Nezar AlSayyad

Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is currently the President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, and the editor of its scholarly journal Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). As a scholar, AlSayyad has authored and edited several books on housing, identity, tradition, urbanism, urban design, urban history, urban informality, tourism, and virtuality. He has also produced and directed two public television video documentaries.