In 1988, Nezar AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, a scholarly association concerned with the study of indigenous vernacular and popular built environments around the world.
11 Facts About Nezar AlSayyad
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Nezar AlSayyad has produced and co-directed two public television video documentaries: Virtual Cairo and At Home with Mother Earth.
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Nezar AlSayyad's awards include the Beit Al-Quran Medal from Bahrain, the Pioneer American Society Book Award, and the American Institute of Architects Education Honors.
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Nezar AlSayyad maintains a small architecture and urban design practice XXA- The Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture which provides design and consulting work to various clients in the US and several developing countries.
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Nezar AlSayyad has been invited as a visiting professor and as a lecturer in more than 40 countries.
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Nezar AlSayyad is the president of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, and faculty director of the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies.
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Nezar AlSayyad is a member of the Urban Design Graduate Group and the Global Studies Graduate Group.
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Nezar AlSayyad was born in Cairo, Egypt, to a family of educators.
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Nezar AlSayyad's father was a well-known geographer, poet and an intellectual in Egypt.
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Nezar AlSayyad worked as a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the same college.
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Rather than serve the suspension, AlSayyad elected to retire, but has sued the university, claiming that Chancellor Carol T Christ overstepped her authority in determining his punishment.