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Areas of Specialization

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
1977	CAIRO UNIVERSITY, Cairo, Egypt
	◊ Bachelor of Architectural Engineering

Academic Experience and Positions

1998 - present	PROFESSOR
	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
2015 - present	FACULTY DIRECTOR
	Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies (CASES) University of California, Berkeley
	Establishment and administration of a new innovative Center concerned with teaching and research exchanges between U.C. Berkeley and Universities in Arab Countries, particularly Kuwait – funded by The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
2014 - 2015	VISITING PROFESSOR (while on sabbatical from U.C. Berkeley)
	School of Design and Environment & Institute of Middle Eastern Studies National University of Singapore, Singapore
	Taught Ph.D. workshop.
October 2014 – December 2014	Faculty of Architecture University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Taught a short seminar and a studio.
June 2015	Melbourne School of Design University of Melbourne, Australia
	Taught a short seminar.
1995-2014	CHAIR
	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.
2000-2014	PROGRAM CHAIR
	Middle Eastern Studies (MES) Undergraduate Program University of California, Berkeley
2009–2014	PROGRAM CHAIR & HEAD GRADUATE ADVISOR
	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.
1996-1999 & 2006-2011	HEAD OF GRADUATE ADVISORS AND COMMITTEE CHAIR
	M.S. – Ph.D. in Architecture Graduate Program University of California, Berkeley
2010-2011	INTERIM DIRECTOR
	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.
2003-2008	ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
	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 singleumbrella of this new program.
2008-present	PRESIDENT
	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.
1988 2008	CO-FOUNDER&PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR
	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.
1989-present	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 - June 1998	ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ADJUNCT PROFESSOR/VISITING LECTURER/RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
	College of Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley
	Taught lecture courses, seminars and studios.
January 1985 - December 1987	Interior Design Program University Extension
	Taught studios in residential and commercial design.
February 1982 - July 1984	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
	College of Environmental Design University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
	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 - July 1981	FIELD RESEARCHER
	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 - July 1979	RESEARCH ASSISTANT
	Joint Research Team on Housing (CU/MIT) Technology Planning Center, Cairo University Technology Adaptation Program
	Prepared studies on the application of different planning models to Egypt and conducting a field survey on the housing situation in Cairo.
September 1977 - July 1979	INSTRUCTOR/DEMONSTRATOR
	Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
	Assisted in the teaching of courses on housing, urban design, and architectural practice.

Public Service, Administration and Consulting

2009-2012	DIRECTOR
2003-2006	Board of Directors, The Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago
2003-present	EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
	Encyclopedia of 20-th Century Architecture International Journal of Islamic 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, Ashgate; Blackwell; Bloomsbury; Continuum Press; Harvard University Press; John Wiley & Sons; MIT Press; Routledge; University of Minnesota Press.
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, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Society & Space, Urban Design International, Urban Design Journal, Urban Studies.
	JUROR, PROFESSIONAL REFEREE AND CONSULTANT
April 2018	Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)
	Juror for an international competition to design the new headquarters of the foundation in Kuwait City.
June 2016 & June 2015	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Juror for Master of Architecture Graducation Project.
May 2015	Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
	Juror for Master of Architecture Graducation Project.
2012	King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) and the American University in Cairo (AUC)
	Chair of review committee to integrate desert buildings technology project.
2012	Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art and Planning
	Member of review committee for the Department of City and Regional Planning.
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, jury selection.
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
	Member 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 in the 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".
1995-1996	King Abdul Azia University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects.
1995-1996	King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
	Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects.
1995	Ministry of Development, Brunei
	Workshop on Housing and Physical Planning Programs.
1994	University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
	Adviser on promotion cases and reviewer of research projects.
1993	Center for Field Research, Boston
	Reviewer.
1992	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.
	Advisor and Reviewer for Promotion Cases
	King Abdul Aziz University, King Saud University, MIT, New York University, University of California at Davis,University of California at Irvine, University of California at Merced, University of California at Santa Barbara,University of Pennsylvania.
	CONSULTING SERVICE: National & International Level
2017	Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS)
	Consultant to develop the program and identify the process for designing a new headquarters for the foundation.
2015-2019	CRASSH – Center for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
	Member of the John Harvard Colloquium on Topographies of Citizenship – a four-year interdisciplinary research project involving 18 international scholars.
2015	WIKISTRAT – Crowdsourcing Consulting
	Occasional Analyst on Middle East issues.
March 2013	Shangrila – Doris Duke Foundation
	Co-chair, Ph.D. dissertation workshop on the theme Islamic Architecture & Urbanism.
2004-2012	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
1983-1984	Chair, Continuing Education Program
1982-1983	Member, Committees on Exhibitions and Lectures
1982-1983	Curriculum, Computer Utilization, and several faculty search committees.
	COMMITTEE SERVICE:University of California, Berkeley
2015-2016	College of Environmental Design
	Member of the CED Executive Committee.
2008-2013	Blum Center for Developing Economies
	Member of Education Committee.
2007-2009	New Media Center
	Member, Faculty Advisory Committee.
1996 – Present	Ad-Hoc Committees
	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 Eastern Studies
	Executive Committee Member.
1991-1994	Academic Senate
	Member of the Subcommittee on the American Cultures Requirement.
1988 - present	Department of Architecture
	Chair, Environmental Design in Developing Countries Area of Emphasis Adviser, Undergraduate Minor in Environmental Design in Developing Countries Member Ph.D. Committee, M.Arch Committee, Faculty Search Committee, Prizes & Committee, and other ad hoc committees.
2006 - present	Department of City & Regional Planning
2011-2013	M.C.P. Committee.
2009-2011	Ph.D. Committee.

Professional Affiliations

• ACSA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Affiliate Member
• ACSP, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Affiliate Member
• APA, American Planning Association, Member
• HIAA, Historians of Islamic Art Association, 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

Professional Architectural Practice

Awards and Fellowships

May 2015	RESIDENT FELLOW
	School of Architecture, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
2014-2015	J. SIMON GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
	A grant for research on Nile: Urban Histories on the Bank of a River.
2009	RESIDENT FELLOW
	July 2009, Foundation Les Treilles, France
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	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
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)
1994	ARAB URBAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
	Award for Best Conference in the Study of Traditional Arab Environments, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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
	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

Grants As Principal Investigator, Endowments and Fund-Raising

2018-	King Salman Center for Local Governance (KSCLG), A grant to collaborate on symposia and projects related to comparative urban governance issues for the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies (CASES) at UC Berkeley. ($85,000)
2016-2018	Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, A grant to establish the Kuwait Program for Contemporary Arab Culture and to initiate the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies (CASES) at UC Berkeley. ($1 million)
2014-2018	U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Grant for activities for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. ($2.6 million)
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 &MejganMassoumi ($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)
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)
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 Eastern 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.
1992-1992	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 Eastern 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 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.

