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Lonaard Magazine is a specialised peer-reviewed art and architecture periodical founded
in London by Dr Waleed Al Sayed and Dr Mashary Al Naim since 2008
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Dr. Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, planner, urban designer and urban historian. He is a Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Urban History at the University of California at Berkeley where he currently serves as Chair of the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Interim Director of International and Area Studies. AlSayyad holds a B.S. in Architectural Engineering and Diploma in Town Planning from Cairo University, an M.S. in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Architectural History from UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of many grants and awards for his research, books, films, and projects. In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). Today, he still serves as the Association’s President and Editor of its highly acclaimed peer-reviewed journal Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. Professionally, AlSayyad has an active practice in the Middle East and the US and is the Principal in XXA-Office of Xross-Cultural Architecture, an Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning firm with several award-winning credits. AlSayyad is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of many books, including Streets of Islamic Cairo (1981); The Design and Planning of Housing (1984); Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition (1989); Cities and Caliphs (1991); Forms and Dominance (1992); Al Mudun Fi Sadr Al-Islam (In Arabic) (1996); Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage (2001); Hybrid Urbanism (2001); Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam Translated to Arabic, Spanish, and Turkish (2002); The End of Tradition (2004); Making Cairo Medieval (2005); Cinematic Urbanism (2006); and The Fundamentalist City? Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space (2010). Additionally, he has written, co-produced and co-directed two NEA - funded public television programs, “Virtual Cairo” and “At Home with Mother Earth.” |
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