Public Lectures and Meeting Presentations

Mar 2018	“Open Conversations with Nezar AlSayyad”
	Invited talk,
	at Dar Al-Labana Lecture Series, Cairo, Egypt.
Mar 2018	Symposium on Urban Governance
	“Opening Address on Urban Governance,”
	in a Comparative Perspective, King Salman Center for Local Governance, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Feb 2018	“Legitmating Heritage,” in Preserving Iraq’s Heritage
	Keynote address,
	in a Postwar Era Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Feb 2018	“On the Possibilities of Urban Citizenship”
	Paper Presentation,
	at the Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar, CRASSH Working Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Jan 2018	Architecture Curriculum Workshop,
	“Opening address”,
	Kuwait University, Kuwait.
Dec 2017	“Heritage and Architecture”
	Keynote address,
	in Balkan Patterns Conference, Balkan Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia
Dec 2017	“An Architecture Conversation,”
	Invited talk,
	Hindu School of Architecture, Sonipat, India
Dec 2017	“Urban History vs. History of Planning,” Short one week course
	Main Lecturer,
	at School of Architecture and Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India.
Oct 2017	“Tradition, Heritage and politics,”
	Invited Public Lecturer,
	at Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Jul 2017	“Architecture, Heritage and Tourism”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in Architecture and Tourism Conference, held at the Sorbonne, Paris, France.
May 2017	“Tourism and Fundamentalism”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in Tourism and Patrimony Conference, Universite Laval, Québec, Canada.
Apr 2017	“Arab Culture at the Cross-Road”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in First International Memaryat Conference, Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Apr 2017	“Architecture and Identity
	Invited Public Lecture,
	in the Age of Globalization” at Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, Catholic Unviersity of America, Washington, D.C.
Mar 2017	“Cairo: Consuming Tradition” atSustaining Heritage
	Invited keynote address,
	in the Digital Age Conference, Cairo, Egypt.
Feb 2017	at the Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar,
	Invited Discussant
	CRASSH Working Group,University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Nov 2016	“The Power of Place”
	Invited public lecture,
	in International Studies Institute Lecture Series, University of Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Nov 2016	“The State of Arab Urbanism”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in 5th International Architectural Conference of the Jordanian Engineers Association, Amman, Jordan.
Nov 2016	“Fundamentalism and the City”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in Symposium of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities, Berlin, Germany.
Oct 2016	“Inclusion and Exclusion in Arab Cities”
	Invited talk,
	in Pluralism and Community in the Middle East Symposium, Center for International Regional Studies, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar.
Apr 2016	“Architecture and Globalization
	Invited public lecture,
	in the Middle East” in at School of Architecture Lecture Series, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Apr 2016	“Heritage and the Problem of Tradition”
	Invited public lecture,
	at Institut du PatrimoineCulturel, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Feb 2016	“Is Urban Citizenship Possible?”
	Invited Speaker,
	at Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Seminar, CRASSH Working Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Jan 2016	“The Death and Life of the Fundamentalist City,”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in the International Conference Religious Pluralism and the City, Darmstadt, Germany.
Nov 2015	“Architecture and National Identity,”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	in Learning from Education City Conference, Doha, Qatar.
Oct 2015	“Globalization and Architecure,”
	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, Stockhom, Sweden.
Jun 2015	“Diversity and Change from the Vernacular to the Global,”
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	at Delivering Diversity for the 21stCentry Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Jun 2015	“Virtual Uprisings and the Architecture of Revolt,”
	Invited public lecture,
	Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Jun 2015	“From the Arab ‘Spring’ to the Arab ‘Winter’:
	Invited public lecture,
	Urban Uprisings and Social Media,” CAMEA Lecture Series, School of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Apr 2015	“Urban Uprisings and Virtual Media,”
	Invited public lecture,
	Columbia University Global Center, Amman, Jordan.
Mar 2015	“Globalization and the Architecture of the Middle East,”
	Invited public lecture,
	American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Feb-2015	From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street
	Invited Keynote Speaker,
	at Rethinking Global Cities Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Feb-2015	The Struggle for Citizenship
	Discussant,
	at Topographies of Citizenship John Harvard Symposium, CRASSH Working Group, Cambridge Univesrity, United Kingdom.
Dec-2014	Whose Tradition?
	Opening and closing remarks at
	the 14th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Tradtional 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,
	Syposium on the Future of Tahrir Square, Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
Mar-2011	Fundamentalism, Medievalism, and Urbanism
	Invited Speaker,
	Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Castle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Dec-2010	Utopia of Tradition
	Opening remarks at
	the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, Lebanon.
Oct-2010	Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition.
	Invited Speaker,
	Lecture Series at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Oct-2010	Cinematic Urbanism in the Middle East
	Session Chair,
	at the Second Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA).
Jul-2010	Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition
	Keynote Speaker,
	3rd international conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place, hosted by Arte-Polis 3 and the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia.