TV and Radio Interviews

2022	The complete works of Nezar Alsayyad, Part III
	Video Interview Arabic, June 2022
2022	The complete works of Nezar Alsayyad, Part II
	Video Interview Arabic, May 2022
2022	The complete works of Nezar Alsayyad, Part I
	Video Interview Arabic, April 2022
2021	On the “Cities & Caliphs” book
	Short Video Interview in Arabic, March 2021
2018	Interview, Nile Cultural Channel
	Egyptian Television, January 2018.
2016	Interview, the Program “Happening.”
	Kuwait T.V., December 2016.
2015	Video Interview in People & Places Conference
	University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 2015
2015	Interview, Franklin Center at Duke University
	AlSayyad speaks with Miriam Cooke about cities and traditional environments, “Cities: Traditional Environments” for the Rethinking Global Cities project, March 4 2015.
2015	Interview with Prof. Maryam Cook at Duke University
	“Cities: Traditional Environments”, February 2015
2015	Vox Pop, Culture, Identity, and Urbanism
	UC Berkeley, 2015.
2014	Interview, HKUx
	AlSayyad speaks with David Lung about informal settlements and the vernacular, “The Search for Vernacular Architecture of Asia, Part 2,” October 2014.
2013	Interview, The Tavis Smiley Radio Show
	“Egypt’s Revolution,” July 12, 2013.
2013	Interview, KQED
	AlSayyad speaks with Michael Krasny about Egypt’s former president, “Mubarak Acquitted.” August 20 2013.
2013	Interview, Fairness Radio
	AlSayyad speaks with Patrick OHeffernan about Egypt’s future in, “NezarAlSayyad: Egypt. Beverly Bell Haiti.” July 8 2013.
2013	Interview, KQED Radio
	AlSayyad speaks with Michael Krasny about Egypt in, “Mass Demonstrations in Egypt Gain Momentum.” July 8 2013.
2013	Interview, KPFA
	AlSayyad speaks with Philip Maldari about Egypt’s current events on, “The Sunday Show.” July 7 2013.
2013	Interview, Voice of America
	“Analyst: Egypt’s Army Must Control Morsi Supporters.” July 7 2013.
2013	Interview, Voice of America
	“Analyst says Egyptian Events Not a Military Coup.” July 3 2013.
2013	Interview, Fairness Radio
	AlSayyad speaks with Patrick OHeffernan about the removal of Egypt’s President Morsi in, “The Fairness Doctrine.” July 2 2013.
2013	Interview, Voice of America
	“Egypt’s High Court Proposed as Crisis Solution.” July 2 2013.
2013	Interview, Current TV
	AlSayyad speaks with Jennifer Granholm in “The War Room” and discusses “Why Americans Should be Paying Attention to Unrest in Egypt.” January 2013.
2012	Interview with Joseph Vogl
	House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany, February 2012
2012	Take Five
	UC Berkeley, September 2012.
2011	Interview, Bloomberg TV
	AlSayyad speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's “Bottom Line” and discusses the outlook for Egypt's government. Aired on Feb. 10, 2011.
2011	Interview, Bloomberg TV
	AlSayyad speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's “Bottom Line” and discusses the political unrest in Egypt. Aired on Feb. 2, 2011
2011	Interview, KPFA Public Radio.
	AlSayyad gives commentary on KPFA's “Letters and Politics” program and discusses the unrest in Egypt. Aired on Jan. 31, 2011.
2010	Video Interview in English
	Fiar Lux, UC Berkeley, March 2010
2002	“UC Berkeley Faculty Analyze Iraq War: Nezar AlSayyad on the War”
	by Bonnie Azab Powell, Berkeleyan-Online, April 2, 2002.
2001	“Aswan High Dam” & “The Suez Canal” Guest Appearance Modern Marvels Program
	HISTORY CHANNEL Productions, 2001.
2000	Joseph Vogl in Conversation with Nezar AlSayyad
	UC Berkeley, September 2000.

Newspaper and Print Coverage

2019	Interview, “The city behind the square”
	Egypt, Al-Ahram Weekly, February 2019.
2017	Interview, The Arabic Translation of the Cairo Book
	The Program “Thaqafah.” Nile T.V., December 2017.
2017	Interview, “Nezar AlSayyad with Mona Abaza discuss where we come from!”
	in Open Decomcracy. June 2017.
2016	Interview, Al-Ahram newspaper
	“Reframing Civility to the Egyptian Street,” January 2016.
2015	“AlSayyad Speaks about Development in Cairo.”
	A full-page interview in Egyptian daily newspaper, Al-Shorouk, April 2015.
2013	Interview, Voice of America
	“Panel Approves New Egyptian Draft Constitution.” December 2 2013.
2013	Op-Ed Contributor
	“Mohamed Morsi Trial: Is Egypt Ready for Democracy?” in International Business Times, November 18 2013.
2013	Interview, Jaddaliya
	AlSayyad speaks with HibaBouAkar, “Urbanists Can Never Afford to be Apolitical: An Interview with NezarAlSayyad on Urbanization in the Middle East.” September 30 2013.
2013	Interview, National Geographic
	“The Egyptian Military’s Huge Historical Role.” July 5 2013.
2011	Op-Ed Contributor
	“Cairo’s Roundabout Revolution” in the New York Times, April 13, 2011.
2011	Interview, Bloomberg TV
	AlSayyad speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's “Bottom Line” and discusses the demonstrations in Saudi Arabia. Protesters in Saudi Arabia stayed away from a so-called Day of Rage after police were deployed in force to deter political activists. Saudi Arabia has tried to calm oil markets and avoid political upheaval with $36 billion of jobless benefits, education and housing subsidies and debt write-offs. Aired on Mar. 11, 2011.
2009	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, 2004-2009.
2008	“Adabiyat” – Main Guest with host Gamal El-Ghitani
	on a major television program of Nile Television, Cairo, Egypt, July 2008.
2007	“Searching for the Lost Urban Wealth”: A Symposium with Nezar Alsayyad and Gamal Al-Ghitani
	in Akhbar Al-Adab, July 29 2007
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.
2006	Seminar
	held in conjunction with and for Al-Akhbar an Egyptian daily on Cities in the Middle East, June 2006
2003	“Hamas, la bomba radical que remece a Israel” by Pablo Soto Gonzalez.
	El Mercurio, Chile, June 14, 2003.
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.
2003	“Middle Eastern Studies: The New Push”
	in Aramco World, January/February, 2003, pp. 2-13.
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.
2001	“After September 11: The Faculty Reflects”
	California Monthly, November , 2001, Vol. 112, No.2.
1996	“A Blue Print for Egypt: It’s Past is Recreated”
	by Mary Rajkumar Oakland Tribune, April 29, 1996, pp. 11&12.
1996	“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.
1995	“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.
1996	“Adobe Comes into Its Own: The Mud Architecture of Professor AlSayyad”
	by Kathleen Scalise, Berkeleyan, April 17-23, 1996, p 2.
1991	Akhtar Badshah, “First World: Third World”
	in Mimar, No. 38, 1991, pp. 15-16.
1988	“Scholars to Discuss Environment: Large Campus Symposium to Focus on Cultural Dwellings”
	in The Daily Californian, April 4, 1988

