) 642-8208 Fax (510) 643-3001 IASTE 390 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1839 Office (510) 642-6801 Fax (510) 643-5571 ______________________________________________________________________________________

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EDUCATION 1988 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley ◊ Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture 1981 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge ◊ Master of Science in Architecture 1979 CAIRO UNIVERSITY, Cairo, Egypt ◊ D.T.P., Diploma of Advanced Studies in Town Planning (A two-year graduate degree program) 1977 ◊ Bachelor of Architectural Engineering (A five-year first professional degree program) ______________________________________________________________________________________

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE & POSITIONS 1998 - PROFESSOR Present ◊ Departments of Architecture and City & Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley Teaching and research on Architectural Design, Urban

Design, housing, urbanism and Urban History of the Third World.

1995- CHAIR Present ◊ Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) University of California, Berkeley Tasks include administration of an organized research unit

(ORU) within the International and Area Studies Division, coordination of academic programs, visiting faculty, lecture series, language instruction, graduate fellowships, regular faculty activities, and budget allocation.

2010- HEAD OF GRADUATE ADVISORS Present ◊ M.A. in International and Area Studies (IAS) Graduate

Program University of California, Berkeley

Tasks include supervision of students and staff, coordination of admissions decisions, orientation programs, and grant programs.

◊ M.S. – Ph.D. in Architecture Graduate Program University of California, Berkeley

2010- INTERIM DIRECTOR 2011 ◊ International and Area Studies Teaching Program (IASTP) University of California, Berkeley

Supervision of all activities of a teaching program offering five undergraduate degrees and one graduate program.

2003- ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 2008 ◊ College of Environmental Design (CED) University of California, Berkeley

Mainstream and consolidate the several ad-hoc programs in the department with an international focus and bring them under the single umbrella of this new program.

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1988 - PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER Present ◊ International Association for the Study of Traditional

Environments (IASTE) Tasks include administering a non-profit academic association

of interdisciplinary scholars whose research focuses on traditional built environments, including grant writing, administration, budgeting, paper review, supervising the publication program, directing all conferences, selecting regent speakers, and editing the IASTE Working Paper Series.

EDITOR ◊ Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review (TDSR)

Responsibility includes management of all aspects of the journal including paper review, assignment of paper and book reviews, publication decision, design layout and budgeting.

July 1985- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ADJUNCT June 1998 PROFESSOR/VISITING LECTURER/RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

◊ University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design Taught lecture courses, seminars and studios.

January 1985 - ◊ University Extension, Interior Design Program December 1987 Taught studios in residential and commercial design. February 1982 - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR July 1984 ◊ University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia College of Environmental Design Taught courses in housing, urban design, and studios in

architectural design, environmental design, physical planning and graphic communication; research in the areas of housing and building codes.

September 1979 - FIELD RESEARCHER July 1981 ◊ Department of Architecture, Technology Adaptation Program

(TAP), M.I.T., Cambridge, under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, D. C.

Prepared studies on the application of different housing concepts (site & services, upgrading, and core housing) and the use of landsat imagery to the Egyptian context; designing and preparing the final reports.

September 1977 - RESEARCH ASSISTANT July 1979 ◊ Technology Planning Center, Cairo University Technology

Adaptation Program, Joint Research Team on Housing (CU/MIT)

Prepared studies on the application of different planning models to Egypt and conducting a field survey on the housing situation in Cairo.

September 1977 - INSTRUCTOR/DEMONSTRATOR July 1979 ◊ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo

University, Cairo, Egypt Assisted in the teaching of courses on housing, urban design,

and architectural practice.

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PUBLIC SERVICE, ADMINISTRATION & CONSULTING 1988 - Present PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ◊ Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Project

Center for Environmental Design Research University of California, Berkeley

2009- Present DIRECTOR 2003- 2006 ◊ Board of Directors, The Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago 2003- Present EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

◊ Encyclopedia of 20-th Century Architecture

◊ Routledge book series: “Planning, History and the Environment.”

◊ Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ◊ Prostor

REVIEWER & EDITORIAL ADVISOR 1996 & 2001 ◊ Guest Editor, Built Environment, United Kingdom 1997-Present ◊ Reviewer, Routledge, London; Continuum Press, London 2001- Present ◊ Book Series Editor, “Transnational Perspectives on Space and

Place” Lexington Press, Lanham. Books in Series include Muslim Europe, 2002, Urban Informality, 2003 and Making Cairo Medieval, 2004.

1990 – Present ◊ Reviewer, Alam Al-Benaa, American Anthropologist, Annals of

Tourism, Environment & Planning, Islamic Arts, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Architectural Education, The Journal of Architecture & Planning Research, The Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, The Journal of Urban Geography, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of King Saud University, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Middle East Review, Society & Space, Urban Design Journal.

JUROR, PROFESSIONAL REFEREE, & CONSULTANT

2010-2011 ◊ Opera Square International Competition, Cairo Juror for the international competition to redesign Opera Square in Cairo, Egypt. Organized by the National Organization for Urban Harmony (NOUH). 2010 ◊ 14th Annual Arab Film Festival, San Francisco

Consultant to help with the selection of jury members for film awards.

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2009 ◊ 13th Annual Arab Film Festival, San Francisco Chair of the jury for the selection of film awards in long feature film

category. 2008 ◊ 12th Annual Arab Film Festival, San Francisco

Chair of the jury for the selection of film awards in long feature film category.

2007 ◊ 11th Annual Arab Film Festival, San Francisco Juror for selection of film awards documentaries category. 2006 ◊ Jabal Khandama International Architectural Competition

Chair of the Jury, Competition on a major urban redevelopment project in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

2001 ◊ The History Channel Advisor on the Series "Modern Marvels" in regard to the two episodes "The Suez Canal" and "The Aswan High Dam"

1994-1995 ◊ King Abdul Azia University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects 1994-1995 ◊ King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects 1995-1996 ◊ Ministry of Development, Brunei Workshop on Housing and Physical Planning Programs 1994-1995 ◊ University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects 1993-1994 ◊ Center for Field Research, Boston Reviewer 1992-1993 ◊ California Policy Seminar, Berkeley Reviewer 1991 ◊ AIA, Arizona Chapter, Tucson Design for Desert Living Competition Juror for design submissions 1991-1993 ◊ Basil/Blackwell Encyclopedia of Architecture, edited by Paul Oliver Suggesting and contributing entries to the encyclopedia. 1987-1989 ◊ John Wiley, New York Encyclopedia of Architecture, edited by J. Wilkes and R. Packard Suggesting and contributing entries to the Encyclopedia. 1982-1983 ◊ Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Refereeing and reviewing several research proposals in the areas of architectural research, urban design, building codes and urban development.

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◊ Advisor and Reviewer for Promotion Cases MIT, University of California at Irvine, University of California at Davis, University of California at Merced, University of California at Santa Barbara, King Abdul Aziz University, King Saud University, University of Pennsylvania, New York University.

