Dr. Noura Wahby

Dr. Noura Wahby

American University in Cairo
Public Policy, Urban Studies, Infrastructure studies

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2024 – September 2027

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Noura Wahby is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, and Director of Middle East Studies Academic programs at The American University in Cairo. Currently she is a PI on a Bath University MENA Social Protection Network grant; and a Co-PI on an Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series grant. Prior to joining AUC, she was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge; and a research assistant at the Cambridge Centre of Smart Infrastructure looking at citizen engagement and digital technologies in the UK. Her doctoral research at Cambridge’s Centre of Development Studies focused on the political economy of urban development and waterscapes in Egypt; and won the 2019 Malcolm H. Kerr Best Dissertation Award in Social Sciences from the Middle East Studies Association (USA). Her research interests include the urban commons, governance, water, and political economy.

Selected Publications

Cawood, S.; Wahby N. and Ferrara, L.N. 2022. Hybridity in practice: Responding to water insecurity in São Paulo, Dhaka and Cairo. Water Alternatives 15(3): 688-708.
Apostolopoulou, E. & Bormpoudakis, D. & Chatzipavlidis, A. & Cortés Vázquez, J. & Florea, I. & Gearey, M. & Levy, J. & Loginova, J. & Ordner, J. & Partridge, T. & Pizarro, A. & Rhoades, H. & Symons, K. & Veríssimo, C. & Wahby, N., (2022) “Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons”, Journal of Political Ecology 29(1), p.144–188.
Wahby, N and Bou Akar, H (2022). “The Urban Middle East: A conversation on Beirut and Knowledge Production with Hiba Bou Akar”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Wahby, N (2021). Urban informality and the state: Repairing Cairo’s waters through Gehood Zateya. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(3), pp.696-717.
Wahby, N (2018). “Egyptian Environmentalism and Urban Grassroots Non-movements”, in Jose Vasquez and Elia Apostolopoulou (Eds.) The Right to Nature: Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures, Routledge-Earthscan, London, UK.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

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