Research and Ph.D. Mentorship

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

2020	Chinan, Ioana, Ph.D. in Architecture, “In Search of Socialist Comfort: Architecture and Housing Politics in Romania 1968-1989,” 2020.
2019	Ghorbani, Razieh, Ph.D. in Architecture, “Recession Narratives: Architecture and Construction in Iran Under Economic Recession,” 2019.
2018	Melika, Aida, Ph.D. in Architecture “War Museum, Memorial sites, and Militarized Landscapes in Iran,” 2018.
2018	Shirvani, Shahrzad, Ph.D. in Architecture, “Urban Landscapes of Leisure in Tehran, Iran,” 2018.
2018	El-Zoghbi, Riem, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning “(Reordering) the Arab City: Transforming the Urban Public Realm in Cairo and Doha,” 2018.
2017	Almubaraki, Shaikha, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Featuring Domesticity: Film and Television Representation of the Space of the Family; Egypt and Kuwait,” 2017.
2017	Kadkani-Schmitt, Zahra, Ph.D. in Architecture“Framing Bosnia: The Politics of Architecture and City Building in the Austro-Hungarian Administration, 1878-1903,” 2017.
2017	Eom, Sujin, Ph.D. in Architecture. “Chinatown Urbanism: Architecture, Migrancy, and Modernity in the Asia Pacific,” 2017.
2017	Wilkof, Shira, Ph.D. in Architecture. “Urban Arcadias: Émigré Experts, Spatial Knowledge, and the Rise of Zionist-Israeli Planning, 1933-1953,” 2017.
2016	Navali, Shraddha, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Construction of the Indian Muslim Neighborhood in Delhi,” 2016.
2016	Tomer, Sharon, Ph.D. in Architecture.“After Modernism: Architectural Articulation of Apartheid’s End in Cape Town,” 2016.
2015	Abu-Hamdi, Eliana, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Neoliberal Governance in Amman, Jordan,” 2015.
2015	Goodman, Anna, Ph.D. in Architecture. “Citizen Architects: Ethics, Education and the construction of a Profession,” 2015.
2015	El-Husseiny, Momen, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Compounds of Modernity: Egypt, 1940-present,” 2015.
2015	Godlewski, Joseph, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Architectures of Sovereignty and Autonomy: Historicizing Zoning Technologies in Calabar, Nigeria,” 2015.
2015	Gonick, Sophie, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning.“At the Margins of Europe: Home Ownership, Inclusion and Protest in Contemporary Madrid,” 2015.
2014	Seeumpornroj, Pat, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Architecture Assemblages: Tradition, Modernity and Identity in the Makin gof Global Forms in Thailand, 1932-2006,” 2014.
2014	Guvenc, Muna, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Nationalist Politics and the City: The Making of Kurdish Neighborhood in Diyarbakir, Turkey,” 2014.
2014	Ion, Elena, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Infrastructures of Scarcity: Urban Transformations and Austerity in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania,” 2014.
2014	Akhtar, Saima, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Corporate Empire: Fordism and the Making of Immigrant Detroit,” 2014.
2014	Matsipa, Mpho, Ph.D. in Architecture.“The Order of Appearances: Urban Renewal in Johannesburg,” 2014.
2013	Roudbari, Shawhin, Ph.D. in Architecture.“The Transnational Transformation of Architecture Practice: Iranian Architects in the New Geography of Professional Authority, 1945-2012,” 2013.
2013	Damluji, Mona, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Petroleum’s Promise: The Neo-colonial Imaginary of Oil Cities in the Modern Arabian Gulf,” 2013.
2012	Alissa, Reem, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Building for Oil: Corporate Colonialism, Nationalism and Urban Modernity in Ahmadi, 1946-1992,” 2012.
2012	Arboleda, Gabriel, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Ethnoengineering: Negotiating the Modern in a ‘Culturally Appropriate’ Government Program in Ecuador,” 2012.
2011	Allweil, Yael. Ph.D. in Architecture. “Building A Home-Land: Zionism As A Regime Of Houseing1860-2005,” 2011.
2011	Castela, Tiago. Ph.D. in Architecture. “A Liberal Space: A History OfThe Illegalized Working -Class Extensions Of Lisbon,” 2011.
2011	Lu, Yishi. Ph.D. in Architecture. “Competing Visions Of The Modern: Urban Transformation And Social Change Of Changhun, China,” 2011.
2011	Tsui, Chung Man. Ph.D. in Architecture. “A History Of Dispossession: Governmentality And The Title: Competing Visions Of The Modern: Urban Transformation And Social Change Of Changhun, 1932-1952,” 2011.
2011	Yun, Jieheerah. Ph.D. in Architecture. “Like The World: Korean Articulations Of Globalization In The Global Zones, 1987-present,” 2011.
2011	Chu, Cecilia. Ph.D. in Architecture. “Speculative Modern: Urban Forms And The Politics Of Property In Colonial Hong Kong,” 2011.
2010	Al, Stefan, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning.“The Strip: Las Vegas and the Symbolic Destruction of Spectacle,” 2010.
2010	Cowan, Susanne, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Democracy, Technocracy and Publicity: Public Consultation and British Planning, 1939-1951,” 2010.
2009	Chang, Jiat-Hwee, Ph.D. in Architecture.“A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Singapore in the British (Post) Colonial Networks of Nature, Technoscience and Governmentality, 1830’s to 1960’s,” 2009.
2009	Valencia, Adriana, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Migration and the City: The Impact of Morisco Expulsion upon Granada, Valencia, Rabat, and Tetouan,” 2009.
2008	Tureli, Ipek, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity,” 2008.
2008	Shamir, Adi, Ph.D. in Architecture.“Bauhaus Style: The Architecture of Hebrew Labor in British Mandate Tel Aviv, Palestine,” 2008.
2008	Kim, Jung In, Ph.D. in Architecture. “Constructing a “ Miracle”, Architecture, National Identity and Development on the Han River A Critical Exploration of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul 1961-1988,” 2008.
2008	Desai, Renu, Ph.D. in Architecture. “The Globalizaing City in the Time of Hindutva: The Politics of Urban Development and Citizenship in Ahmedabad, India,” 2008.
2007	Moreno Carranco, Maria Del Carmen, Ph.D in Architecture. “The Socio/Spatial Production of the Global: Mexico CityReinvented Through the Santa Fe Urban Megaproject,” 2007.
2007	Rajagopalan, Mrinalini, Ph.D in Architecture.“The Modern Lives of Medieval Monuments: The Intersection of Nation and Aesthetics in Delhi, India,” 2007.
2006	Stallmeyer, John, Ph.D in Architecture.“Architecture and Urban Form in India's Silicon Valley: a Case Study of Bangalore,” 2006.
2005	Lai, Chee-Kien, Ph.D in Architecture.“Concrete/ Concentric Nationalism: The Architecture of Independence in Malaysia, 1945-1969,” 2005.
2004	Mehta, ReenaHuzefa, Ph.D in Architecture. “Cultural Crossroads - The Making of Diasporic Places and Identities,” 2004.
2004	Gillem, Mark, Ph.D in Architecture.“America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire,” 2004.
2003	Lu, Duanfang, Ph.D in Architecture.“Building the Chinese Work Unit: Modernity, Scarcity, and Space, 1949-2000,” 2003.
2002	Irazabal, Clara Elena, Ph.D in Architecture.“Curitiba and Portland: Architecture, City Making, and Urban Governance in the Era of Globalization,” 2002.
2002	Schwayri, Sofia Toufic, Ph.D in Architecture.“Beirut 1975-1990: The Making and Remaking of a City During Civil War,” 2002.
2002	Broudehoux, Anne-Marie, Ph.D in Architecure.“Modernity With Chinese Characteristics: Urban Image,” 2002.
2002	Abdel-Kader, Mohamed Hussein, Ph.D in Architecture.“Cairo: 1952-2001 Identity, Housing and Urban Form in a Changing Political Economy,” 2002.
2001	Ahmed, Heba Farouk, Ph.D in Architecture.“Pre-Colonial Modernity: The State and the Making of 19th Century Cairo’s Urban Form,” 2001.
2000	Mwendwa, SukiKalooKathuka, Ph.D in Architecture.“Home 2: The Poetics and Politics of Housing in Kenya,” 2000.
1997	Gensheimer, Thomas Robert, Ph.D in Architecture. “At the Boundaries of Dar-al-Islam: Cities of the East African Coast in the Late Middle Ages,” 1997.
1995	Miraftab, Faranak, Ph.D in Architecture.“A Misfit Between Policy and People: The Search for Housingby Female-Headed Households in Guadalajara, Mexico,” 1995.

