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5-7 mai 2013, Doha, Qatar.Yale Arab Alumni Association and the American University in Beirut (AUB) are pleased to invite you to :Navigating the Tides: Urban Transformations in the Arab WorldNavigating the Tides: Urban Transformations in the Arab World, the second Yale Arab Alumni Association (YAAA) conference.  This conference builds on “Transnational Tides and the Future of the Arab City,” YAAA's inaugural conference held at the American University of Beirut in 2009 which identified best practices and innovative strategies that Arab governments could adopt to improve urban welfare and build an integrated regional future.  Navigating the Tides aims to contribute to conversations already taking place in Doha and in the region more generally on urbanism and sustainability.  These conversations generally have been directed toward the more technical aspects of urban planning such as the development of transportation systems and public transport, the role of information and communications technology in managing cities, and the possibilities for increased energy efficiency or for a transition toward forms of renewable energy, among others.The conference’s guiding themes attempt to answer some of the most pressing questions facing Arab cities today: How has urban planning in the region accounted for cultural heritage?  What strategies can be adopted for managing the impact of rural migration to diverse Arab cities? How have governments responded to urban challenges and with what results? How have some cities in the region sought to reconfigure themselves as cultural and “knowledge hubs” in which education plays a central role in the development of the city itself?&#160;Reference to “Arab cities” is not meant to suggest that conditions in different Arab cities are similar.  Urban planners in Cairo and Doha, for instance, face very different challenges.  Nonetheless, communities, cities and states in the Arab World share traditions that emerge from closely related histories and experiences. One premise for the conference is that history and culture cannot be left out of discussions of urban planners, public servants, architects, entrepreneurs and public intellectuals engaged with matters relating to urbanism in the Arab World. Indeed, a core suggestion of Navigating the Tides is that effective responses to some of the most vexing challenges Arab cities face require a clear understanding of, and an occasional reckoning with, the past.Programme détaillé