Heba Raouf Ezzat is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University (IHU), Istanbul. She also teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at IHU. She taught political theory at Cairo University for nearly 30 years. She also worked as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo (2006-2013). She was a visiting researcher at the Civil Society and Human Security Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE) for two years (2014-2015) before moving to Istanbul, where she is currently based, in 2016. Her scholarly writings and lectures cover a wide range of topics, including classical and modern Western political thought, Islamic political theory, women and politics, global civil society, urban politics, cities and citizenships, and Middle Eastern politics. In addition to his teaching and writing, he co-founded the Diploma in Public Policy and Children's Rights 2010, a project funded by the European Commission and coordinated between four Arab and four European universities. For this effort, he was awarded the Award for Outstanding Support for German-Egyptian Cooperation in Science and Innovation. Since 2015, Dr. Raouf Ezzat has supervised and promoted the full translation of Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity series into Arabic. He also translated Ziauddin Sardar's Mecca: The Holy City into Arabic. His most recent work includes a research article on the "Future of Human Rights in the Arab World Project" with the Arab Reform Initiative/Paris, entitled "The Human Rights Movement and the Islamists: Paths of Convergence and Divergence", and a forthcoming chapter in the book Contemporary Thought in the Middle East (Routledge 2021), entitled "Reimagining Egypt: A State of War". His current research focuses on the restructuring of space in Egyptian urban planning and urban politics and the recent rise of Ultra Nationalism in Egypt.