Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Institute for Middle East Studies
1957 E Street NW
Suite 512
Washington
DC
20052
United States
ABOUT
Mona Atia is Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University. She is a critical development geographer whose areas of expertise include Islamic charity and finance, philanthropy and humanitarianism, housing/urban development, the production of poverty knowledge and the spatial politics of marginalization. She is author of Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Her work has also appeared in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social and Cultural Geography, the Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Middle East Report. She currently holds an NSF CAREER award for a project that examines the production, use and impact of poverty mapping in Morocco, France and Egypt. She is also engaged in a collaborative project with Said Samlali examining slum-dweller responses to the Moroccan “City Without Slums” Program, a project supported by the Arab Council of Social Sciences.
Discipline
Geography
Sub Areas
Development
Urban Studies
Ethnography
Political Economy
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Islamic World
Arab States
Morocco
Specialties
Philanthropy
Poverty
Slums
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Geography
| University of Washington
MSci
| 2002
| Cities, Space and Society
| London School of Economics
BS
| 2001
| Business Administration
| UC Berkeley
Abstracts
Privatizing Charity: Islamic Approaches to Development in Cairo
Islamic Economic Practices and the Project of Development
Governing Poverty: Moroccan poverty mapping in the margins
Relational Geographies of Poverty across the Mediterranean