COMMITTEE SERVICE: National & International Level 2009-present ◊ Director, Board of the Society of Architectural Historians 2004-present ◊ Society of Architectural Historians Service as member or Chair of various award committees including: Spiro Kostof Award for best book in the history of Architecture and Urbanism; the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for best book in Architectural History; the Philip Johnson Award for best Exhibition Catalogue/Book; and the Founders Award for best article published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). 2007 ◊ Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Workshop and Conference Co-director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project, “Cities and Fundamentalism”

2004 ◊ Barcelona Forum 2004

Speaker and Participant in the Discussion Forum: Globalization, Identity, Diversity

1996-1997 ◊ Middle East Studies Association, Annual Conference Co-chair, 1997 Program Committee 1995 - 1996 ◊ Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars – Smithsonian Member, Working Group on the UN HABITAT II / City Summit Conference, Globalization and Comparative Urbanism 1995 - 1996 ◊ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Member, Working Group on “Cities for the Next Millennium” 1991 - 1997 ◊ Peace Fellowship Program, USAID / Egyptian Culture and Education Bureau Advisor 1982-1984 ◊ University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia College of Environmental Design

- Chair, Continuing Education Program (1983-1984) - Member, Committees on Exhibitions and Lectures (1982-1983), Curriculum, Computer Utilization (1982-1983), and several faculty search committees.

COMMITTEE SERVICE: University of California, Berkeley 2008 – Present ◊ Blum Center for Developing Economies Member of Education Committee 2007 ◊ New Media Center Member, Faculty Advisory Committee 1996 – Present ◊ Ad-Hoc Committees

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Served on several ad-hoc Promotion and Unit Review Committees at both departmental and University level 1995-1996 ◊ Education Abroad Program (EAP) Served on system-wide committee to evaluate the UC. Education Abroad Program at the American University, Cairo, Egypt 1992 - 1994 ◊ Center for Middle East Studies Executive Committee Member 1991 - 1994 ◊ Academic Senate Member of the Subcommittee on the American Cultures Requirement 1988 - present ◊ Department of Architecture - Coordinator, Environmental Design in Developing Countries Area of Emphasis - Undergraduate Minor Adviser, Environmental Design in Developing Countries

- Chair, Ph.D. Committee & Graduate Advisors of M.S./ PhD programs

- Ex-Officio Member, M.Arch. Committee - Occasional Member, Faculty Search Committee, Prizes & Committee, and other ad hoc committees. 2006-present ◊ Department of City & Regional Planning - M.C.P. Admission Committee. Service in various years. - Ph.D. Program Committee. Service in various years. - Ph.D. Admission Committee. Service in various years. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ◊ ACSA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture,

Member ◊ ACSP, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Member ◊ APA, American Planning Association, Member ◊ Egyptian Geographic Society, Affiliate Member ◊ EDRA, Environmental Design Research Association, Affiliate

Member ◊ IAHS, International Association of Housing Science, Affiliate

Member ◊ IASTE, International Association for the Study of Traditional

Environments, Co-Founder ◊ MESA, Middle East Studies Association, Member ◊ SAH, Society of Architectural Historians, Member ◊ SEAE, Syndicate of Egyptian Architects and Engineers,

Registered Architect, No. 3443 ◊ VAF, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Member

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PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE 2007 –Present CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING CONSULTANT

◊ Nano-City: A New Planned City in Haryana, India Organized and guided a design-team of architects, urban designers and planners on the conceptualization of a new city. The site for the city entitled "Nano City" is twenty miles eastof the city of Chandigarh. The government of the State of Haryana, India allowed an 11,000 acre site by Nano Works, Ltd. (Sabeer Bhatia) and has provided a tax incentive package to jump-start the project. The main intent is to create a livable, dense, sustainable, eco-friendly I.T. that can serve as a model for other developments in the region.

1977- Present XXA: THE OFFICE OF XROSS-XULTURAL ARCHITECTURE.

◊ Nezar AlSayyad, Principal. (A small private architectural firm based in California associated with a home office in Cairo, Egypt operating collaboratively with several partners on which XXA collaborated include:

October 2002 ◊ The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt (A project with

Gordon Gee – part of the International Competition for the Design of the Egyptian Museum.

June 2000 ◊ Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley (A project in collaboration with Gordon Gee and Angell & Rowlinson as architects of records). A 3000 square feet adaptive reuse project in Stephens Hall. (Building Completed). December 1998 ◊ Egyptian Embassy in Berlin (A project in collaboration with

Gordon Gee). Entry into an invited competition organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

July 1996 ◊ Hadaik Towers, Cairo, Egypt (A project in collaboration with Tarek AbuZekry). A mixed-use complex: commercial space, offices, and condominium apartments. Won second prize in a national competition; awarded contract for one of the Towers. (Building Completed). July 1995 ◊ Four Sails Resort, South Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt (A project in collaboration with Tarek AbuZekry). Declared winners of the

first stage of a two-stage competition organized by the Egyptian Company for Touristic Development.

1994 - 1995 ◊ Dar Al-Kuttub Library Competition, Cairo, Egypt (A

Competition entered in association with Mark Mack). Joint project was selected finalist among four submissions in first stage of a two-stage competition for the Islamic Museum Library in Spring 1994. Individual submission won second prize in the second stage of the competition in Summer 1995.

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1991-1992 ◊ House of Names: A Private Residence for a Professor, Albany,

California (Design) May 1991 ◊ The Samarkand Urban Revitalization Project and Cultural Park (A project in collaboration with Mark Mack). An international

competition sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the USSR Union of Architects.

June 1989 ◊ The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (A project in collaboration with

Mark Mack). The International Competition for the Library of Alexandria, sponsored by UNESCO and UIA, Paris, France.

July 1987 ◊ Private Residence, Albany, California (Remodeling and

Extension). (Building Completed). July 1984 ◊ A villa in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia (Design and working

drawings). (Building Completed). January 1979 ◊ A five-story residential block, Cairo (Design & project

management). (Building Completed). August 1978 ◊ A villa in El-Mohandeseen, Cairo (Design & project

management). (Building Completed). December 1977 ◊ A night club, "L'auberge du Pyramids," Cairo (Interior design)

(Building Completed). August 1977 ◊ A ten-story residential block, Cairo (Working drawings).

(Building Completed). September 1984 - ARCHITECT January 1985 ◊ The Cromwell Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Different architectural designs and physical planning

assignments. Responsibilities included job captain, supervision of computer generated design, and execution of working drawing documents.

July 1981 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER February 1982 ◊ Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, Troy, Michigan, USA Working on special assignments: - Eastern Province International Airport, Saudi Arabia Designing and coordinating the different elements of Islamic

architecture in the project - Lagos Lagoon Development, Nigeria Schematic Master Plan proposal. July 1977 - DESIGNER AND DELINEATOR July 1978 ◊ Egyptian Collaboratives, Architects and Engineers Cairo,

Egypt Projects included: - Swimming pool in Port Said Olympic City, Port Said Co-designer and architectural delineator - Temporary Residence for GAPCO Petroleum Engineers,

Safaga: schematics and working drawings.

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June 1976 - ASSISTANT TO CHIEF ARCHITECT September 1976 ◊ International Development & Construction Consultants, Gafar

& Associates, Dubai, Sharjah, UAE. Projects included: - Palace of Sheikh Sultan, Ruler of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.

