miriam cooke and Nezar AlSayyad sit down to discuss cities and traditional environments. AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture and Planning, at the University of California at Berkeley. cooke is a Professor in the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University.

This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: https://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/.

Watch Nezar AlSayyad's keynote lecture, "Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square" from the Rethinking Global Cities Conference: http://youtu.be/VKrVHrNsEmU