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Yasser Elsheshtawy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAE University. Department of Architecture
sheshtawi@uaeu.ac.ae
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (Ed.)(forthcoming, 2008) The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, modernity & urban development. London: Routledge Introduction |
CHAPTER: Elsheshtawy, Y. ( 2008). "Cities of Sand and Fog: Abu Dhabi, The emergence of a global city." 
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (Ed.) (2004). Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a
Globalizing World. Routledge: London
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (2006). “Local Public as Polluting
Tourism: Social Control at Al’Rifa’i Mosque and Sultan Hassan
Square.” In P. Ammar & D. Singermann (eds.).
Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Space in the New
Middle East. Cairo, New York: AUC
Press
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| “From Dubai to Cairo: Competing Global Cities, Models, and Shifting Centers of Influence?” |
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (2007). “Creativity, Science and Architecture: The role of research in the design studio.” In A. Salama & N. Wilkinson (eds.) Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future. UK: Urban International Press
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (forthcoming, 2008). Dubai: An emerging urbanity? London: Routledge.
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (forthcoming, 2007). “The Global and the Everyday: Situating the Dubai Spectacle.” In A. Kanna (eds), The Superlative City Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press |
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| CONSULTATION | |||||||||
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United Nations Economic & Social Commission of Western Asia Report: "Globalization Effects on the Sustainability of the Arab City." Fall 2007 |
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SHIGERU BAN ARCHITECTS
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 Local Consultant for Sheikh Zayed National Museum Competition. Abu Dhabi. Project selected among 4 finalists. Summer 2007 |
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 European University Institute. Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies.Mediterranean Research Program. Workshop No.6: Mapping Transnational Networks in the Middle East:Local Logics and Global Processes (12 - 15 March 2008). Florence |
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Invited to participate in the Holcim Forum 2007: “urban_trans_formation” organized by the Holcim foundation for sustainable construction c/o Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). April 19-21, 2007, at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. |
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 Doha, Qatar
International Design Conference, Invited Speaker
March 2007
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 Elsheshtawy, Y. (2006). Transitory Sites: “Mapping Dubai's 'Forgotten' Urban Public Spaces.” IASTE 2006. Tenth IASTE conference: Hyper-traditions. Bangkok, Thailand Session Advisory Committee |
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Invited Speaker at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Workshop. “Dubai: Emerging Critical Themes in Urban Planning and
Design.” March 20, 2006
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (2006). “Marking an arrival (or departure): constructing the world’s tallest building in Dubai.” International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society “People in Place in People,” Sydney, Australia 9-11 February, 2006. | ||||||||
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Keynote Speaker at International Conference PLEA2005. Environmental Sustainability: The Challenge of Awareness in Developing Countries. Beirut, Lebanon 13-16/11, 2005. | ||||||||
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Elsheshtawy, Y. & Kenzari, B. (2003). The Ambiguous Veil: On Transparency, Mashrabiya’s & Architecture. Journal of Architectural Education. 56:4, 17-25.
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (2005). “The Mythical East: Architectural Metaphor’s in Tayeb Salehs’ Season of Migration to the North.” Built Environment. 31:1
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Elsheshtawy, Y. (2006). “Urban Spectacles:
Constructing the world’s tallest building in Dubai.” The
International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social
Sustainability, 2:1, pp.173-186
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