Assistance in the preparation of working drawings - An elementary school, Qasimya, Sharjah, UAE. Assistance in the design phase. _____________________________________________________________________________________ AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS July 2009 ◊ RESIDENT FELLOW Foundation Les Treilles, France 2008 ◊ DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD Highest honor bestowed by the Academic Senate on a faculty for teaching excellence. University of California, Berkeley 2003 ◊ BOOK COVER DESIGN AWARD for Hybrid Urbanism from Communication Arts Magazine 1995 ◊ BEIT AL-QURAN MEDAL for contributions to the study of Arab history, Bahrain 1994-1995 ◊ ARAB URBAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Award for Best Research in the Study of Traditional Arab

Environments, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1994-1995 ◊ SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC) New York: A mid-career fellowship to research public housing

programs and nation-building in the post-colonial Middle East ($30,000)

1994-1995 ◊ COUNCIL FOR AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH

CENTERS (CAORC) Washington, DC: A travel fellowship to Egypt, Tunisia, and

Bahrain to research the architecture of public housing and its connection to the nation-building agenda. ($7,000)

1993-1994 ◊ MCNAIR FACULTY MENTOR AWARD by the University of California, Berkeley, in recognition of

support and guidance to minority undergraduate students. 1991 ◊ AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS EDUCATION

HONORS Washington, DC: for the program Cross Cultural Modes of

Architectural Design. 1990 ◊ PIONEER AMERICA SOCIETY

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Williamsburg, Virginia: Fred Kniffen Award for Best Book in Material Culture in 1990, for the book Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition (Jointly with Jean-Paul Bourdier).

1986-1987 ◊ BERKELEY REGENTS FELLOW University of California 1982-1983 ◊ INTERGRAPH CERTIFICATES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS

FELLOWSHIPS (short courses) University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran,

Saudi Arabia. 1979-1980 ◊ USAID TECHNOLOGY ADAPTATION PROGRAM FELLOW Washington DC and Cambridge ______________________________________________________________________________________ GRANTS, ENDOWMENTS & FUND-RAISING 2010-2014 ◊ U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities for the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($2 million) 2007-2009 ◊ Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington

D.C., grant for a conference on Cities and Fundamentalisms. (Jointly with Blair Ruble & Mejgan Massoumi ($30,000).

2006-2010 ◊ U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities for the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($1.8 million) 2002-2005 ◊ U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities for the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($1.5 million) 2002-2003 ◊ Helen Diller Family Endowment for a program in Jewish Studies

and Israeli Visiting Scholars at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($3.5 million)

2000-2001 ◊ Ford Foundation. IIS Crossing Borders Grant for research and a conference on The Urban Informality Project. (Jointly with

Ananya Roy) ($20,000) 1999-2002 ◊ US Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities in the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($1.5 million) 1999-2000 ◊ Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Charity Foundation Endowment for a

Program in Arab Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($5 million)

1998-1999 ◊ Xenel Corporation/Abdul-Jawad Family Endowment for an

Islamic Studies Program and a Technology Transfer program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($2 million)

1998- 1999 ◊ Ford Foundation/IIS Crossing Borders Grant for the Muslim

Europe Project (Jointly with Manuel Castells). ($20,000)

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1996-1999 ◊ US Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($1.5 million)

1996-1997 ◊ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant

Chicago, IL, for a special issue of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. ($10,000)

1995-1996 ◊ Mellon Foundation Endowment for activities in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($500,000)

1995-1996 ◊ National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC:

Design Arts Program, Design Documentation Grant to produce computer simulations on the history of urban form of traditional Islamic cities (Jointly with Yehuda Kalay). ($40,000)

1993-1994 ◊ National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC:

Design Arts Program Organizational Grant to produce and write a video documentary, At Home with Mother Earth: Akkiwan, for public television. ($30,000)

1993-1994 ◊ Graham Foundation for the Advancement of Study in the Fine

Arts, Chicago: A Grant to produce and write a video documentary, At Home with Mother Earth: Akkiwan, for public television. ($10,000)

1993-1994 ◊ Hewlett Grant: Administered by the Institute of International

Studies, Berkeley: A grant to research housing policy and nation-building in the Arab World. ($5,000)

1991-1992 ◊ National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC:

Design Arts Program Institutional Grant to initiate Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, the journal of IASTE (Jointly with Jean-Paul Bourdier). ($30,000)

1991-1992 ◊ Getty Foundation, Santa Monica, California, Publication

Program: a grant to edit and publish Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. ($30,000)

1990-1991 ◊ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Chicago:

a grant to produce illustrations for the book Cities and Caliphs. ($10,000)

1988-1989 ◊ National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC:

Design Arts Program Individual Grant to plan the publication of a new journal (Jointly with Jean-Paul Bourdier). ($20,000)

1988-1989 ◊ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts, Chicago:

Grant to establish the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (Jointly with Jean-Paul Bourdier). ($10,000)

1987-1988 ◊ National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC:

Design Arts Individual Program Grant to conduct a conference (Jointly with Jean-Paul Bourdier). ($10,000)

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1987-1988 ◊ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts, Chicago: Research Grant to publish the book Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition. ($10,000)

1981-1982 ◊ Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT/Harvard,

Cambridge, Publication Grant. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA GRANTS 1998-1999 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Grant for Housing Research 1996-1997 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Grant for Housing Research 1995-1996 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Computing Grant 1995-1996 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Grant to develop case-studies of

housing policies in developing countries. 1994-1995 ◊ Humanities Research Grant to pursue research and travel in the

Middle East and North Africa to research the connection between public housing and nation-building.

1994-1995 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Supplementary Sabbatical Grant 1993-1994 ◊ Committee on Research (COR) Grant to develop case studies on

the history of housing in the Middle East. 1993-1994 ◊ Center for Middle East Studies: An exploratory Mellon Fund

grant for research on Public Housing Policy and Public Housing Form.

1993-1994 ◊ Office of Educational Development, Innovative Grant to develop

a new course on the Urbanism of the Soviet Empire, 1945 - 1990. 1993-1994 ◊ Center for Middle Eastern Studies Mellon Fund, a grant to

develop visual materials on Middle Eastern architects. 1992-1993 ◊ Committee on Research, Grant to develop animations,

simulation and modeling of Traditional Islamic Cities. 1992 ◊ Junior Faculty Research Grant to develop case studies of

contemporary responses to colonial urbanism. 1991-1992 ◊ Council of Educational Development, Instructional

Improvement Grant to coordinate the introduction of a new course in Architecture dealing with International Housing with an existing course in Planning.

1990-1991 ◊ Center for Middle East Studies Mellon fund, a grant to develop

visual material for research and teaching of Middle Eastern subjects.

1990-1991 ◊ Council of Educational Development, Instructional

Improvement Grant to produce computer models for three

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Islamic cities to be used in studio instructions (Jointly with Mark Mack).

1989-1990 ◊ Council of Educational Development, A Priorities in Education

Grant to organize a new course on colonialism and the evolution of urban form in the developing world (Jointly with Ken Simmons).

1989-1990 ◊ Office of the Provost, Innovative Program Grant to develop a

continuing education component for the Traditional Settlements Project.

1988-1989 ◊ Council of Educational Development, Instructional

Improvement Grant applied to developing visual material for the Environmental Design in Developing Countries concentration.

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PUBLIC LECTURES & MEETING PRESENTATIONS March 2011 ◊ Invited Speaker, “Fundamentalism, Medievalism, and Urbanism,” Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Castle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. December 2010 ◊ Opening remarks at “Utopia of Tradition,” the 12th Conference

of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, Lebanon.

October 2010 ◊ Invited Speaker, “Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition.” Lecture Series at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ◊ Session Chair, “Cinematic Urbanism in the Middle East” at the Second Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA). July 2010 ◊ Keynote Speaker, “Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition” 3rd international conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place, hosted by Arte-Polis 3 and the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. June 2010 ◊ Invited speaker, “The Fundamentalist City?” at the Megacities Workshop,, sponsored by the New Encyclopedia Project, University of California, Irvine. March 2010 ◊ Invited Speaker and Session Chair, Ajman International Conference: Sustainable Development Reshaping Cities, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates. November 2009 ◊ Invited assessor at Peer Review Colloquium at Delft University, Netherlands.