Jun-2010	The Fundamentalist City?
	Invited speaker,
	at the Megacities Workshop,, sponsored by the New Encyclopedia Project, University of California, Irvine.
Mar-2010	Ajman International Conference: Sustainable Development Reshaping Cities
	Invited Speaker and Session Chair,
	Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.
Nov-2009	Peer Review Colloquium
	Invited assessor at
	at Delft University, Netherlands.
Sep-2009	Identity, Culture, and Urbanism
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the conference Urban Identities, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jul-2009	Problematizing Urban Modernity
	Invited speaker,
	in the Concept of Urban Change Symposium, Les Treilles Foundation, France.
May-2009	New Research in the Field of Urban Studies
	Invited speaker, presentation on
	at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Feb-2009	Neither Homogeneity nor Heterogeneity: Modernity Struggles
	Invited speaker,
	at the Knowledge of Construction Workshop, for the Aga Khan Development Network Seminar in Vancouver, Canada.
Dec-2008	Interrogating Tradition
	Opening remarks at
	the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Oxford, England.
Oct-2008	Colonial Modernities Conference and Exhibit
	Invited keynote speaker,
	organized by the House of World Cultures Museum in Berlin, German
Mar-2008	Heritage and Tradition
	Invited speaker,
	Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, MN.
Jan-2008	The Modernity of Ethnicity and Race in the Cinematic City of the 1980s
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the conference Globalization, Violence, and Visual Cultures, University of London Institute, Paris, France.
Dec-2007	The End of Tradition in the Middle East Region
	Invited speaker,
	Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture & Design, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.
Oct-2007	Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition
	Invited speaker,
	Hearst Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.
May-2007	Spin and Journalism: An Uneasy Coexistence
	Invited plenary session moderator of
	at the Annual Conference of the International Press Institute, Istanbul Turkey.
Apr-2007	Empire and the Clash of Civilizations
	Invited plenary session organizer of
	at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Doha, Qatar.
Apr-2007	Open Session Track at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians
	Invited chair of the
	Pittsburgh, PA.
Mar-2007	Post-Tradition, Hyper-Traditions and the End of Tradition
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the Annual Conference of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage, Bruges, Belgium.
Dec-2006	Hyper-Traditions
	Opening remarks at
	the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Bangkok, Thailand.
Dec-2006	South of Doxiades: Other Ideas from Egypt
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the Space and Progress Conference, Athens, Greece.
Nov-2006	Urban Inclusion
	Invited speaker,
	at the Inclusive Cities Conference at the Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain.
Jun-2006	Inclusive Cities Working Group
	Invited participant at the
	Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
May-2006	Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition
	Invited speaker,
	at the California House, University of California Trust, London, U.K.
Apr-2006	Architects’ Architectural Histories
	Session chair and organizer of
	at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah Georgia.
Mar-2006	Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition
	Invited speaker,
	at the New Heritage Forum, University of Hong Kong.
Mar-2006	Berkeley Club of Hong Kong
	Invited guest speaker at the
	and co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects, Hong Kong.
Feb-2006	Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in the Changing World
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the First International Symposium on Environment Behavior: People in Place in People, University of Sydney, Australia.
Jan-2006	Shangri-La Unfolding: Place, Space, Decorative Art
	Invited speaker and discussant at the
	held at the Doris Duke Foundation in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sep-2005	Medieval Modernity/ Hybrid Urbanism
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the Santa Fe Conference of the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Jul-2005	Heritage, Tradition and Their Limits
	Invited keynote speaker,
	International Fellows Program, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
Apr-2005	Democracy and Global Islam Conference
	Opening remarks at the
	University of California, Berkeley.
Apr-2005	‘Double Readings’: Encounters between Islam and the West
	Session chair and organizer of
	at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, B.C.
Mar-2005	Virtual Cairo Reconsidered
	Invited speaker,
	Lecture Series at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mar-2005	Visualizing Cairo
	Invited speaker,
	Lecture Series at Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, NY.
Feb-2005	Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the 4th Annual Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, Savannah, GA.
Feb-2005	The End of Tradition and Medieval Modernity: At the Dawn of a Post Global Era
	Invited speaker,
	at the American University of Sharjah, UAE
Dec-2004	Post-Traditional Environments in a Post-Global World
	Opening remarks at
	The Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Dubai, UAE.
Nov-2004	Globalization, Urbanization, and Development Symposium
	Invited speaker at the
	organized by the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Oct-2004	Virtual Cairo
	Invited talk,
	at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley, CA.
Jul-2004	Identity and Cultural Domination
	Invited keynote address,
	at Barcelona Cultural Forum, Dialogue on Globalization and Diversity, Barcelona, Spain.
Jul-2004	Medieval Modernity
	Speaker,
	(with Ananya Roy) at the Annual Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS,) Barcelona, Spain.
Feb-2004	Outreach and Public Programs in a Polarized Context
	Keynote address,
	at the Fourth Annual Conference of National Resource Center Directors, United States Department of Education, Santa Fe, NM.
Apr-2003	Regional Implications of the War

