| 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. |