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September 2009 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “Identity, Culture, and Urbanism” at the conference Urban Identities, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

July 2009 ◊ Invited speaker, “Problematizing Urban Modernity” in the

Concept of Urban Change Symposium, Foundation Les Treilles, France.

May 2009 ◊ Invited speaker, presentation on “New Research in the Field of

Urban Studies” at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

February 2009 ◊ Invited speaker, “Neither Homogeneity nor Heterogeneity: Modernity Struggles” at the Knowledge of Construction Workshop, for the Aga Khan Development Network Seminars in Vancouver, Canada. December 2008 ◊ Opening remarks at “Interrogating Tradition,” the 11th Conference

of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Oxford, England.

October 2008 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “Colonial Modernities Conference and Exhibit” organized by the House of World Cultures Museum in Berlin, Germany. March 2008 ◊ Invited speaker, "Heritage and Tradition" Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota. January 2008 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, "The Modernity of Ethnicity and Race

in the Cinematic City of the 1980s” at the conference Globalization, Violence, and Visual Cultures, University of London Institute, Paris, France.

December 2007 ◊ Invited speaker, "The End of Tradition and the Middle East”

Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture & Design, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.

November 2007 ◊ Invited Speaker, "Cinematic Cities: Historicizing the Modern

from Reel to Real,” Fall 2007 Lecture Series of the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

October 2007 ◊ Invited speaker, "Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition”

Hearst Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.

May 2007 ◊ Invited plenary session moderator of “Spin and Journalism: An

Uneasy Coexistence,” at the Annual Conference of the International Press Institute, Istanbul Turkey.

April 2007 ◊ Invited plenary session organizer of “Empire and the Clash of

Civilizations” at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Doha, Qatar

April 2007 ◊ Invited chair of the Open Session Track at the 60th Annual

Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, PA

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March 2007 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, "Post-Tradition, Hyper-Traditions and

the End of Tradition” at the Annual Conference of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage, Bruges, Belgium.

December 2006 ◊ Opening remarks at “Hyper-Traditions,” the 10th Conference of the

International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Bangkok, Thailand.

December 2006 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “South of Doxiades: Other Ideas from

Egypt,” at the Space and Progress Conference, Athens, Greece. November 2006 ◊ Invited speaker, “Urban Inclusion,” at the Inclusive Cities

Conference at the Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain.

June 2006 ◊ Invited participant at the Inclusive Cities Working Group, Woodrow

Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. May 2006 ◊ Invited speaker, “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition”

at the California House, University of California Trust, London, U.K.

April 2006 ◊ Session chair and organizer of “Architects’ Architectural

Histories” at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah Georgia.

March 2006 ◊ Invited speaker, “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition”

at the New Heritage Forum, University of Hong Kong. March 2006 ◊ Invited guest speaker at the Berkeley Club of Hong Kong and co-

sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects, Hong Kong

February 2006 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in the

Changing World” at the First International Symposium on Environment Behavior: People in Place in People, University of Sydney, Australia.

Jan 2006 ◊ Invited speaker and discussant at the “Shangri-La Unfolding:

Place, Space, Decorative Art,” held at the Doris Duke Foundation in Honolulu, Hawaii.

September 2005 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “Medieval Modernity/ Hybrid

Urbanism” at the Santa Fe Conference of the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

July 2005 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “Heritage, Tradition and Their Limits,”

International Fellows Program, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.

April 2005 ◊ Opening remarks at the Democracy and Global Islam Conference,

University of California, Berkeley.

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April 2005 ◊ Session chair and organizer of “‘Double Readings’: Encounters between Islam and the West,” at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, B.C.

March 2005 ◊ Invited speaker, “Virtual Cairo Reconsidered,” Lecture Series at

the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

March 2005 ◊ Invited speaker, “Visualizing Cairo,” Lecture Series at Kevorkian

Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, NY. February 2005 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, "Consuming Heritage or the End of

Tradition," at the 4th Annual Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, Savannah, GA

February 2005 ◊ Invited speaker, "The End of Tradition and Medieval Modernity:

At the Dawn of a Post Global Era" at the American University of Sharjah, UAE

December 2004 ◊ Opening remarks at “Post-Traditional Environments in a Post-

Global World” The Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Dubai, UAE.

November 2004 ◊ Invited speaker at the Globalization, Urbanization, and Development

Symposium organized by the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

October 2004 ◊ Invited talk, "Virtual Cairo" at the American Research Center in

Egypt (ARCE) Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley, CA July 2004 ◊ Invited keynote address, "Identity and Cultural Domination" at

Barcelona Cultural Forum, Dialogue on Globalization and Diversity, Barcelona, Spain

July 2004 ◊ Speaker, "Medieval Modernity" (with Ananya Roy) at the Annual

Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS,) Barcelona, Spain

February 2004 ◊ Keynote address, “Outreach and Public Programs in a Polarized

Context” at the Fourth Annual Conference of National Resource Center Directors, United States Department of Education, Santa Fe, NM

April 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

April 2003 ◊ “Consuming Tradition in an Area of Preservation” Lecture Series

at American University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates March 2003 ◊ Keynote address, “Manufacturing Heritage: Middle Eastern

Perspectives” at Local Sites of Global Practice: The Middle East, Yale University

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December 2002 ◊ Opening remarks at “Unbounding Tradition” The Eighth

Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Hong Kong

April 2001 ◊ “Hybrid Urbanism: Middle Eastern Perspectives” at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada October 2000 ◊ Opening Remarks at “The End of Tradition,” the Seventh

Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Trani, Italy

May 2000 ◊ Invited talk, “Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus

Interpretation,” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

December 1999 ◊ Invited keynote speaker, “On the Manufacture of Heritage in the

age of Tourism” at the Heritage and Tourism Conference organized by the Government of Hong Kong.

December 1998 ◊ Opening Remarks at “Manufacturing Heritage/ Consuming

Tradition” the Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Cairo, Egypt

March 1998 ◊ Invited talk, “Virtual Cairo: Telling History to a General Public” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin

February 1998 ◊ Invited talk, “Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus

Interpretation,” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

January 1998 ◊ Invited talk, “Virtual Cairo: The Making of a Multimedia

Project,” at the Berkeley Multimedia Resource Center Annual Conference, University of California at Berkeley

November 1997 ◊ Public presentation, “Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History,”

at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley

April 1997 ◊ Closing remarks at The Courtyard House Across Cultures

Conference held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

December 1996 ◊ Opening remarks at “Identity, Tradition and Built Form,” the Fifth

Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley, California, USA July 1996 ◊ Invited talk, “Housing and Globalization,” at Housing and Culture Conference held at Istanbul Technical University,

Istanbul, Turkey. July 1996 ◊ Invited talk, “Housing, Identity and Culture,” at HABITAT II:

The City Summit, organized by the United Nations, Istanbul, Turkey.

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May 1996 ◊ Invited talk, “Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism,” at The America Institute for Maghribi Studies, Tangier, Morocco.

April 1996 ◊ Invited paper, “The Temporal Reality of Traditional Habitats,” at

the United Nations Development Programme Conference: The Next Millennium: Cities for People in a Globalizing World, Marmaris, Turkey.

August 1995 ◊ Invited lecture and Workshop, “Some Thoughts on Housing

Alternatives,” at the Ministry of Development, Bandan Sir Begawan, Brunei.

June 1995 ◊ Invited lecture, “Arab Architecture and the Issue of Identity,” at

the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

May 1995 ◊ Invited lecture “Third World Architecture and the Question of

Housing,” at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Capetown and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

April 1995 ◊ Invited lecture, “Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing

World,” at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, USA.

