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Omnia Khalil has a Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Anthropology program. Her research titled The Making of Counter-Insurgent Geographies in Post-revolutionary Cairo focuses on urban redevelopment and securitization of Bulaq Abule’lla where thousands of families were dispossessed in addition had different roles at the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Khalil has number of publications whether for the public at MadaMasr and Assfair Alarabi, and academic publication at different journals. Her research interests focus on violence, critical urban geography, political economy, securitization, and (counter)insurgency. Since 2008, Khalil focuses, as an urban researcher, on community participatory action planning and she has led many projects in Cairo, working with local communities.

Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center

M.A. American University in Cairo

B.Sc. Cairo University

Global Perspective, Global Social Theory, Introduction to Anthropology (4 subfields), Cross Cultural Perspectives, Geographies of Violence

Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of Middle East and North Africa, Cities, Counterinsurgency, Times of Ruptures, Securitization

Peer-Reviewed and Journal Articles

Book Chapters 

Urban (Counter) Revolution Against Gentrification: Shadow Security Networks, Baltagiyya Subjectivities, and Urban Densities, Amar, Paul, ed. in . The American University in Cairo Press, 2023.
Commodification of Violence, at Wikalet El-Balah. in (We Buy Everything: Housing and Urban Changes in Cairo) نشتري كل شيء: تحولات السكن والعمران في القاهرة. Editors, Shawkat Yahia and Shehab Ismail. Cairo: Al-Maraya. 2021

Public Writing 
Analytical articles on the Urban and the Built Environment issues in Egypt in Al-Manssa, Mada-Masr, Khatt30, and Assafir AlArabi.