Title Political Economist

Bio

Ingy Higazy is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and the Research Manager for Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism: Voices from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), based at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she specialized in political economy, political theory, and urban geography. Driven by a deep interest in the complex dynamics of space, power, and mobility, Higazy’s research explores how and why the spaces and infrastructures that facilitate movement for certain people and goods, systematically preclude it for others. Her academic writing has been published by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Politics, The Metropole, and Égypte/Monde Arabe, among others.