February 1995 ◊ “The Early Cities of Islam,” Public Lecture Series of Beit Al-Quran

in Manama, Bahrain. January 1995 ◊ Invited keynote address, “Traditional Architecture: The Myth

and Reality,” at the Bahrain Society of Engineers Conference held in Manama, Bahrain.

December 1994 ◊ Keynote address, “Traditional Settlements: From Colonialism to Globalization,” at Value in Tradition, the Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Tunis, Tunisia.

November 1994 ◊ Invited lecture, “Housing and the Nation-State: The Case of

Tunisia,” at the American Research Center in Tunis, Tunisia. November 1994 ◊ Invited lecture, “Local Planning Practices in the United States,”

at Technological Institute of Art, Architecture, and Urbanism of Tunisia (ITAAUT), Tunis, Tunisia. September 1994 ◊ Invited lecture, “The Traditional Architecture and Urbanism of

the Islamic World,” 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.

April 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.

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April 1993 ◊ Invited lecture, "Medieval Urbanism in Europe and the Middle

East," at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada. December 1992 ◊ Invited lecture, "Buildings and Projects," at the College of

Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

October 1992 ◊ Opening remarks at "Development vs. Tradition," the Third

Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Paris, France.

July 1992 ◊ Invited lecture, "Balance and Imbalance," at the International

Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Urbino, Italy.

April 1992 ◊ Invited lecture, "The Islamic City: On the Transfer of Ideas," at

the San Francisco Planning Department, Lecture Series, San Francisco, California.

April 1992 ◊ Keynote lecture, "The Genesis of Cairo and Its Development," at

the Egyptian American Organization Annual Event, Los Angeles, California.

March 1992 ◊ Invited lecture, "An Architect Between Two Worlds," at the

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 1992 ◊ "Ph.D. Programs in Architecture and the Academic-Professional

Linkage," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.

November 1991 ◊ Keynote lecture, "Architectural Education and the Global

Transformations," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Administrators Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

July 1991 ◊ Keynote lecture, "Dwelling Form and Desert Culture," at the

Design for Desert Living Conference, organized by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

May 1991 ◊ Keynote Lecture, " Housing Policy and Housing Form," at the

Housing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Conference organized by the School of Architecture of the University of California, San Diego, California, USA.

April 1991 ◊ "Baghdad and Al-Qahirah: On the Genesis of Urban Form," at

the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio.

October 1990 ◊ Concluding remarks, "A Course of Action," 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.

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November 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.

October 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.

April 1989 ◊ "Basra and Kouffa: Arab and Western Attitudes on Muslim

Urban Form," at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

November 1988 ◊ "The Arab Muslim Garrison Town," at the Annual Conference of

the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, USA. June 1988 ◊ Invited speaker, "Urban Open Space Between East and West," at

the Public Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

April 1988 ◊ Opening remarks, "The Study of Traditional Environments," at

the International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

November 1987 ◊ "Towards a Cross-Cultural Interpretation of City Form,” at the

Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Los Angeles, California.

November 1987 ◊ "On the Physical Form of the Pre-Industrial Muslim City," at the

Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.

October 1987 ◊ "The Concept of Urban Renewal: Comparative Notes," at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Housing Science, Berlin, Germany.

June 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.

July 1986 ◊ Invited speaker, "Ethics and Housing Policy in the Third World,"

at EDGE: Ethics of Development in the Global Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

April 1986 ◊ "Notes on the Islamic City," at the Environmental Design Research

Association, EDRA 17 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. July 1984 ◊ "Urban Space in the Islamic City of Cairo," at the Seminar on

Housing in the Islamic City, Islamic Capitals Organization Conference, Ankara, Turkey.

September 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.

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December 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.

September 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.

April 1981 ◊ Invited paper, "Lessons from the Past: Facade Architecture of

Medieval Cairo," at the American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

January 1981 ◊ Invited paper, "Some Visual Aspects of Streets in Medieval

Cairo," at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

March 1979 ◊ "Agricultural Development versus Urban Development," at

International Youth Congress on Food and Development, Cairo, Egypt.

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MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS

◊ Several Interviews for Various News Programs on Local Television and Radio Stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including KTVU-Channel 2, KPIX-Channel 5, and KGO-Channel 7, 2004-2011.

◊ “Adabiyat” – Main Guest with host Gamal El-Ghitani on a major television program of Nile Television, Cairo, Egypt, July 2008. ◊ "Searching for the Lost Urban Wealth": A Symposium with

Nezar AlSayyad and Gamal Al-Ghitani in Akhbar Al-Adab, Cairo, July 2007.

◊ Invited plenary session moderator of “Spin and Journalism: An Uneasy Coexistence,” at the Annual Conference of the International Press Institute, Istanbul Turkey, May 2007.

◊ Seminar held in conjunction with and for Al-Akhbar an Egyptian daily on Cities in the Middle East, June 2006

◊ “Hamas, la bomba radical que remece a Israel” by Pablo Soto Gonzalez. El Mercurio, Chile, June 14, 2003.

◊ “Dritter Weltcrieg nach dem Muster eines Zusammenpralls der

Kulturen” Interview mit dem Nahost-Experten Prof. Nezar AlSayyad in National & Zeitung, Germany, April 30, 2003.

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◊ “Middle Eastern Studies: The New Push” in Aramco World, January/ February, 2003, pp. 2-13.

◊ “UC Berkeley Faculty Analyze Iraq War: Nezar AlSayyad on the War” by Bonnie Azab Powell, Berkeleyan-Online, April 2, 2002. ◊ “Middle East 101: Q&A with Nezar AlSayyad, Chair of Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies” by Bonnie Azab Powell, Berkeleyan- Online, October 15, 2002. ◊ “After September 11: The Faculty Reflects” California Monthly,

November , 2001, Vol. 112, No.2. ◊ “Aswan High Dam" & "The Suez Canal” Guest Appearance Modern Marvels Program, HISTORY CHANNEL Productions, 2001.

◊ “A Blue Print for Egypt: It’s Past is Recreated” by Mary Rajkumar Oakland Tribune, April 29, 1996, pp. 11&12.

◊ “Virtual Cairo: You can Tour the City in the 10th and 15th

Century with Professor AlSayyad’s Multimedia Project” by Kathleen Scalise, Berkeleyan, April 17-23, 1996, p.3.

◊ “Planning and Planners in the Arab World.” A one hour

television interview in the program “Nadwa Thagafia - A Cultural Engagement,” Bahrain Public Television, Bahrain, March 1995.

◊ “Adobe Comes into Its Own: The Mud Architecture of Professor

AlSayyad” by Kathleen Scalise, Berkeleyan, April 17-23, 1996, p 2.

◊ Akhtar Badshah, "First World: Third World" in Mimar, No. 38, 1991, pp. 15-16.

◊ “Scholars to Discuss Environment: Large Campus Symposium to

Focus on Cultural Dwellings” in The Daily Californian, April 4, 1988

_____________________________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATIONS BY & ON NEZAR ALSAYYAD

FULL-LENGTH BOOKS

◊ Cairo: Histories of a City. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2011.

◊ The Fundamentalist City? Co-editor with Mejgan Massoumi, Routledge: London, 2010.

◊ Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern From Reel to Real, Routledge: London & New York, 2006.

