International Activities and Service
Professor Salama contributed to a number of professional and academic activities including jury membership, service to journal and scientific committees, editorial roles, and invited talks and lectures.
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Service to International Academic Journals
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2009 to Present: Editorial Board Member, Asian Journal of Environment Behavior Studies, cEBs-Center for Environment Behavior Studies, FSPU, UiTM, Malaysia.
2008 to Present: Collaborating Editor, Open House International, Urban International Press, United Kingdom Indexed by EBSCO Publishing , the ELSEVIER Bibliographic Database Scopus and all products of THOMSON ISI index bases.
2008 to Present: Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Environmental Research and Public Health, IJERPH, Basel, Switzerland.
2007 to Present: Editorial Board Member, TBA-Time Based Architecture International, (Architectural Magazine), Urban International Press, Delft School of Architecture, and Danish Academic of Arts, UK, The Netherlands, and Denmark.
2006 to Present: Chief Editor, Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research, Archnet @ MIT School of Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
2006-2009: Guest Editor, Three Special Issues of Open House International – OHI: Volume 31, Issue 3-September 2006:OHI Special Issue on Design Studio Teaching Practices.Volume 32, Issue 4-December 2007: OHI Special Issue on Eco-friendly Facilities for Tourism. Volume 34, Issue 1-March 2009: OHI Special Issue on Sustainable Learning Environments.
2008 to Present: Collaborating Editor, Open House International, Urban International Press, United Kingdom Indexed by EBSCO Publishing , the ELSEVIER Bibliographic Database Scopus and all products of THOMSON ISI index bases.
2008 to Present: Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Environmental Research and Public Health, IJERPH, Basel, Switzerland.
2007 to Present: Editorial Board Member, TBA-Time Based Architecture International, (Architectural Magazine), Urban International Press, Delft School of Architecture, and Danish Academic of Arts, UK, The Netherlands, and Denmark.
2006 to Present: Chief Editor, Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research, Archnet @ MIT School of Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
2006-2009: Guest Editor, Three Special Issues of Open House International – OHI: Volume 31, Issue 3-September 2006:OHI Special Issue on Design Studio Teaching Practices.Volume 32, Issue 4-December 2007: OHI Special Issue on Eco-friendly Facilities for Tourism. Volume 34, Issue 1-March 2009: OHI Special Issue on Sustainable Learning Environments.
Currently working on a special issue on Affordable Housing (Volume 36, No. 3) with Urmi Sengupta of Queen’s University Belfast and a special issue on Urban Diversity (Volume 37, No. 2) with Alain Thierstein of Munich University of Technology.
Frequently, Dr. Salama serves as a reviewer for several international journals including Journal of Design Research, Journal for Education in the Built Environment-JEBE, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture-METU, and Global Built Environment Review-GBER.
Frequently, Dr. Salama serves as a reviewer for several international journals including Journal of Design Research, Journal for Education in the Built Environment-JEBE, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture-METU, and Global Built Environment Review-GBER.
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Service to Scientific Committees of International Conferences - Last five years
2011: Member; International Review Board. International Conference of Architectural Humanities Research Association—Peripheries 2011, Belfast, United Kingdom.
2008-2009: Member, International Scientific Committee, Revitalizing Built Environments: Re-Qualifying Old Environments for New Uses, International Symposium- IAPS Culture and Space and Housing Networks and Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2007-2008: Member, International Scientific Interdisciplinary Committee: Conference of IAPS on Cities, Biodiversity and Well Being, International Association for People Environments Studies, and the University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
2006-2007: Member, International Scientific Committee, Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and Projects. College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA: United States.
2006: Member, International Scientific Committee, IAPS-19, Conference of the International Association for People-Environments Studies: Environment, Health, and Sustainable Development, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.
2006: Member, International Scientific Committee, GBEN 2006: Global Built Environment: Towards an Integrated Approach for Sustainability. UCLAN-University of Central Lancashire and ICEDES-International Center for Development and Environmental Studies. Preston, United Kingdom.
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Service to Advisory Committees, Architectural and Urban Juries, and On-Site Technical Reviewing
2010: International Jury Member, NIASA-National Institute for Advanced Studies in Architecture, the Council of Architecture’s Awards for Excellence in Architectural Thesis, Pune, India.
2008-2009: Jury Member, International Competition for Students: Revitalizing and Development of Transit Areas International Association for Humane Habitat and Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai- India.
2006-2007: Jury Member, Architecture Plus Awards 2nd Cycle, Architecture of the New World, Dubai, UAE, Emirates.
2006: Jury Member, International Competition for Students: Sustainable and Humane Workplaces. International Association for Humane Habitat and Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai- India.
