| 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. |
| 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. |
