Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat

Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Institute of the Alliance of Civilizations at Ibn Haldun University (IHU) in Istanbul, Turkey. She also teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at IHU. For nearly 30 years, she taught political theory at Cairo University. She was also an adjunct professor at the American University in Cairo (2006- 2013). She spent two years (2014-2015) at the Civil Society and Human Security Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting fellow before moving to Istanbul – where she is currently based – in 2016. Her academic writings and teaching cover a wide range of topics, including classic and modern Western political thought, Islamic political theory, women and politics, global civil society, urban politics, cities and citizenship, and Middle East politics. Besides her teaching and writing, she co-established a Diploma in Public Policy and Child Rights in 2010, a European Commission-funded project coordinated by four Arab and four European universities. For that effort, she was awarded the Prize for Outstanding Support of German-Egyptian Collaboration in Science and Innovation.

Since 2015, Dr. Raouf Ezzat has supervised and introduced the full translation of Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity series into Arabic. She also translated Ziauddin Sardar's book Mecca: The Sacred City into Arabic. Her latest work is a research paper on the "Project on the Future of Human Rights in the Arab world" titled, "The Human Rights Movement and the Islamist: The Paths of Convergence and Divergence" with the Arab Reform Initiative/Paris, and forthcoming chapter titled, "Re-imagining Egypt: The State of War" in a book titled, Contemporary Thought in the Middle East (Routledge 2021). Her current research focuses on the reconfigurations of space in Egyptian urban planning and urban politics, as well as the recent rise of Egyptian Ultranationalism.