	Address at the Chancellor's forum, Implications of the War in Iraq, organized by International Area Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Apr-2003	Consuming Tradition in an Area of Preservation

	Lecture Series at American University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Mar-2003	Manufacturing Heritage: Middle Eastern Perspectives
	Keynote address,
	at Local Sites of Global Practice: The Middle East, Yale University.
Dec-2002	Unbounding Tradition
	Opening remarks at
	The Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Hong Kong.
Apr-2001	Hybrid Urbanism: Middle Eastern Perspectives

	at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
Oct-2000	The End of Tradition
	Opening Remarks at
	the Seventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Trani, Italy
May-2000	Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus Interpretation
	Invited talk,
	at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Dec-1999	On the Manufacture of Heritage in the age of Tourism
	Invited keynote speaker,
	at the Heritage and Tourism Conference organized by the Government of Hong Kong.
Dec-1998	Manufacturing Heritage/ Consuming Tradition
	Opening Remarks at
	the Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Cairo, Egypt.
Mar-1998	Virtual Cairo: Telling History to a General Public
	Invited talk,
	at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Feb-1998	Virtual Cairo: Representation Versus Interpretation
	Invited talk,
	at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jan-1998	Virtual Cairo: The Making of a Multimedia Project
	Invited talk,
	at the Berkeley Multimedia Resource Center Annual Conference, University of California at Berkeley.
Nov-1997	Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History
	Public presentation,
	at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley.
Apr-1997	The Courtyard House Across Cultures Conference
	Closing remarks at
	held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Dec-1996	Identity, Tradition and Built Form
	Opening remarks at
	the Fifth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jul-1996	Housing and Globalization
	Invited talk,
	at Housing and Culture Conference held at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Jul-1996	Housing, Identity and Culture
	Invited talk,
	at HABITAT II: The City Summit, organized by the United Nations, Istanbul, Turkey.
May-1996	Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism
	Invited talk,
	at The America Institute for Maghribi Studies, Tangier, Morocco.
Apr-1996	The Temporal Reality of Traditional Habitats
	Invited paper,
	at the United Nations Development Programme Conference: The Next Millennium: Cities for People in a Globalizing World, Marmaris, Turkey.
Aug-1995	Some Thoughts on Housing Alternatives
	Invited lecture and Workshop,
	at the Ministry of Development, Bandan Sir Begawan, Brunei.
Jun-1995	Arab Architecture and the Issue of Identity
	Invited lecture,
	at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
May-1995	Third World Architecture and the Question of Housing
	Invited lecture
	at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Capetown and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Apr-1995	Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing World
	Invited lecture,
	at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, USA.
Feb-1995	The Early Cities of Islam

	Public Lecture Series of Beit Al-Quran in Manama, Bahrain.
Jan-1995	Traditional Architecture: The Myth and Reality
	Invited keynote address,
	at the Bahrain Society of Engineers Conference held in Manama, Bahrain.
Dec-1994	Traditional Settlements: From Colonialism to Globalization
	Keynote address,
	at Value in Tradition, the Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Tunis, Tunisia.
Nov-1994	Housing and the Nation-State: The Case of Tunisia
	Invited lecture,
	at the American Research Center in Tunis, Tunisia.
Nov-1994	Local Planning Practices in the United States
	Invited lecture,
	at Technological Institute of Art, Architecture, and Urbanism of Tunisia (ITAAUT), Tunis, Tunisia.
Sep-1994	The Traditional Architecture and Urbanism of the Islamic World
	Invited lecture,
	at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Nevada, USA.
May-1994	Computer Simulation: Medieval Islamic Cities

	at the Bologna Symposium on New Methods in Architectural Media, organized by the School of Architecture, Ferrara, Italy.
Apr-1994	At Home with Mother Earth: Akkiwan.

