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Dr. Khaled Adham

Education | Academic Work Experience | Publications | Selected Project and Research Grants | Linguistic Competences

Education nach oben

1981-1986

Baccalaureate (BSc) in Architecture, Department of Architecture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

1990-1992

Master of Architecture (MA), Department of Architecture, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.

1993-1997

Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture (PhD), Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

Academic Work Experience nach oben

Since 1/10/2018

Research Fellow at Leibnitz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany

2011-2016

Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

2004-2010

Assistant Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

2000-2004

Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Suez Canal University, Port Said, Egypt    

1998-1999  

Post Doctoral Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany

1997-1998

Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture Ramadan Institute of Technology, Egypt

1996-1997

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA


Publications nach oben

Selected Articles in Journals

2017

“Kairo: Kopie Dubais oder Keynesianismus auf Droge,” Inamo 89, Jargang 23, Frühling 2017. (In German)

2013

“Finding Tahrir Square,” Portal 9, issue Vol. 1 no. 2. (May 2013)

2009

“Petro-Urbanism: The Geo-Politics of Urban Development in Doha, Qatar,” International Journal of Housing Science and Its Applications, vol. 33 no. 2.

2008

"Global Tourism, Hyper-Traditions, and the Fractal Condition of the Sign, Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, vol.xix no. 2, Spring.

2005

“Globalization, Neoliberalism, and New Spaces of Capital in Cairo,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, TDSR, vol. xvii no. 1, Fall.

Selected Book Chapters

2017

“Exporting Dubai to Cairo or Capitalism by Proxy?,” in L. Khirfan (ed.) Order and Disorder: Urban Governance and the Making of Middle Eastern Cities, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

2016

“Maqamat ‘Imraniya: Navigating the Virtual and Real Urban Cartographies of the Egyptian Revolution,” in D. Sharp & C. Panetta (eds.) Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprising, New York: UR Terreform.

2015

“Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo,” in U. Freitag, N. Fuccaro et. al. (eds.) Urban Violence in Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Oxford: Berghahn.

2014

“Modes of Urban Diffusion: Culture, Politics, and the Impact of Recent Urban Development in the Arabian Gulf Cities on Cairo’s Vision 2050,” in S. Wippel et. al. (ed.) Under Construction: Semiotics of Architecture and Infrastructure in the Arab Gulf Region, London: Ashgate.

2010

“Globalization, Neoliberalism, and New Spaces of Capital in Cairo,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, TDSR, vol. xvii no. 1, Fall.

2010

With Mostafa Fahmy, “Gulfanization of Egypt,” in Al Manakh II, (Vol. 23, AMO/Rem Koolhaas), sponsored by Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council.

2008

“Rediscovering the Island: From the Urbanity of Pearls to the Urbanity of the Spectacle,” in Y. Elsheshtawy (ed.) The Evolving Arab City. Routledge, London.

2004

“Cairo’s Urban Déjà vu: Globalization and Urban Fantasies,” in Y. El-Sheshtawi (ed.) The Urban Kaleidoscope: Transformations in the Middle Eastern Cities. London: Routledge.

Selected Publications in Conference Proceedings

2018

“Uneven Geographic Development and the Heterogeneous Political Economy of Cairo’s Production of Urban Spaces in the Post Arab Spring Era,” World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies WOCMES, Seville/Spain 16-22 July.

2016

“The Museumification of the City: Urban Regeneration or the Urbanity of Buffering Zones, the Case of the Open Air Museum in Luxor,” Inheriting the City: Advancing Understanding of Urban Heritage, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage/ University of Birmingham and National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan 31 March-4 April.

2014

“The Place of Tradition in the City,” IASTE Conference Working Papers Series—Whose Tradition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kula Lumpur 14-17 December.

2012

“Beyond the Modern Urban Center: Decoding Tahrir Square,” IASTE Conference Working Papers Series—The Myth of Tradition, Oregon University, Portland 3-7 November. (Paper won Jeffrey Cook Award)

2010

From Paris on the Nile to Dubai on the Nile: A Study on the Impact of Gulf States on Cairo’s Vision Plan 2050, IASTE Conference Working Papers Series—The Utopia of Traditions, American University of Beirut, 15-18 December.

2009

With Mohamed Abo Tera, Globalization, Cinema, and Urbanism: The Changing Face of the Coffeehouse in Post-Colonial Cairo, Egypt, Conference Proceedings—3rd International Conference on Built Environments in Developing Countries, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 2-3 December.

2008

The Theming of Arabia, IASTE Conference Working Papers Series—Interrogating Traditions, Oxford Brooks Uni, Oxford 12-15 December.

2008

Rediscovering the Island: Scenes from the New Spaces of Capital in Doha, Proceedings of Instant Cities, CSAAR, Sharjah, April 1-3.

2007

Urban Solipsism and the Architecture of Spectacles: Scenes from Dubai, in the Proceedings of XXXV World Congress in Housing Science, Melbourne, Australia, September 2007.

2007

The Touring Dome: From the Architecture of Necessity to the Architecture of the Spectacle, in Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel, Leeds Metropolitan University, July 2007.

2007

Form Follows Branding: The Experience Economy and the Urbanity of the Spectacle in the Arabian Gulf, in Sources of Architectural Forms, Kuwait University, March 2007.

Selected Keynote Presentations

October 2015

“The Impact of the Migration of Gulf Urban Models on Cairo’s Physical Development and Urbanization Process,” Presented at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales/ member Sorbonne-Paris-Cite Migrants in Global Metropolis October 16.

December 2012

“Urban Reflections on the Egyptian Revolution,” Presented at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

October 2012

“Notes On the Spatiality of the Egyptian Revolution,” Presented at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

March 2012

“The Gulf in Egypt: Exported, Emulated, or Capitalism by Proxy?” Presented in the book workshop The Middle East’s New Landscape: Inclusive Urban Planning or Democratic Deficit?,” Columbia University Middle East Research Center (CUMERC), Amman, Jordan.

December 2011

“Hope, Violence, and the Urban Spatial Dimension of the Egyptian Revolution,” Presented at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, ZMO, Berlin, Germany.

May 2011

“Revolution and Urban Fantasies,” Presented in City Debates 2011: Contemporary Urbanism in the Arab World, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

April 2011

“Urbanity and the Changing Face of the Reel Coffeehouse from Colonial to Neoliberal Cairo,” Presented at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, USA.

Selected Projects and Research Grants nach oben

2009-2010

“Exporting the Gulf: The Architectural and Urban Influences Between Egypt and the Gulf States 1974-2010,” UAE University (PI)

2007-2008

“Theming, the Experience Economy, and the Urbanity of the Spectacle: Scenes from Dubai,” UAE University (PI)

2002-2003

Urban Strategic plans for the Villages of Demisna, Basantway, and Bala’qtar in Al-Behira Governorate, Egypt, Urban Planning Association: Egyptian Ministry of Housing and New Communities. (Co-PI)

2003-2004

Urban Strategic plans for the Villages of Al-Ghonimiya, Kafr Al-Arab, and Al-Dahrah in Dumietta Governorate, Egypt, Urban Planning Association: Egyptian Ministry of Housing and New Communities. (Co-PI).

Linguistic Competences nach oben

Arabic (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (B2)