Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. He is Faculty Director of the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies (CASES).
Whose Tradition?. Co-edited with Mark Gillem and David Moffat. Routledge: London, 2017.
Traditions: The Real, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment. Routledge: London, 2014.
Cairo: Histories of a City. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2011.
The Fundamentalist City? Co-edited with Mejgan Massoumi. Routledge: London, 2010.
Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern From Reel to Real. Routledge: London & New York, 2006.
Making Cairo Medieval. Co-edited with Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabbat. Lexington Books: Lanham & London, 2005.
Müslüman Avrupa ya da Avro-Islam. Co-edited with Manuel Castells. Istanbul: Everest, 2004 (In Turkish).
The End of Tradition? Editor. Routledge: London & New York, 2003.
Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. Co-edited with Ananya Roy. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2003.
Europa Musulmana O Euro-Islam. Barcelona: Alianza Editorial/Ensayo, 2003 (In Spanish).
Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam. Co-edited with Manuel Castells. Lexington Books: Lanham and London, 2002.
Consuming Tradition/Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in an Age of Tourism. Routledge: London, New York, 2001.
Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment. Greenwood/Praeger: New York and Westport, 2001.
Al Mudun fi Sadr al-Islam: The Early Cities of Islam. Beit Al-Quran: Bahrain, 1996 (in Arabic).
Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise. Editor. Avebury: London and Aldershot, 1992.
Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism. Greenwood Press: New York, Westport, and London, 1991.
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition. Co-edited with Jean-Paul Bourdier. University Press of America: New York, Lanham, and London, 1989.
The Design and Planning of Housing. Editor. UPM Press: Dhahran & Houston, 1984.
Streets of Islamic Cairo; A Configuration of Urban Themes and Patterns. Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AKP: Cambridge, 1981.
Works in progress
Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, publication scheduled for 2017.
Architecture's Poverty. Routledge: London, publication scheduled for 2017.
