Category Archives: Academic Members

Dr Djamel Boussaa


Dr Djamel Boussaa is at present an assistant Professor at the university of Qatar. He worked at both universities of United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as a lecturer. He is originally from Algeria where he worked also as a teacher of architecture and a director of students affair at the department of Architecture, University of Blida.

He is interested in architectural and urban preservation in the Islamic world and has published several papers in this field.

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Dr Zeynep Aygen

Dr Zeynep Aygen is Turkish architect who graduated from Architect Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University  and Technical University of Istanbul. At prresent she is  Principle Lecturer at the School of Environmental Design and Management.   Her  Present position is Course Leader for  MSc in Historic Building Conservation and MSc in Heritage and Museum Studies.  University of Portsmouth, Portland  Building,  Portland Street,  Portsmouth PO1 3AH

Email:  zeynep.aygen@port.ac.uk 

Dr Saleh Al-Hathloul


Dr. Saleh Al- Hathloul is a Saudi Arabian educator and a critic in the field of Architecture and Urbanism with interests in the epistemology of knowledge, the general issues of structural changes in society, and futurist studies; has B.Arch from King Saud University 1972,  an MAUD from Harvard University, 1975 and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Environmental Studies from MIT, 1981. He was chairman of the Department of Architecture at King Saud University, Riyadh between 1981and 1984; chairman of the board of Al-UMRAN ( Saudi Society for Architects and Planners) since its inception in 1989 till 1993.

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