Heba Rauf Ezzat is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Alliance of Civilizations, 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) as a Visiting Fellow in the Civil Society and Human Security Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE) before moving to Istanbul in 2016 – where she is currently based. Her research covers 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 citizenship, and Middle Eastern politics. In addition to his teaching and writing, he co-founded a diploma for public policy and children's rights in 2010, a project funded by the European Commission and coordinated by four Arab and four European universities. For this effort, he was awarded the Prize for Outstanding Contribution to German-Egyptian Cooperation in Science and Innovation. Since 2015, Dr. Rauf Ezzat has been responsible for the complete translation of Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity series into Arabic. He also translated Ziauddin Sardar's book Mecca: The Sacred City into Arabic. His latest work is a research paper on “Projecting the Future of Human Rights in the Arab World” entitled, “The Human Rights Movement and the Islamists: Paths of Harmony and Deviance with the Arab Reform Initiative/Paris” and a forthcoming chapter titled, “Reimagining Egypt: A State of War,” in a book, Contemporary Thought in the Middle East (Routledge 2021). His current research focuses on the reconfiguration of space in Egyptian urban planning and urban politics and the recent rise of Egyptian ultranationalism.