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Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer for the MSc. Planning & Urban Leadership Course.
Responsible for structuring and delivering a distance learning MSc tailored to planners and urban practitioners. The programme integrates planning, environment, and architecture, balancing theory and practice through Urban Planning, Urban Leadership, Major Projects Studio, Professional Development & Practice, and Dissertation modules, with a strong emphasis on leadership, policy, and applied urban change.2
UBJMSV-30 – Future Places, a Design Studio.
The module examines the purpose of planning, institutional frameworks, and national policy contexts, emphasising sustainable development and climate action. Students explore planning across governance scales, from international to neighbourhood levels, then apply principles through a project addressing change within an existing urban area experiencing significant social, environmental, and economic transformation.3
UBLL58-15 – Context of Architecture: Cities and Societies.
This module explores architecture within its social and historical contexts, using the city as a living classroom. Through guided urban walks across public spaces in Bristol, students analyse buildings, streets, and cultures, linking global movements to local conditions while developing observational, analytical, and visual skills through on-site engagement and reflection.4
UBGMVU-30-3 – Integrated Tourism and Sustainable Development, a Graduate Seminar.
This graduate seminar examines tourism within international development, addressing globalisation, inequality, human rights, and justice. It explores sustainability strategies, stakeholder and NGO involvement, and community-based approaches, alongside environmental change, resource management, conservation, and governance of fragile ecosystems, including policy, carrying capacity, indicators, and wildlife tourism impacts, costs, benefits, and trade-offs.5
MSc and PhD Dissertations.
I supervise MSc and PhD dissertations, mentoring students through research design, fieldwork, and writing. My supervision focuses on public space, tactical urbanism, blue-green infrastructure, and tourism development, supporting critical inquiry, applied methodologies, and interdisciplinary approaches that connect theory with practice and policy-relevant outcomes across diverse urban, environmental, and socio-economic contexts.6
UBGMM9-30 – Leading Major Projects, a graduate studio.
This module immerses students in a real project site, developing insight into how planners lead urban change. Through engagement with planning, design, and delivery processes, students examine governance, stakeholders, risk, and decision-making, building skills required to manage, coordinate, and communicate complex major projects within dynamic political, social, and economic contexts.1
Course Leader of the Master of Landscape Architecture.
As Course Leader for the Master of Landscape Architecture, I led the development of the programme, including writing core and elective modules, steering the internal university approval process, and passing the accreditation process in the Landscape Institute.2
TMA1160 – MArch Dissertation (RIBA II).
This module supports independent architectural research through the production of a 10,000-word illustrated dissertation. Teaching is delivered through lectures, seminars, and blended learning. Students undertake archival, site-based, and theoretical research, supported by structured tutorials and formative feedback, culminating in a rigorously structured written and visual academic submission.3
TMA1195 – Integrated Urban Design and Architecture.
This design studio focuses on the analysis of an existing urban context and the development of proposals for regeneration or future growth. Students undertake detailed urban surveys and strategic analysis, translating findings into integrated urban or architectural design projects that address spatial, social, and environmental relationships across multiple scales.4
TIA1840 – Design Studio 3: Place and Architecture.
This second-year design studio explores the relationship between place, theory, and architectural practice. The studio theme focuses on eco-hostel design, encouraging the integration of environmental technologies, material strategies, and contextual narratives. Students develop increasingly sophisticated design proposals through iterative experimentation, critical reflection, and holistic design resolution.5
THA1121 – History and Theory 3: Architectural Dissertation (RIBA I).
This module explores architecture’s cultural and theoretical contexts through an architectural dissertation. Students define a research topic aligned with their design interests and develop appropriate research methods. The module emphasises critical analysis, interpretation, and evaluation, presented through structured written and visual outputs that situate architectural thinking within broader disciplinary discourse.1
Advanced Landscape Seminar (LAR750), an advanced graduate seminar.
Through a combination of lectures, discussions, debates, and review of recent events, the seminar explored landscape theory, history and different forces that shape the built and ecological landscape. The class stretches to provide an opportunity for students t understand theories and practices that shape the public space and the national parks.2
Masters Proposal Writing (LA896), a preparatory class for the final year master’s report.
This class focuses on the exploration of procedures of planning, design, scheduling, organization, and management of a landscape architecture research project. It also guide students to commit to the major research principles and the university procedures and bylaws.3
Advanced Landscape Design Studio (LAR648/LAR705), an advanced graduate studio.
Landscape Studio titled: Public Space Design: Integrated Solutions with Nature & People in Mind. A studio that work on the landscape planning level to design a water-front trail, that is part of a true RFP open by the Government in Cairo. The students then focus on developing two detailed designs: (a) one for a public plaza in the neighbourhood and (b) one for a specific segment of the Nile trail.1
Graduate Master Thesis Class (LA206)
Mentoring students’ projects and guiding their work to improve their hypothesis, research questions and methods in order to have a successful research that has a contribution to the field. Students select to do academic thesis or professional report responding to chosen client. This class guide the students through the process and advise them in addition to their committee members.2
Researcher/Project Analyst
Housed in Dep. Landscape Arch. & Env. Planning but working across departments to explore the vulnerability of urbanization, transport infrastructure in the light of catastrophic climate change. With specific focus on sea level rise, inland flooding and recent fires in California. My research focus on stakeholder mapping and analysis in order to incorporate their input on the climate modelling and suggest strategies for future mitigation and adaptation.3
Ecological Factors in Urban Landscape Design (LA201), an advanced graduate studio.