	Public Presentation of the video documentary co-written and co-produced by Nezar AlSayyad, College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA.
Apr-1993	Medieval Urbanism in Europe and the Middle East
	Invited lecture,
	at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dec-1992	Buildings and Projects
	Invited lecture,
	at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Oct-1992	Development vs. Tradition
	Opening remarks at
	the Third Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Paris, France.
Jul-1992	Balance and Imbalance
	Invited lecture,
	at the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Urbino, Italy.
Apr-1992	The Islamic City: On the Transfer of Ideas
	Invited lecture,
	at the San Francisco Planning Department, Lecture Series, San Francisco, California.
Apr-1992	The Genesis of Cairo and Its Development
	Keynote lecture,
	at the Egyptian American Organization Annual Event, Los Angeles, California.
Mar-1992	An Architect Between Two Worlds
	Invited lecture,
	at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mar-1992	Ph.D. Programs in Architecture and the Academic-Professional Linkage

	at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.
Nov-1991	Architectural Education and the Global Transformations
	Keynote lecture,
	at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Administrators Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jul-1991	Dwelling Form and Desert Culture
	Keynote lecture,
	at the Design for Desert Living Conference, organized by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
May-1991	Housing Policy and Housing Form
	Keynote Lecture,
	at the Housing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Conference organized by the School of Architecture of the University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
Apr-1991	Baghdad and Al-Qahirah: On the Genesis of Urban Form

	at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Oct-1990	A Course of Action
	Concluding remarks,
	at First World/Third World: Duality and Coincidence in Traditional Environments, the Second Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Nov-1989	Architectural Education and the First World/Third World Dilemma: A Symposium

	at Third International Forum on Built Form and Culture Research, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Oct-1989	The Early Towns of Arab Islam: Towards a History of Planning

	at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Apr-1989	Basra and Kouffa: Arab and Western Attitudes on Muslim Urban Form

	at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Nov-1988	The Arab Muslim Garrison Town

	at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jun-1988	Urban Open Space Between East and West
	Invited speaker,
	at the Public Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Apr-1988	The Study of Traditional Environments
	Opening remarks,
	at the International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Nov-1987	Towards a Cross Cultural Interpretation of City Form

	at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Los Angeles, California.
Nov-1987	On the Physical Form of the Pre Industrial Muslim City

	at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.
Oct-1987	The Concept of Urban Renewal: Comparative Notes

	at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Housing Science, Berlin, Germany.
Jun-1987	Interpreting the Form of Urban Space: Open Space and Urban Activity in a Cross Cultural Perspective

	at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 18 Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Jul-1986	Ethics and Housing Policy in the Third World
	Invited speaker,
	at EDGE: Ethics of Development in the Global Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Apr-1986	Notes on the Islamic City

	at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 17 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jul-1984	Urban Space in the Islamic City of Cairo

	at the Seminar on Housing in the Islamic City, Islamic Capitals Organization Conference, Ankara, Turkey.
Sep-1983	Preserving the Spaces of the Islamic City, A Case Study of Cairo

	at The International Symposium for the Conservation of the Old City of Aleppo, Syrian Architects Syndicate & the University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.
Dec-1982	Small Towns versus New Towns: An Assessment of National Development Policies in the Middle East

	at Small Town in National Development: Towards Rural Urban Integration in Developing Countries, International Symposium, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
Sep-1982	Some Patterns in Islamic Urban Design: The Role of Space, Past and Present

	at the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, Annual Conference on Science and Technology for Muslim World Development, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Apr-1981	Lessons from the Past: Facade Architecture of Medieval Cairo
	Invited paper,
	at the American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jan-1981	Some Visual Aspects of Streets in Medieval Cairo
	Invited paper,
	at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Mar-1979	Agricultural Development versus Urban Development

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

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