Yasser Elsheshtawy

Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York and Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, DC. He is author of Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia and Dubai : Behind an Urban Spectacle and editor of Planning Middle Eastern Cities and The Evolving Arab City , all also published in the Planning, History and Environment series.

Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York and Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, DC. He is author of Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia and Dubai : Behind an Urban Spectacle and editor of Planning Middle Eastern Cities and The Evolving Arab City , all also published in the Planning, History and Environment series. See less