CURRENT PH.D. PROJECTS

2018	Melika, Aida, Ph.D. in Architecture
	“War Museum, Memorial sites, and Militarized Landscapes in Iran,” Expected 2018.
2018	Shirvani, Shahrzad, Ph.D. in Architecture
	“Urban Landscapes of Leisure in Tehran, Iran,” Expected 2018.
2018	Chinan, Ioana, Ph.D. in Architecture
	“In Search of Socialist Comfort: Architecture and Housing Politics in Romania 1968-1989,” Expected 2018.
2019	Ghorbani, Razieh, Ph.D. in Architecture
	“Recession Narratives: Architecture and Construction in Iran Under Economic Recession,” Expected 2019.

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER AND/OR EXAM CHAIR

2015	Wessel, Ginette, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning
	“Mobilizing Food Vending: Technology Community and Urban Space in the American City,” 2015.
2015	Saylor, Elizabeth, Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic Language
	“AfifaKarm and Modern Arabic Literature,” 2015.
2013	Burga, Fernando, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning
	“Planning the Immigrant City: Cuban American Spatial Politics and the Transformation of Miami,” 2013.
2012	Nam, Sylvia, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning
	“Phnom Penh: from Politics of Ruin to Possibilities of Return,” 2012.
2012	BouAkar, Heba, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning
	“Contesting Beirut’s Frontiers: Urban Development and the Spatial Production of Religion in Political Difference,” 2012.
2011	Lopez, Sara, Ph.D in Architecture
	“The Remittance House,” 2011.
2010	Pietro Calogero, Ph.D. in Architecture
	“Planning Kabul: The Politics of Urbanization in Afghanistan,” 2010.
2010	Doctors, Steven, Ph.D in Architecture
	“The Collaborative Divide: Crafting Architectural Identity, Authority, and Authorship in the Twentieth Century,” 2010.
2009	Rojas, Carmen, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“The Revolutionary Urbanism: The Battle for the Streets of Caracas, Venezuela,” 2009.
2009	Tierney, Therese, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Situated Networks: In [Re]search of the Public,” 2009.
2008	Murphy, Stacey, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“The Politics of Benevolence: Managing Homelessness in San Francisco,” 2008.
2008	Gabiam, Nell, Ph.D. in Anthropology
	“In Order not to Forget: Dignity and Development in Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps,” 2008.
2008	Sanyal, Romola, Ph.D in Architecture
	“An Architecture of Displacement: Spatializing Identity and Refugee Space in Beirut and Calcutta,” 2008.
2008	Mukherji, Anuradha, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Negotiating Housing Recovery: Why Some Communities Recovered While Others Struggled to Rebuild in Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India,” 2008.
2007	Hom-Cary, Stephanie, Ph.D. in Italian Studies
	“Destination Italy: Tourism, Colonialism, and the Modern Italian Nation-state, 1861-1947,” 2007.
2007	McPherson, Sean, Ph.D in Architecture
	“A Tradition of Change: A History of Chita Dashimatsuri, 1600-2005,” 2007.
2006	Toxey, Anne, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Tides of Politics Traced in Stone: Modernization, Preservation, and Residues of Change,” 2006.
2006	Cousineau, Jennifer, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Making the Northwest London Eruv, 1988-2003: The Construction, Representation, and Experience of a Sabbath Space,” 2006.
2006	Rujivacharakul, Vimalin, Ph.D in Architecture
	“The Rise of Chinese Architectural History: Cross-Cultural Studies and the Making of Modern Knowledge,” 2006.
2005	Dyckman, Caitlin, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“Loval Government Roles in Water Conservation” 2005.
2004	Gruen, Jason Philip, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Manifest Destinations: Tourist Encounters in the Urban American West, 1869-1893,” 2004.
2003	Pieris, AnomaDarshani, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: Penal Labor and Colonial Citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825-1873,” 2003.
2001	Alami, Mohammed Hamdouni, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies
	“Al-Bayan wa l-Bunyan: Meaning, Poetics, and Politics in early Islamic Architecture,” 2001.
2001	Ginsburg, Rebecca Ann, Ph.D in Architecture
	“At Home with Apartheid: The Cultural Landscapes of Suburban Johannesburg, 1960-1976,” 2001.
2000	Catillo, Gregory Alan, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Constructing the Cold War: Architecture, Urbanism and the Cultural Division of Germany, 1945-1957,” 2000.
1999	Hosgrahar, Jyoti, Ph.D in Architecture
	“The Development of Delhi in the 20th century,” 1999.
1999	Kezar, Zeynep, Ph.D in Architecture
	“The Making of a National Capital: Ideology and Socio-Spatial Practices in Early Republican Ankara,” 1999.
1997	Bartu, Ayfer, Ph.D in Anthropology
	“Heritage Politics in Istanbul,” 1997.
1997	Chattopadhyay, Swati, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Depicting Calcutta,” 1997.
1996	Thake, Conrad Gerald, Ph.D in Architecture
	“Architectural and Urban Transformations of a Citadel in Malta,” 1996.
1995	Sadek, Rula, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“Housing Policy and the Making of the Nation State: Jordan, Kuwait, and Lebanon,” 1995.
1994	Pamuk, Ayse, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“Convergence Trends in Formal and Informal Housing Markets: The Case of Turkey,” 1994.
1994	Fuller, Mia. Ph.D. in Anthropology
	“The Architecture of Italian Imperialism in Libya,” 1994.
1992	Leaf, Michael, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning
	“Land Rights for Residential Development in Jakarta, Indonesia: The Colonial Roots of Contemporary Urban Dualism,” 1992.