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◊ Making Cairo Medieval, Co-editor with Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabbat, Lexington Books: Lanham & London, 2005. ◊ Müslüman Avrupa ya da Avro-Islam, co-editor with Manuel

Castells, Istanbul: Everest, 2004 (In Turkish). ◊ The End of Tradition? Editor, Routledge: London & New York, 2004.

◊ Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. Co-editor with Ananya Roy, Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2004.

◊ Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam. Co-editor with Manuel Castells. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2002. ◊ Europa Musulmana O Euro-Islam Barcelona: Alianza Editorial/Ensayo, 2003 (In Spanish). ◊ Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment. Greenwood/Praeger: New York and Westport, 2001. ◊ Consuming Tradition/Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and

Urban Forms in an Age of Tourism. Routledge: London, New York, 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-editor 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.

BOOKS (IN PROGRESS)

◊ Traditions: The Real, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment, Routledge: London, (expected 2011).

FILMS & VIDEOS FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION ◊ Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History, Written, produced and

directed by Nezar AlSayyad, IASTE Productions, 1998.

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◊ At Home with Mother Earth, Written and Produced by Nezar

AlSayyad, Morteza Rezvani, and David Weisman; Directed by Morteza Rezvani and David Weisman. Narrated by Eartha Kitt. IASTE / Feat of Clay productions, 1994.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS BY OTHERS

◊ “The Sustainability of the Indigenous Vernacular: Interrogating a Myth,” co-authored with Gabriel Arboleda in The Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture, Sang Lee, ed., Rotterdam Publishers: Rotterdam (forthcoming).

◊ “Culture, Identity and Urbanism: A Historical Perspective from

Colonialism and Globalisation,” in Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past Rebellions for the Future, Tom Avermaete. Serhat Karakayali, Marion von Osten, eds., Black Dog Publishing: London, 2010.

◊ “Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical

Limitations and Democratizing Potential,” in Architecture-Design Methods-Inca Structures: Festschrift for Jean-Pierre Protzen, Johanna Delingher, Hans Delingher, eds., Kassel University Press: Kassel, 2009.

◊ “Forward,” in Globalization, Violence, and the Visual Culture of Cities, Christoph Linder, ed., Routledge: London, 2009.

◊ “Introduction,” in Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design, Kingston Heath, Elsevier Press: London, 2009.

◊ “From Modernity to Globalization: The Middle East in Context,” in Modernism and the Middle East: Politics of the Built Environment, Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi, eds., University of Washington Press: Seattle, 2008.

◊ “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition: The New Challenges of Globalization,” in New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, eds., Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, and Janice Afflect, Routledge: London, 2008, pp. 155-169.

◊ “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Thoughts on

Architecture in the Contemporary Moment of Globalization,” in The Domestic and the Foreign: Globalization in Architecture, Sang Lee and Ruth Baumeister, eds., 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, pp.179-205.

◊ "Foreword,” in Vernacular Architecture in the Twenty-First

Century: Theory, Education and Practice, Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga, eds., Taylor and Francis: London, 2006, pp. xvii-xviii

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◊ “Whose Cairo?.” In Cairo Cosmopolitan:: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space, Paul Amar and Diane Singerman, eds., American University in Cairo (AUC) Press: Cairo, 2006, pp. 539-543.

◊ “’Ali Mubarak’s Cairo: Between the Testimony of ‘Alamuddin

and the Imaginary of the Khitat,” in Making Cairo Medieval, Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabat, eds., Lexington Press, 2005, pp. 49-66.

◊ “Manufacturing Urban Heritage, Consuming Cultural Tradition:

Implications for a Global History in the Age of Tourism,” in New Global History and the City, Elliot Morss, ed., New Global History Press: Mass, 2004, pp. 99-115.

◊ “Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing World.” in

Preparing for the Urban Future, Michael Cohen et al., eds., Woodrow Wilson Center in association with Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1996, pp. 108-122.

◊ "Bayn al-Qasriyn or the Street Between the Two Palaces." In

Streets : Critical Perspectives on Space. Z. Celik, D. Favro, and R. Ingersol, eds., University of California Press: Berkeley, 1994, pp. 71-82.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENCYCLOPEDIA ◊ “The Place of the Mosque in the Urban Context” with Ipek Tureli in the Cambridge World History of Religions, Hasanuddin Khan ed., (Forthcoming, 2011). ◊ "Traditional Environments" with Elena Tomlinson. In Encylopedia of Life Support Systems, Eolss Publishers Co Ltd: Isle of Man, UK, (Forthcoming, 2011).

◊ “Colonial City” with Mrinalini Rajagopalan. In Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA (2010).

◊ “Urban Geography: Islamic Urbanism” with Ipek Tureli. In the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds., Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, Elsevier: Oxford, 2009. ◊ “Simulacra” with Ipek Tureli. In Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. Rob Kitchin, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, 2009. ◊ "Dwelling and Settlements," In Selin Helaine ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer: New York, 2008.

◊ "Urban Planning." In Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, John

Esposito, ed., Oxford University Press: New York, 2008.

◊ "Cairo" in The Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2007 Edition [original edition 2004].

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◊ “Egypt, Rural” and “Cairo” in Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Paul Oliver, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 1603-1605.

◊ "Urban Planning." In Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World,

John Esposito, ed., Oxford University Press: New York, 1995, pp. 288-290.

◊ "Mosques: The Religious Architecture of Islam" with Guita

Boostani. In Encyclopedia of Architecture, Vol. 8, Joseph Wilkes, ed., John Wiley & Sons: New York, London & Sydney, 1989, pp. 460-476.

PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS & PERIODICALS

◊ “Medieval Modernity: On Citizenship and Urbanism in a Global Era,” (with Ananya Roy) Space and Polity, 10:1, April 2006.

◊ “Citizenship in Contemporary Urbanism: A Medieval Modernity” (with Ananya Roy) Applied Anthropologist, 25:2, Fall 2005.

◊ “The Cinematic City: Between Modernist Utopia and Post- Modernist Dystopia” in Built Environment, 2001, Vol. 26, No. 4, Nezar AlSayyad, Guest Editor, Special Issue “Cinema and the City”, pp.268-261.

◊ “Virtual Cairo: A Historian’s View of Computer Simulation” Leonardo, 1999, Vol. 32, No.1, pp. 93-100.

◊ “Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism” Islamic Culture, 1998, Vol. LXXII, No. 4, pp.1-22. ◊ “Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical Limitations and Democratizing Potential” Prostor, 1998, Vol. 6, No. ½, pp.1-11.

◊ “Architecture and the Lurking Potential” in ISLA: Philosophy and Social Science Report of Japan, Special Issue: Violence and Philosophical Design, Tokyo: 1998, pp. 827-840.

◊ “The Study of Islamic Urbanism: An Historiographic Essay,”

and “Arab Caliphs and Western Observers: Building Stories in Early Islam.” In Built Environment, 1996, Vol. 22, No. 2. Nezar AlSayyad, Guest Editor, Special Issue “Islamic Architecture and Urbanism: Middle Eastern Perspectives,” pp. 89-103.

◊ “From Vernacularism to Globalism: The Temporal Reality of

Traditional Settlements,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 1995, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13-24.

◊ "Culture and Squatting," In Open House International, 1993, Vol.

18, No. 2, pp. 37-47.

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◊ "Squatting and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Informal

Developments in Latin America and the Middle East." In Habitat International 1993, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 33-44.

◊ "Informal Housing in a Comparative Perspective: Squatting and

Culture" In Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 1993, Vol. 5, pp. 3-18.

◊ "Levels of Congruence: On Urban Space and the Institutional

Structure of Different Societies" (with Kate Bristol). In Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, 1992, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 193-206.

