Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, planner, urban historian and public intellectual. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Planning, at the University of California at Berkeley where he was Faculty Director of the Center for Arab Societies and Environments Studies and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for two decades.  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.

Dr. AlSayyad speaks to us about what he terms the 'fundamentalist city', the Nile River and the Renaissance Dam, the Euro-Muslim architecture, and building new cities. 

This episode is in English.