Nezar AlSayyad

Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. He was also the chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for two decades; currently the President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE); and the editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR).^[1]

Works

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

Works in progress

• Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, publication scheduled for 2016.
• Architecture's Poverty. Routledge: London, publication scheduled for 2017.

References

1. ↑ http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/alsayyad_nezar/alsayyad-cv.html