◊ "Modeling Traditional Islamic Cities." In Mimar, No. 43, Summer

1992, pp. 26-33. ◊ "Cross-Cultural Modes of Architectural Design." In American

Institute of Architects Education Honors. 1991, pp. 65-72. ◊ "History as a Design Mode: The New Bibliotheca Alexandrina"

(with Mark Mack). Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 44, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 47-55.

◊ "The Concept of Urban Renewal Comparative Notes" (with Mirle

Rabinowitz). In International Journal of Housing Science and Its Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1988, pp. 83-100.

◊ "Space in an Islamic City: A Case Study." In Journal of Architecture

and Planning Research, Vol. 4 No. 12, June 1987. ◊ "Core Housing in Egypt: Notes on the Application of a New

Approach. " In International Journal of Housing Science and Its Application, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1984, pp. 141-155.

◊ "Some Patterns in Islamic Urban Design: The Role of Space, Past

and Present." In The Muslim Scientist, Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 1982, pp. 341-363.

◊ "The Visual Structure of an Islamic Path: An Analysis of Al-

Mu'izz Street." In Working Paper Series No. 1, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT, September 1980.

◊ Government Policies." In Journal of the Egyptian Geographic

Society, Vol. 51, May 1980, pp. 75-117.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROCEEDINGS ◊ “Neither Homogeneity nor Heterogeneity: Modernism’s Struggles in the Muslim World,” in Homogeneity & Heterogeneity in the Built Environment, Mujtaba Sadria ed., Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Paris (In Press).

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◊ “Academic-Professional Linkage: A Reassessment” in Doctoral Education in Architecture Compendium 2: A Collection of Papers on the Status and Direction of Doctoral Programs in Architecture and Environmental Design. Douglad Noble ed., (PhDiA: Vol. 4, pp. 63-69), 2009.

◊ “Identity, Culture, and Urbanism: Remarks from Colonialism to

Globalization,” in The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment, Architectural Design and Global Difference Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, 2009, pp. 18-27.

◊ “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition: The New

Challenges of Globalization,” in New Heritage: Beyond Verisimilitude, Thomas Kvan and Yehuda Kalay, eds., The University of Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 212-227.

◊ “A Database Approach to Modeling Medieval Cities,” with

Yehuda Kalay and Ame Elliot, in Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy, P. McIntosh and F. Ozel, eds., ACADIA Conference Proceedings, 1996, pp. 110-120.

◊ “An al-Turath Wa al-Haweya,” in Imara Taqlidia, M. Haramy and

J. Alawi, eds., Bahrain Mohandseen, 1995 (in Arabic). [“On Heritage and Identity,” in Traditional Architecture: Theory and Practice, Bahrain Society of Engineers: Bahrain, 1995], pp. 257-268.

◊ "Balance and Imbalance: The Islamic Middle Eastern City

between Traditional and Modernity." In Reading and Design of the Physical Environment. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, Urbino, Italy, 1993, pp. 26-29.

◊ "Teaching Climate-Energy Consciousness: A Collaborative

Approach in the Architecture Design Studio" (with Gail Brager). In National Solar Energy Conference Proceedings, 1992.

◊ "Ph.D. Programs in Architecture and the Professional-Academic

Linkage," (with Gary Brown). In Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference Proceedings, Spring 1992.

◊ "Interpreting the Form of Urban Space: Open Space and Urban

Functions in a Cross-Cultural Context" (with Kate Bristol and S.F. Lin). In Public Environments: Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association, Joan Harvey and Don Henning, eds. EDRA Publications, 1987, pp. 141-152.

◊ "Notes on the Islamic City: Aspects of Physical and Non-Physical

Structure." In The Cost of Not Knowing: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Richard Barnes, Jean Wineman and Craig Zimring, eds. Omni Press: Madison, Wisconsin, 1986, pp. 15-22.

◊ "The Design and Planning of Housing: A Report on Conferences

in Developing Countries." In Congreso Internacional de la Vivienda: Nuevos Methods de Construccion y Financiamiento, Oktay Ural,

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Raul Galindo, and Carlos Aguirre, eds. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria: Vina del Mar, Chile, 1985, Vol. 2, pp. 450-460.

◊ "Urban Space in the Muslim City" in Housing in the Islamic City.

Adbulbaki Ibrahim, ed. Islamic Capitals Organization: Riyadh, 1985 (in Arabic).

◊ "Small Towns versus New Towns: An Assessment of National

Development Policies in Egypt." In Equity with Growth: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries, Detlef Kammeier and Peter Swan, eds. Asian Institute of Technology Press: Bangkok, Thailand, 1983, pp. 499 -510.

REVIEWS OF NEZAR ALSAYYAD’S BOOKS & RESEARCH WORK ◊ Massood, Paula J.,“Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real”; and Cities and Cinema, Journal of the American Planning Association, 76: 1, 2010, pp. 132 — 133.

◊ Les Roberts, “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,” in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Volume 36, Issue 3, 2009, pp. 568-569. ◊ Jeffrey Balmer, “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,” in Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 61, Number 4, May 2008, pp. 136-137(2).

◊ Chris Bowman, “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,” in Visual Communication, Nov 2008; vol. 7: pp. 509 - 510.

◊ Ralph Stern, “Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,” in Architectural Association (AA) Files, No. 56, 2007, pp.80-83.

◊ David Beer, “Keeping it Reel?” A Review of Cinematic Urbanism, in The City, Vol. 11, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 126-128.

◊ James Donald, “Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern

From Reel to Real,” in International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 268-270.

◊ Anthony Sutcliffe, “Cinematic Urbanism,” in Built Environment,

Vol. 33, No. 2, 2007, p. 250. ◊ Yasser Elsheshtawy, “What the Nineteenth Century Did for

Cairo: A Review of Making Cairo Medieval,” in Built Environment, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2006, pp. 450-452.

◊ Judith Kenny, “Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives

from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia,” in Urban Geography, 27:4, June 2006, pp. 391-392.

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◊ James Heitzman, “Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia,” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25:3, 2005, pp. 694-695.

◊ Adam J. Berry, et. al, “Making Cairo Medieval,” in Middle East

Journal, 2006, p. 512.

◊ Seif El Rashidi, “Making Cairo Medieval,” H-Urban, July 2005. ◊ Nancy Gallagher, “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing

Heritage” in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 38:1, June 2004, pp. 109-110.

◊ Kay Adamson, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,” in Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 42, March 2004, pp. 208-209. ◊ Mike Crang “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage” in Planning Perspectives, Vol. 18, No.1, January 2003, pp. 105-106. ◊ Sophie Gilliat-Ray, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,” in The American Journal of Islamic Societies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 130-31 ◊ Jorgen Nielsen, “The End of the Line” –a review of Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation, in The Times Literary Supplement, September 2003, pp. 10-12. ◊ Rose Aparicio, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,” in The International Migration Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2003, pp. 899-900. ◊ K. Adamson, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,” in The Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2003.

◊ Ali Akhbar Mahdi, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization,” in Contemporary Sociology, 32:5, September 2003, pp.628-630.

◊ Nadeen Thomas, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,” in The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Spring 2003.

◊ Ludmilla Pavlova, “Hybrid Urbanism” in Multicultural Review, 11:1, March 2002, pp. 91-92.

◊ Ali Modarres, “Hybrid Urbanism” in Journal of Urban Affairs,

Vol. 24, No. 3, 2002, pp. 372-375.