Public Lectures, Conferences, Workshops and 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.
Nov-2016	A Historical Perspective from Colonialism to Globalism.
	Lecture at University of New Mexico
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.
Jul-2016	1st International Colloquium, Virtual Cairo
	Virtual Heritage Cairo Network, Cairo, Egypt
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.
Apr-2016	Nezar Alsayyad, CELAT. Keynote at Quebec University, Quebec, Canada
	Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition
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.
Apr-2015	Keynote at People & Places Conference, University of South Wales, Sidney, Australia
	Consuming Tradition / Manufacturing Heritage
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.
Feb-2015	Tahrir Square
	Virtual Uprisings. Keynote address at the Rethinking Global Cities Conference, Duke University, North Carolina
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.
Mar-2011	Lecture at New Castle University, New Castle, UK
	The Fundamentalist City Medieval Modernity
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.
Feb-2010	Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington. D.C.
	"Cities and Fundamentalisms Symposium"
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, Germany
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.
Jan-2000	Education City Conference, Doha, Quatar
	Doha, Quatar
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.

Books By And About Nezar Alsayyad

	Routledge Handbook on Cairo: Histories, Representations and Discourses.
	Routledge; 1st edition (December 30, 2022).
	Cinematic Cairo: A History of Egyptian Modernity from Reel to Real.
	American University in Cairo Press: Cairo, 2022.
	Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River
	Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
	Whose Tradition?
	Routledge; 1 edition (June 21, 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-editor 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-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.
	The End of Tradition? (version 2)
	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.
	Europa Musulmana O Euro-Islam
	Barcelona: Alianza Editorial/Ensayo, 2003 (In Spanish).
	Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam
	Co-editor with Manuel Castells. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2002.
	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.
	Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)
	Greenwood Press; 1st edition. May 30, 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

	Architecture's Poverty.
	London: Routledge, publication scheduled for 2024.

FILMS AND VIDEOS FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION

1998	Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History.
	IASTE Productions
	Written, produced and directed by Nezar AlSayyad.
1994	At Home with Mother Earth.
	IASTE / Feat of Clay Productions
	Written and Produced by NezarAlSayyad, MortezaRezvani, and David Weisman. Directed by MortezaRezvani and David Weisman. Narrated by EarthaKitt.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS BY OTHERS

2021	“The Mosque in the Urban Context”
	in The Religious Architecture of Islam, edited by Hasan-Uddin Khan and Kathrine Blair Moore, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
2020	“The Challenges in the Transition from Vernacularism to Globalization”
	in The Routledge handbook of People and Place in the 21st Century, edited by Kate Bishop and Nanacy Marshall, London & New York: Routledge, 2020.
2020	“On the Possibility of Urban Citizneship,”
	in Being Urban, edited by Simon Goldhill, London & New York: Routledge, 2020.
2019	“Inclusion and Exclusion in the Arab City: Discourses on Identity and Urbanism”
	in Site of Pluralism, edited by FirtOruc. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
2018	“Bottom-Down Urbanism,”
	in Bottom-up Urbanism, edited by Mahyar Arefi and Concrad Kickent. New York: Palgrave, 2018.
2018	“The Death and Life of the Fundamentalist City: A Prelude to Medieval Modernity,”
	in Religious Pluralism and the City, Edited by M. Berking, S. Steeves, and Schwenk. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
2016	“The Arab City, the Middle Eastern City, the Islamic City: Reflections on a Concept.”
	In Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World, edited by Robert Saliba. London: Ashgate, 2016.
2013	“The Arab ‘Spring’ and the Rise of the Fundamentalist City.”
	In Global Prayers: Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City, edited by Jochen Becker,Katrin Klingan, Stephen Lanz, and Kathrin Wildner, 144-156. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2013.
2013	“Identity, Culture, and Urbanism: Remarks from Colonialism to Globalization.”
	In The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalisation, edited by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Guillermo GarmaMontiel. London: Routledge,2013.
2011	“The Sustainability of the Indigenous Vernacular: Interrogating a Myth”
	with Gabriel Arboleda. In The Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture, edited by Sang Lee. Rotterdam: Rotterdam Publishers, 2011.
2010	“Culture, Identity and Urbanism: A Historical Perspective from Colonialism and Globalisation.”
	In Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past Rebellions for the Future, edited by Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, and Marion von Osten. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010.
2009	“Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical Limitations and Democratizing Potential.”
	In Architecture-Design Methods-Inca Structures: Festschrift for Jean-Pierre Protzen, edited by Johanna Delingher, Hans Delingher. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2009.
2009	“Forward.”
	In Globalization, Violence, and the Visual Culture of Cities, edited by Christoph Linder. London: Routledge, 2009.
2009	“Introduction.”
	In Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design, Kingston Heath, London: Elsevier Press, 2009.
2008	“From Modernity to Globalization: The Middle East in Context.”
	In Modernism and the Middle East: Politics of the Built Environment, edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
2008	“Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition: The New Challenges of Globalization.”
	In New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, and Janice Afflect, 155-169. London: Routledge, 2008.
2007	“Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Thoughts on Architecture in the Contemporary Moment of Globalization.”
	In The Domestic and the Foreign: Globalization in Architecture, edited by Sang Lee and Ruth Baumeister, 179-205. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2007.
2006	“Foreword.”
	In Vernacular Architecture in the Twenty-First Century: Theory, Education and Practice, edited by Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga, xvii-xviii. London: Taylor and Francis, 2006.
2006	“Whose Cairo?”
	In Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space, edited by Paul Amar and Diane Singerman, 539-543. Cairo: American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, 2006.
2005	“Ali Mubarak’s Cairo: Between the Testimony of ‘Alamuddinand the Imaginary of the Khitat.”
	In Making Cairo Medieval, edited by Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabat, 49-66. Lexington Press, 2005.
2004	“Manufacturing Urban Heritage, Consuming Cultural Tradition: Implications for a Global History in the Age of Tourism.”
	In New Global History and the City, edited by Elliot Morss, 99-115. Massachusetts: New Global History Press, 2004.
1996	“Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing World.”
	In Preparing for the Urban Future,edited by Michael Cohen et al., 108-122. Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center in association with Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
1994	“Bayn al-Qasriyn or the Street Between the Two Palaces.”
	In Streets : Critical Perspectives on Space, edited by Z. Celik, D. Favro, and R. Ingersol, 71-82. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENCYCLOPEDIA

2018	Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
	“Tradition and ‘Local/Global.’”
	Edited by P.Oliver, M.Vallinga, and D. Mandlin. London: Bloomsbury. (In press)
2015	Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
	“Authenticity and the Manufacture of Heritage.”
	With Sylvia Nam, edited by Claire Smith. Springer, New York, 2015.
2011	Cambridge World History of Religions
	“The Place of the Mosque in the Urban Context.”
	With Ipek Tureli, co-edited by Hasanuddin Khan. 2011.
2011	Encylopedia of Life Support Systems
	“Traditional Environments.”
	With Elena Tomlinson, Isle of Man, UK: Eolss Publishers Co, 2011.
2010	Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
	“Colonial City”
	With Mrinalini Rajagopalan. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2010.
2009	International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
	“Urban Geography: Islamic Urbanism.”
	With IpekTureli, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. Elsevier: Oxford, 2009.
2009	Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
	“Simulacra”
	With IpekTureli, edited by Rob Kitchin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009.
2008	Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
	“Dwelling and Settlements in Non-Western Cultures”
	Edited by SelinHelaine. Springer, New York, 2008.
2008	Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
	“Urban Planning”
	Edited by John Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
2004	The Encyclopedia Britannica
	“Cairo”
	Encyclopedia Britannica, 2007 Edition [original edition 2004].
1605	Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
	“Egypt, Rural” and “Cairo”
	Edited by Paul Oliver. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 1603-1605.
1995	Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
	“Urban Planning”
	Edited by John Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 288-290.
1989	Encyclopedia of Architecture
	“Mosques: The Religious Architecture of Islam”
	With Guita Boostani, edited by Joseph Wilkes. New York, London & Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, 1989, Vol. 8, pp. 460-476.

PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS

2014	“Virtual Uprisings: On the Interaction of New Social Media, Traditional Media Coverage and Urban Space during the ‘Arab Spring,’”
	with MunaGuvenc. Urban Studies 51: 3 (February 2014).
2013	“The Fundamentalist City, Medieval Modernity, and the Arab Spring,”
	Space and Polity Vol. 17, No. 3 (2013): 261-269.
201?	“The Virtual Square: Urban Space, Media, and the Egyptian Uprising,”
	Harvard International Review Vol. XXXIV No. 1, 58-63.
2012	“Religious Fundamentalisms in the City: Reflections on the Arab Spring,”
	(with MejganMassoumi) Journal of International Affairs, Columbia University Vol. 65, No. 2 (2012): 31-41.
2006	“Medieval Modernity: On Citizenship and Urbanism in a Global Era,”
	(with Ananya Roy) Space and Polity 10:1 (April 2006).
2005	“Citizenship in Contemporary Urbanism: A Medieval Modernity,”
	(with Ananya Roy) Applied Anthropologist 5:2(Fall 2005).
2001	“The Cinematic City: Between Modernist Utopia and Post-Modernist Dystopia,”
	Built EnvironmentVol. 26, No. 4, NezarAlSayyad, Guest Editor, Special Issue “Cinema and the City,”(2001): 268-261.
1999	“Virtual Cairo: A Historian’s View of Computer Simulation,”
	Leonardo Vol. 32, No.1 (1999): 93-100.
1998	“Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism,”
	Islamic Culture Vol. LXXII, No. 4 (1998): 1-22.
1998	“Planning Lessons of the American Dream: Historical Limitations and Democratizing Potential,”
	Prostor Vol. 6, No. ½, (1998): 1-11.
1998	“Architecture and the Lurking Potential,”
	ISLA: Philosophy and Social Science Report of Japan, Special Issue: Violence and Philosophical Design (Tokyo: 1998): 827-840.
1996	“The Study of Islamic Urbanism: An Historiographic Essay,” and “Arab Caliphs and Western Observers: Building Stories in Early Islam,”
	Built Environment Vol. 22, No. 2. NezarAlSayyad, Guest Editor, Special Issue “Islamic Architecture and Urbanism: Middle Eastern Perspectives,”(1996): 89-103.
1995	“From Vernacularism to Globalism: The Temporal Reality of Traditional Settlements,”
	Traditional Dwellings and Settlements ReviewVol. 7, No. 1, (1995): 13-24.
1993	“Culture and Squatting,”
	Open House International Vol. 18, No. 2 (1993): 37-47.
1993	“Squatting and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Informal Developments in Latin America and the Middle East,”
	Habitat International Vol. 17, No. 1 (1993): 33-44.
1993	“Informal Housing in a Comparative Perspective: Squatting and Culture,”
	Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies Vol. 5 (1993): 3-18.
1992	“Levels of Congruence: On Urban Space and the Institutional Structure of Different Societies”
	(with Kate Bristol). Journal of Architecture and Planning ResearchVol. 9, No. 3, (1992): 193-206.
1992	“Modeling Traditional Islamic Cities,”
	Mimar No. 43, (Summer 1992): 26-33.
1991	“Cross-Cultural Modes of Architectural Design,”
	American Institute of Architects Education Honors(1991): 65-72.
1991	“History as a Design Mode: The New Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
	(with Mark Mack). Journal of Architectural Education Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 47-55.
1988	“The Concept of Urban Renewal Comparative Notes”
	(with MirleRabinowitz). International Journal of Housing Science and Its Applications Vol. 12, No. 2 (1988): 83 100.
1987	“Space in an Islamic City: A Case Study,”
	Journal of Architecture and Planning Research Vol. 4 No. 12 (June 1987).
1984	“Core Housing in Egypt: Notes on the Application of a New Approach,”
	International Journal of Housing Science and Its Application Vol. 8, No. 4(1984): 141 155.
1982	“Some Patterns in Islamic Urban Design: The Role of Space, Past and Present,”
	The Muslim Scientist Vol. 2 No. 2(Summer 1982): 341 363.
1980	“The Visual Structure of an Islamic Path: An Analysis of Al Mu'izz Street,”
	Working Paper Series No. 1, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT (September 1980).
1980	“Government Policies,”
	Journal of the Egyptian Geographic Society Vol. 51 (May 1980): 75 117.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROCEEDINGS

2012	“Neither Homogeneity nor Heterogeneity: Modernism’s Struggles in the Muslim World,”
	in Homogenisation of Representations,edited byModjtabaSadria,Paris: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2012.
2009	“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, edited by Douglad Noble, PhDiA: Vol. 4, 63-69, 2009.
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, 18-27. Nottingham Trent University, 2009.
2006	“Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition: The New Challenges of Globalization,”
	in New Heritage: Beyond Verisimilitude, edited by Thomas Kvan and Yehuda Kalay, 212-227. The University of Hong Kong, 2006.
1996	“A Database Approach to Modeling Medieval Cities,”
	with Yehuda Kalay and Ame Elliot, in Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy, edited by P. McIntosh and F. Ozel, 110-120. ACADIA Conference Proceedings, 1996.
1995	“An al-TurathWa al-Haweya,”
	in ImaraTaqlidia, edited by M. Haramy and J. Alawi. Bahrain Mohandseen, 1995 (in Arabic). [“On Heritage and Identity,” in Traditional Architecture: Theory and Practice, Bahrain: Bahrain Society of Engineers, 1995], pp. 257-268.
1993	“Balance and Imbalance: The Islamic Middle Eastern City between Traditional and Modernity,”
	in Reading and Design of the Physical Environment, 26-29. Urbino, Italy: International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, 1993.
1992	“Teaching Climate-Energy Consciousness: A Collaborative Approach in the Architecture Design Studio,”
	(with Gail Brager). In National Solar Energy Conference Proceedings, 1992.
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.
1987	“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, edited by Joan Harvey and Don Henning, 141-152. EDRA Publications, 1987.
1986	“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, edited by Richard Barnes, Jean Wineman and Craig Zimring, 15-22. Omni Press: Madison, Wisconsin, 1986.
1985	“The Design and Planning of Housing: A Report on Conferences in Developing Countries,”
	in CongresoInternacional de la Vivienda: Nuevos Methods de Construccion y Financiamiento, edited by Oktay Ural, Raul Galindo, and Carlos Aguirre, Vol. 2, 450-460. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria: Vina del Mar, Chile, 1985.
1985	“Urban Space in the Muslim City”
	in Housing in the Islamic City, edited byAdbulbaki Ibrahim. Islamic Capitals Organization: Riyadh, 1985 (in Arabic).
1983	“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, edited by DetlefKammeier and Peter Swan, 499-510. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology Press, 1983.

REVIEWS OF NEZAR ALSAYYAD’S BOOKS AND RESEARCH

2012	David Simonowitz. Review of “The Fundamentalist City?”
	International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Vol. 1 Number 2, (2012): 385-404.
2012	Tom Verde. Review of “Cairo: Histories of a City,”
	The Historian,Vol. 74, Issue 3. (Fall 2012): 553-554.
2012	Nancy Reynolds. Review of “Cairo: Histories of a City,”
	International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 44, Issue 4. (Fall 2012): 835-836.
2011	Publishers Weekly. Review of “Cairo: Histories of a City,”
	March 2011.
2011	Joel Benin, “Cairo: Histories of a City,”
	San Francisco Chronicle, July 2011.
2011	John Flint. Review of “The Fundamentalist City?”
	Housing Studies,Vol. 26 Number 2 (2011) 297-305.
2011	Jay Freeman, “Cairo: Histories of a City,”
	The Chronicle of Higher Education,April 25 2011.
2010	Paula J. Massood. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real”
	and Cities and Cinema, Journal of the American Planning Association, 76: 1 (2010): 132 — 133.
2009	Les Roberts. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,”
	Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Volume 36, Issue 3(2009): 568-569.
2008	Jeffrey Balmer. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,”
	Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 61, Number 4 (May 2008): 136-137(2).
2008	Chris Bowman. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism — A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,”
	Visual Communication, Vol. 7 (Nov 2008): 509 - 510.
2007	Ralph Stern. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real,”
	Architectural Association (AA) Files, No. 56 (2007): 80-83.
2007	David Beer. Review of “Keeping it Reel?”
	A Review of Cinematic Urbanism, in The City, Vol. 11, No. 1 (April 2007): 126-128.
2007	James Donald. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern From Reel to Real,”
	International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 2007):268-270.
2007	Anthony Sutcliffe. Review of “Cinematic Urbanism,”
	Built Environment, Vol. 33, No. 2(2007): 250.
2006	Yasser Elsheshtawy. Review of “What the Nineteenth Century Did for Cairo: A Review of Making Cairo Medieval,”
	Built Environment, Vol. 32, No. 4(2006): 450-452.
2006	Christa Salamandra. Review of“Making Cairo Medieval,”
	International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Vol. XVI (2006): 45-46.
2006	Judith Kenny. Review of “Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia,”
	Urban Geography, 27:4 (June 2006): 391-392.
2006	Adam J. Berry, et. Al. Review of “Making Cairo Medieval,”
	Middle East Journal (2006): 512.
2005	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.
2005	Seif El Rashidi. Review of “Making Cairo Medieval,”
	H-Urban(July 2005).
2004	Nancy Gallagher. Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage”
	Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 38:1 (June 2004): 109-110.
2004	Yasser Elsheshtawy. Review of “One Stop on a Journey”
	Built Environment, 30:3 (2004): 259.
2004	Kay Adamson. Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 42 (March 2004): 208-209.
2003	Mike Crang. Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage”
	Planning Perspectives, Vol. 18, No.1 (January 2003): 105-106.
2003	Sophie Gilliat-Ray. Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	The American Journal of Islamic Societies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring 2003): 130-31
2003	Jorgen Nielsen. “ The End of the Line” Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	The Times Literary Supplement (September 2003): 10-12.
2003	Rose Aparicio. Review of“Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	The International Migration Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2003): 899-900.
2003	K. Adamson. Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	The Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2003).
2003	Ali Akhbar Mahdi. Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization,”
	Contemporary Sociology, 32:5 (September 2003): 628-630.
2003	Nadeen Thomas. Review of “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation,”
	The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (Spring 2003).
2002	LudmillaPavlova. Review of “Hybrid Urbanism,”
	Multicultural Review, 11:1 (March 2002): 91-92.
2002	Ali Modarres. Review of“Hybrid Urbanism,”
	Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 3(2002): 372-375.
200?	Michael Scantlebury. Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism,”
	Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, 575-76.
2002	Elizabeth Chacko, “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage,”
	in Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 16, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 543-544.
2002	James Connolly. Review of “Hybrid Urbanism,”
	Middle East Studies Association Bulletin-MESA, Vol. 36 (2002): 78-79.
2001	Paul Wilkinson. Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage,”
	Journal of Planning Education and Research,Vol. 21, No.2 (Winter 2001): 213-215.
200?	Robert Home. “The Image May Replace Reality?”Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage,”
	Built Environment, Vol. 26, No. 4.
2001	Miranda McMinn. Review of “Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage,”
	Environment and Planning A5 Vol. 33 (2001): 2083-2088.
2000	Caroline Williams. Review of “Virtual Cairo: A History,
	”Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 34 No.2 (Winter 2000): 300-301.
1998	B.J. Nontsk. Review of “Cairo: A City in Flux Through Time: The Work of NezarAlSayyad,”
	Rendering Real and Imagined Buildings, Glouchester: Rockport Publishers (1998): 50-53.
1997	Brenda Yeoh. Review of “Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise,”
	Journal of Historical Geography 23:2 (April 1997): 238.
1995	Michael Heffernan. Review of “Forms of Dominance”
	Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 13:2 (1995): 243-245.
1994	Jane Loeffler. Review of “Export Architecture”
	Progressive Architecture, No. 5 (1994): 115-128.
1994	Paul Cobb. Review of “Cities and Caliphs - On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism - AlSayyad, N.,”
	Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54:3 (July 1994) 224-226.
1994	Marilyn Tadros. Review of “Cities and Caliphs,”
	Egyptian Gazette(February 1994).
1994	Darrick Danta. Review of “Cities and Caliphs,”
	Journal of Historical Geography 21:2 (April 1994): 20-21.
1993	Setha M. Low. Review of “Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,”
	American Anthropological Association 20:2 (May 1993): 407-408.
1992	Alexander Melamid. Review of“
	Cities and Caliphs - On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism - AlSayyad, N.,”Geographical Review 82:4 (October 1992): 493-494.
1992	“L'Architetto e Il Computer”
	Costruire, No. 109 (June 1992): 197.
1992	Gerald Blake. Review of “Cities and Caliphs,”
	Middle East Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 329-330.
1991	Horst Reichert. Review of ”Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition,“
	Tribus, No. 40 (1991): 207-208.
1991	Richard Ingersol. Review of “The Third World is Dead, Long Live the Third World,”
	Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 44 No. 4 (Fall 1991).
1991	Roxana Waterson. Review of “Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,”
	Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26 No. 3 (September 1991).
1991	Antonius Robben. Review of“Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition,”
	Journal of Anthropological Research, Volume 46 No. 3(Fall 1991): 347-350.
1990	“Conference Considers Third World Buildings,”
	Progressive Architecture (December 1990).
1990	Alan Eyre. Review of “Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition, in Social and Economic Studies,”
	Vol. 39 (1990): 267-272.
1988	Anne Hublin. Compte Rendu: Habitats Traditionnels:
	Un Approach Comparative, Paris (May 1988).