Through lectures, studio problems, research projects, and discussion, this course will explore the challenge and potential incorporating ecological factors in urban contexts. The course focuses on the interaction of landscape science (hydrology, geology, etc.) with the necessities and mechanisms of the human environment (urban design, transportation, economics, etc.). Lectures and research projects will particularly emphasize innovative and forward thinking solutions to the ecological problems of the human environment.4
The Process of Environmental Planning (LA237), advanced graduate seminar.
Environmental planning intersects with many other disciplines and incorporates a very wide array of sub disciplines. Ranging from city planning, land use planning, landscape architecture, forest management, wastewater management, wilderness preservation, urban sustainability and many more. Since there is no single course that can cover all environmental planning issues, this course draws from theory, history, ecological process, policy and real-life projects to construct a critical analysis of the role of environmental planning, its influences and potential impacts. The course will address issues such as environmental justice, urban landscape, global environmental challenges, sustainability of mega projects, threats to environmental resources and contemporary environmental policies. The course complements other planning and landscape classes across the college.5
Design Activism (ED4 A), gateway lower division course.
This course explores relationships between design and activism, raising critical questions about what design is and how designers serve as guardians of culture and agents of change. The course surveys the ways in which activism has historically played a role in design practice at the scales of products, architecture, landscape, and cities. Through lectures, readings, and exercises, students will be exposed to a broad spectrum of design interventions that have attempted to instigate change (design activism) and the ways in which design has been wielded as a transformative tool (activist design) in the realms of public space, technology, aesthetics, materials, and ecology.6
Environmental Planning Studio (LA205), an advanced graduate studio.
Through lectures, seminars, academic papers, professional reports, guest speakers and field work, students get to explore the areas of urban vulnerability to climate change and they learn to develop design and planning strategies to mitigate and adapt for future urbanization. The class has 3 modules with case studies in California, China and Chilli.1
Global Environmental Crises GEOG776
A seminar focusing on global issues and encouraging students to think across scales. Discussing the evolution of environmentalism to the recent contemporary challenges. The class discusses scholarly work as well as professional reports that focuses on global issues such as climate change, deforestation, urbanization, and the role of international organization in addressing the global environmental challenges.2
Environmental Studies ENV300
Part time lecturer delivering classes for students and professionals connecting academia with practice and bringing real-life experience to the classroom. Backed up with scholarly work and different documentaries, students are able to unpack and critique complex urban and environmental phenomena and learn the root cause of urban and environmental challenges.1
Spring 2016 Instructor
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Colloquium: Landscape Planning & Design, From Theory to Practice (LA253), UC Berkeley. This class is based on bring in real landscape projects to the class and allow students to engage in a dialogue with designers and provide critique for the work presented based on their theoretical and research.2
Fall 2015 Graduate Student Instructor
American Designed Landscape Since 1850 (LA171), UC Berkeley. This course surveys the history of American landscape architecture since 1850 in four realms: 1) urban open spaces that is squares, plazas, parks, and recreation systems; 2) urban and suburban design; 3) regional and environmental planning; 4) gardens. It reviews the cultural and social contexts which have shaped and informed landscape architecture in the US since the advent of the public parks movement and informs students about the process of urbanization through time.3
Fall 2015 Graduate Student Instructor
Restoration of Rivers and Streams (LA227), UC Berkeley. This course reviews the underlying goals and assumptions of river and stream restoration projects, reviews techniques employed in these efforts, and emphasizes strategies for evaluation of project success. Format: lectures by instructor, guest lectures, presentation of student independent projects, and field trips. This class help students understand the social components, land use and governmental aspects of rehabilitation projects.4
Summer 2015 Teaching Assistant
River Restoration Short Course at Sagehen Field Station, UC-Berkeley. This class focuses on stream restoration in both ecologically sensitive areas and urban environments. It was conducted in Sagehen research field station for students from the professional practice in environmental practices, landscape, engineering and policy making agencies.5
Spring 2015 Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC-Berkeley. This is an appointment to assist the Chair in the management of the department academic events and outside communication with professional bodies and alumni.6
Fall 2014 Instructor
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Colloquium: Sustainability of the Global South (LA 253), UC Berkeley. This class focuses on common sustainability challenges in the Global South and what could be common solutions.7
Spring 2013 Graduate Student Instructor
Future Ecologies (LA39) now renamed to: (ED4C), UC Berkeley. This course is intended to provide students with an overview of current thinking about cities and their components (buildings, parks, streets) as ecological and cultural systems.8