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◊ Michael Scantlebury, “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism,” in the Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp 575-76. ◊ Elizabeth Chacko, “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage” in Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 16, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 543-544. ◊ James Connolly “Hybrid Urbanism” in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin-MESA, Vol. 36, 2002, pp. 78-79. ◊ Paul Wilkinson “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage” in Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 21, No.2, Winter 2001 pp. 213-215. ◊ Robert Home, “The Image May Replace Reality?”A review of

“Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage” in Built Environment, Vol. 26, No. 4.

◊ Miranda McMinn “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage” in Environment and Planning A5 Vol. 33, 2001, pp. 2083- 2088. ◊ B.J. Nontski, “Cairo: A City in Flux Through Time: The Work of Nezar AlSayyad” in Rendering Real and Imagined Buildings, Rockport Publishers, Glouchester, 1998, pp. 50-53.

◊ Brenda Yeoh, “Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise,” in Journal of Historical Geography 23:2, April 1997, p. 238.

◊ Michael Heffernan, “A Review of Forms of Dominance” in

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 13:2, 1995, 243-245. ◊ Jane Loeffler, “Export Architecture”, in Progressive Architecture,

No. 5, 1994, pp. 115-128. ◊ Paul Cobb, “Cities and Caliphs - On the Genesis of Arab Muslim

Urbanism - AlSayyad, N.,” in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54:3, July 1994, pp. 224-226.

◊ Marilyn Tadros, “A Review of Cities and Caliphs,” in Egyptian

Gazette, February 1994. ◊ Darrick Danta, “A Review of Cities and Caliphs,” in Journal of

Historical Geography 21:2, April 1994, pp. 20-21. ◊ Alexander Melamid, “Cities and Caliphs - On the Genesis of

Arab Muslim Urbanism - AlSayyad, N.,” in Geographical Review 82:4, October 1992, pp. 493-494.

◊ "L'Architetto e Il Computer", in Costruire, No. 109, June 1992, p.

197.

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◊ Gerald Blake, "A Review of Cities and Caliphs," in Middle East Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 329-330.

◊ Horst Reichert, "A Review of Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition,"

in Tribus, No. 40, 1991, pp. 207-208. ◊ Richard Ingersol, "The Third World is Dead, Long Live the Third

World," in Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 44 No. 4, Fall 1991.

◊ "Conference Considers Third World Buildings," in Progressive

Architecture, December 1990. ◊ Antonius Robben, a review of Dwellings, Settlements and

Tradition, in Journal of Anthropological Research, Volume 46 No. 3, Fall 1991, pp. 347-350.

◊ Alan Eyre, a review of Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition, in

Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 39, 1990, pp. 267-272. ◊ Anne Hublin, in Compte Rendu: Habitats Traditionnels: Un

Approach Comparative. Paris, May 1988. REVIEWS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ◊ “Aga-khan Award for Architecture Building Cultural Bridges,” by Zahid Sardar, San Francisco Chronicle March 1, 2003. ◊ “Designing on Campus: Nezar AlSayyad and the New Center for Middle Eastern Studies” by Annie Tennant CED News, Fall 2000. pp. 18-14.

◊ “Architecture as Story-Telling: A Project by XXA, Nezar

AlSayyad, Architect” in Al-Bena’a Al-Jadid, 1998, 203, pp. 37-39 (Arabic and English).

◊ “The Recent Work of XXA: An Interview with Nezar AlSayyad of the

Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture” in Madina, 1998, 3, pp. 22-25. REVIEW ARTICLES BY NEZAR ALSAYYAD ◊ “Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730 –1831,” (Thomas Phillip) in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2003, pp. 977-79. ◊ “Cities from the Arabian Desert” (Andrea Pampanini) in Middle East Journal, 1998, 30:2. ◊ “Urban Development in Saudi Arabia” (edited by S. Al-

Hathloul) in Environment and Planning A, Volume 29, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 757-758.

◊ "Housing, Culture and Environment: A Review of Two

Conferences," a review paper prepared for the Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 58-59, 1992.

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◊ "Juan Campo's The Other Side of Paradise," in Middle East

Journal, No. 2, 1992. ◊ "History as Design," in Alam Al-Bena'a, December 1991 (in

Arabic). ◊ "The Architecture of Saddam," in Design Book Review, No. 22, Fall

1991, pp. 7-9. ◊ "Jamel Akbar's Crisis in the Built Environment: A Review." In

Middle East Journal, No. 4, 1989, pp. 242-244.

◊ "Arab Muslim Cities." In Design Book Review, No. 14, Spring 1988.

PUBLICATIONS OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH IN TECHNICAL REPORTS ◊ "A Cultural Account: Users and Interior Finishing in Egypt." In

Systems for Housing Construction in Egypt, MIT Technology Adaptation Program Publications, 1981.

◊ Eric Dluhosch, Waclow Zalewski, assisted by Nezar AlSayyad,

"A Lightweight/Small Component System for Low-Income Sector Housing in Egypt." In Interim Report 1979; Housing and the Construction Industry in Egypt, MIT Technology Adaptation Program Publication, 1980.

◊ Reinhard Goethert, Zakia Shafie, assisted by Nezar AlSayyad,

"Housing for Low-Income and Informal Sector," in Interim Report 1978; Housing and the Construction Industry in Egypt, MIT Technology Adaptation Program Publications, 1979.

ARTICLES IN NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINES AND BOOKS ◊ “Islamic Architecture” in Jebel Journal: UPM Community Magazine

(Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), February 1984. ◊ Greece: the Land and the People. A translation into Arabic from the

English original of People Book Series on Countries of the World, Dar al-Ma'aref, Cairo, Egypt, November 1979.

◊ "Contemporary Egyptian Architecture," (in Arabic). In Alam Al-Ben'a

Magazine (Cairo, Egypt), December 1977.

RESEARCH BULLETINS AND PROJECT REPORTS ◊ "Nano City: A New Community in the 21st Century," a publication of the Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning (BgAP) for Nano Works Inc. Haryana, India, 2008. ◊ “Hadaik Towers,” report to the Engineering Development and

Real Estate Company, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

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◊ “Four Sails Resort, South Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt,” report

prepared for the Egyptian Company for Touristic Development, Cairo, Egypt, 1995.

◊ "Canavaccio: A Highway, a Railway, a Road and a River," and

"Attachment/Detachment". In Reading and Design of the Physical Environment II. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, Quattro Venti, Urbino, Italy, 1993, pp. 46-51 and 124-127.

◊ "The Alexandrina: A Competition Entry Report" (with Mark

Mack). Submitted to UNESCO/UIA, Paris, 1990. ◊ "Environmental Design in Developing Countries: A Proposal for

an Area of Emphasis in Architecture." University of California, Berkeley, 1989.

◊ "An Energy Efficient Atrium." A report prepared by Cromwell,

Trumper, Parker, Levy, and Woodsmall, Architects, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1984.

◊ "Housing Schemes for the University of Petroleum and

Minerals." A report including design proposals by the class of ED 102-1982, Jury and Analysis of Projects. UPM, College of Environmental Design, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1983.

◊ "Lagoon Development: Ikoyi, Lagos." A report by Minoru

Yamasaki and Associates, Troy, Michigan, 1982. ◊ "Core Housing & Site and Service Projects for Low-Income

Groups," co-editor and translator. A report by the Joint Research Team on Housing (MIT/CU), Technology Adaptation Program Publications, Cambridge, 1980.

◊ "The Master Plan of the City of Belbeis." A report by the Town

Planning Diploma Group, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Graduate Studies, Cairo, Egypt, 1979.