| 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. |