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July 2005 Private City: Dubai and the Bazaar of Globalized Landscape
XXII World Congress of the International Union of Architects (UIA), Istanbul, Turkey.
June 4, 2005 Towards Achieving Sustainable Cities
Published in “Waste Paper”, the Voice of Emirates Environmental Group; Dubai, UAE.
June 2005 Dubai Metro Rail Project
Interview with BBC World’s TV program Middle East Business Report; Neil Heathcote, editor.
June 2005 Public Transport in 2020: From Vision to Action
Invited. Co-author with the rest of the Steering Committee of the “Strategic Vision for Public
Transport in 2020” an International Union of Public Transit (UITP) taskforce. Published by UITP.
June 2005 Cities of the Future: The Promising Role of Public Transport
Invited and fully sponsored. International Union of Public Transit (UITP) 56 th World Congress;
Rome, Italy. Accepoted for publication in the the Congress Proceedings (October 2005).
May 2005 The Death of Public Urban Space in Dubai?
Invited. The Fourth Contemporary Architecture, Art and Design Conference (CADD-4). American
University in Dubai; Dubai, UAE.
April 2005 Reclusive City: The Other Side of Dubai
Eighth Sharjah Urban Planning Symposium (SUPS-8); Sharjah, UAE
March 2005 Towards the ‘Abu Dhabi Manifesto on Cities and Urban Development’
Invited. First Abu Dhabi City Planning Conference; Abu Dhabi, UAE.
March 2005 Madinat Jumierah and the Urban Experience in Private City
Invited. Architecture and Real Estate Development in the UAE Conference. Ajman University of
Science and Technology; Dubai, UAE.
February 2005 Urban Governance in a Changing World
Invited. Part of the Special Panel on “Saudi Municipal Elections.” King Faisal University (in Arabic);
Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
January 2005 Challenges in Architectural Education: As Practice Persistently Transforms, How
Could Architectural Education Keep Pace?
Published (in Arabic) in Al-Benaa Magazine; Arriyadh, Saudi Arabia.
December 2004 Urban Public Space Under Post-Global Conditions
International Association for the Study of Traditional Settlements (IASTE) Conference. AUS;
Sharjah, UAE.
October 2004 Reinventing Dubai: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Global Epoch
Medina Forum, an Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Design (IURPD) lecture series.
School of Architecture + Design, AUS; Sharjah, UAE.
September 2004 In Pursuit of Excellence: Architecture and the Sustainability Challenge Exhibition
Curator of this SA+D exhibition of the winning entries of the SA+D sponsored international
architecture student competition, Architecture and the Sustainability Challenge, which I coordinated,
AUS; Sharjah, UAE.
July 2004 Understanding Dubai: Grand Plans for a Global City
Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Congress; Grenoble, France.
July 2004 Redevelopment of Banking Street in Sharjah
Published (in Arabic) in Sada Al-Mabani Journal; Dubai, UAE
April 2004 ’Make No Small Plans’: Dubai’s Transformations into a Global City
Seventh Sharjah Urban Planning Symposium (SUPS-7); Sharjah, UAE.
February 2004 Variations on a Theme Park: Is THAT What we Want UAE Cities to Be?”
Invited. Architecture, Technology, and Pedagogy Conference. Ajman University of Science and
Technology; Abu Dhabi, UAE.
October 2003 The Making of an Urban Vision: The Future of Gulf Cities, Today
Invited. Cityscape Conference; Dubai, UAE.
July 2003 Networked Cities and the Making of Social Identity
Joint Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of
European Schools of Planning (AESOP); Luven, Belgium.
July 2003 Isfahan Design Workshop
Led seven AUS graduate urban planning and (undergraduate) architecture students on a field trip
culminated in a design workshop/charette; Isfahan, Iran.
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