REVIEWS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

2003	Zahid Sardar. “Aga-khan Award for Architecture Building Cultural Bridges,”
	San Francisco Chronicle(March 1, 2003).
2000	Annie Tennant. “Designing on Campus: Nezar AlSayyad and the New Center for Middle Eastern Studies,”
	CED News (Fall 2000): 18-14.
1988	“Architecture as Story-Telling: A Project by XXA, Nezar AlSayyad, Architect,”
	Al-Bena’a Al-Jadid (1998): 203, 37-39 (Arabic and English).
1988	“The Recent Work of XXA: An Interview with Nezar AlSayyad of the Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture,”
	Madina (1998): 3, 22-25.

REVIEW ARTICLES BY NEZAR ALSAYYAD

2013	Turkish translation of “Religious Fundamentalisms in the City: Reflections on the Arab Spring,”
	(with MejganMassoumi) Arkitera, Vol. 4.8 (Oct. 24, 2013).
2003	Review of “Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831,”
	by Thomas Phillip, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 27, No. 4 (2003): 977-79.
1998	Review of “Cities from the Arabian Desert,”
	by Andrea Pampanini, Middle East Journal (1998): 30:2.
1997	Review of “Urban Development in Saudi Arabia,”
	edited by S. Al-Hathloul,Environment and Planning A, Volume 29, No. 4(April 1997): 757-758.
1992	“Housing, Culture and Environment: A Review of Two Conferences,”
	Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 46, No. 1 (1992): 58-59.
1992	Review of “The Other Side of Paradise,”
	by Juan Campo, Middle East Journal, No. 2 (1992).
1991	Review of “History as Design,”
	Alam Al-Bena'a (December 1991) (in Arabic).
1991	Review of “The Architecture of Saddam,”
	Design Book Review, No. 22 (Fall 1991): 7-9.
1989	Review of “Crisis in the Built Environment”
	by Jamel Akbar, Middle East Journal, No. 4 (1989): 242-244.
1988	Review of “Arab Muslim Cities,”
	Design Book Review, No. 14 (Spring 1988).

PUBLICATIONS OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH IN TECHNICAL REPORTS

1981	“A Cultural Account: Users and Interior Finishing in Egypt.”
	In Systems for Housing Construction in Egypt, MIT Technology Adaptation Program Publications, 1981.
1980	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.
1979	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

1984	“Islamic Architecture.”
	Jebel Journal: UPM Community Magazine (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), February, 1984.
1979	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.
1977	“Contemporary Egyptian Architecture,”
	(in Arabic). InAlam Al Ben'a Magazine (Cairo, Egypt), December 1977.

RESEARCH BULLETINS AND PROJECT REPORTS

2008	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.
1996	Hadaik Towers
	report to the Engineering Development and Real Estate Company, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.
1995	Four Sails Resort, South Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
	report prepared for the Egyptian Company for Touristic Development, Cairo, Egypt, 1995.
1993	"Canavaccio: A Highway, a Railway, a Road and a River," and "Attachment/Detachment"
	InReading 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.
1990	The Alexandrina: A Competition Entry Report
	(with Mark Mack). Submitted to UNESCO/UIA, Paris, 1990.
1989	Environmental Design in Developing Countries
	A Proposal for an Area of Emphasis in Architecture. University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
1984	An Energy Efficient Atrium.
	A report prepared by Cromwell, Trumper, Parker, Levy, and Woodsmall, Architects, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1984.
1983	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.
1982	Lagoon Development: Ikoyi, Lagos.
	A report by Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, Troy, Michigan, 1982.
1980	Core Housing' Site and Service Projects for Low-Income Groups,
	coeditor and translator. A report by the Joint Research Team on Housing (MIT/CU), Technology Adaptation Program Publications, Cambridge, 1980.
1979	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.

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