Amine Kasmi is a conservation architect and associate professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Tlemcen, Algeria. He teaches courses and conducts research in the history of urban design with a particular focus on the tensions between modern town planning and traditional urban fabric. His areas of interest also include the interaction between Islamic architecture and other architectures in the medieval Mediterranean world. He worked on numerous urban conservation sites in Algeria as well. 

He is a regular contributor to Archnet, most notably as the curator of the Archnet collection Moorish Monuments of Algeria: richness and diversity and the author of the Timeline introduction to the Zayyanid period.