About Yasser Elsheshtawy

Yasser Elsheshtawy is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). He is considered a leading expert on Middle East Urbanism. His books include the forthcoming Arab Modernism(s): Cities, History and Culture. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.