2005: Jury Member, International Competition for Faculty Members: Alternative Educational Ways for Teaching and Learning Architectural Design. Open House International-OHI, UK and Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus.
2005: Jury Member, International Competition for Students: Enlightening Learning Environments. International Association for Humane Habitat and Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai- India.
2002-2002: Advisor, California Schools: Post Occupancy Evaluation Tool Kit. A project carried out by the Center of Sustainable Facilities and Infrastructure, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States.
2002-2002: International Jury Member, Represented the International Union of Architects-UIA in the International Competition for Planning and Designing a Central Urban Park in the City of La Paz, Bolivia.
2000-2000: Reviewer and Critic, Canton of Sarajevo, Institute for Planning. United Nations International Urban Planning Competition and the International Program of the Revitalization of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2000-2001: Member, Committee of Architecture, Supreme Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
1998-2001: Technical Reviewer, the 8th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Work involved evaluation of two low income housing projects in Algeria designed by Al Meniawy Brothers, and the Islamic Cultural Center of Rome, Italy, designed by Paolo Portegesi and others, Geneva, Switzerland.
1995-2000: International UIA Expert: (Representing the International Union of Architects- UIA). The International UIA - UNESCO Committee for Developing the Charter of Architectural Education. The International Union of Architects-UIA and UNESCO, Paris, France.
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Invited Guest Speaker
2011: Invited Speaker: Between Global Flows and Local Voices: Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula International Workshop on Culture, Sustainability, and the Built Environment, organized jointly by the Department of Architecture Kuwait University and Edge Hill University, Preston. Kuwait.
2011: Invited Key Speaker, Colloquium-Live Projects in Architectural Education, Live Projects 2011, SPACE—School of Planning, Architecture, and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Center for Education in the Built Environment, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
2010: Speaker, Sustainable Design Processes: Integration from Inception to Assessment. MEED Conference on Building Sustainable Communities in Qatar, Doha, State of Qatar.
2009: Keynote Speaker, Knowledge and Design for Responsive Pedagogy and Practice. First National Conference on Environment Behavior Studies. Faculty of Architecture, Planning, and Surveying. University Technology Malaysia-MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia.
2009: Speaker, The Future of Sustainable Learning Environments, Lincoln School of Architecture, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.
2007: Speaker, Research Based Architectural Design Pedagogy: Consumption vs. Production of Knowledge, Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
2007: Speaker, Plurality of Architectural Trends in the Middle East, the Paradox of Identity, Tradition, and Modernity, Medina Forum, the American University of Sharjah, UAE - United Arab Emirates.
2006: Speaker, Workshop on Architectural Education in Developing Countries, Aga Khan Trust for Culture - AKTC, Education and Culture Program, Geneva, Switzerland.
2006: Invited Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Napoli. Seminar on Architecture as Language of Peace, as part of a short course on Mediterranean Architecture. Napoli, Italy.
2006: Keynote Speaker, International Association for Humane Habitat-IAHH.: Patterns of Change in Work Environments. IAHH and Rizvi College of Architecture. Mumbai, India.
2005 : Keynote Speaker, International Association for Humane Habitat-IAHH. An Alternative for Creating Humane Environments. IAHH and Rizvi College of Architecture. Mumbai, India.
2002: Speaker, The Bolivian Cultural Center and the Mayor of the City of La Paz. Issues on Architecture and Urbanism in the Developing World: Globalization, Tradition, and Identity. La Paz, Bolivia.
2001: Keynote Speaker, SAIE International Conference and Exhibition on Sustainability in the Mediterranean. Efforts on Sustainable Development in Egypt. Bologna, Italy.
2001: Speaker, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture - AKTC and Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology. A New Paradigm for Design Studio Teaching Practices. Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland.
2001: Plenary Speaker, The 32nd. Annual Conference of EDRA-Environmental Design Research Association, Old World-New Ideas, The Design Studio Under the Microscope, Robert Gordon University and University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2001: Speaker, Faculty of Architecture, University of Napoli. Change and Development in Egyptian Traditional Houses. Napoli, Italy.
2000: Speaker, Ecolodge Forum, Hagler Bailly Services and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. Ecolodges: A Futuristic Epic for Ecotourism Development in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt.
1999: Speaker, American University of Beirut (AUB), and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Contemporary Architecture of Egypt: Reflections on Architecture and Urbanism of the Nineties. Beirut, Lebanon.
1999: Speaker, Czech Chamber of Architects. Post Occupancy Evaluation and Sustainability. Prague, Czech Republic.
1999: Speaker, Lleida City Council. Urban Development of Intermediate Cities. Presentation on the City of Damietta. Lleida, Spain.
1998: Speaker, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture- AKTC and Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology. Socio-behavioral Studies in Middle Eastern Schools of Architecture. Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland.