RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED
Khalil, Heba M. 2026. “Advocates against Rights: The Legal Mobilization against Sexual Rights in North Africa.” Law and Society Review.
What tactics are used to mobilize the law against rights and equality? This investigation is part of the "Right-Against-Rights" scholarship
Khalil, Heba M. 2024. “‘This Country Has Laws’: Legalism as a Tool of Entrenching Autocracy in Egypt.” American Behavioral Scientist.
How can legal reforms and institutions, often seen as symbols of progress, be weaponized to crush popular movements and legitimize authoritarian rule?
Khalil, Heba M. 2023. “Lawyers as Infrastructures: Mediations, Blockages, and New Possibilities in Grassroots Movements.” Journal of Law and Society 50 (2): 231–50.
How do precarious community lawyers function as social infrastructures within grassroots justice movements, as seen in the anti-eviction mobilization on Egypt’s Al-Warraq Island?
Khalil, Heba M. 2021. “Revolution in Parallel Times: An Egyptian Village’s Lived Revolution.” LSE Research Series 46.
How do marginalized rural communities claim political voice and revolutionary belonging in contexts where national movements overlook or erase their struggles?
Khalil, Heba M., and Brian Dill. 2018. “Negotiating Statist Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of Post-Revolution Egypt.” Review of African Political Economy 45 (158): 574–91.
Egypt’s post-revolutionary regime reproduce its political economy through a strategic blend of state control and neoliberal reform, what we term ‘statist neoliberalism’
Khalil, Heba M. 2013. “Access Denied: Institutional Barriers to Justice for Victims of Torture in Egypt.” PubMed 23 (1): 28–46.
How do the practices of Egypt’s justice institutions—prosecution, forensics, and courts—contribute to the low incidence and limited success of torture prosecutions?
BOOK REVIEWS
Khalil, Heba M. 2025. “Review of Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brother, by S. Pahwa. Syracuse University Press, 2023.” Muslim Humanitarianism Review 2 (1).
Moussawi, Ghassan, and Heba M. Khalil. 2018. “Review of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India, by Jyoti Puri.” Gender & Society 32 (6): 917–19.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Khalil, Heba M. 2023. “We Belong to the Streets: Lawyers and Social Movements in Post-Revolution Egypt.”
In Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change, edited by S. Boutcher, C. Shdaimah, and M. Yarbrough. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Khalil, Heba M. 2021. “Lawyers and Politics: Lawyering and Counter-Lawyering in Egypt.”
In The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Egypt, edited by R. Springborg, et al. London: Routledge.
Khalil, Heba M. 2019. “Access Denied: Everyday Movements for Public Services in Egypt.”
In Transnational Social Movements in the Arab Region, edited by Al-Asfari Institute. Beirut: The American University in Beirut Press.
Dill, Brian, and Heba M. Khalil. 2018. “Financing Sustainable Development? How International Tax Reform Is Failing Africa.”
In Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by De Mayo et al. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Corkery, Allison, and Heba M. Khalil. 2018. “Do Metrics Matter? Accountability for Economic and Social Rights in Post-Revolution Egypt.”
In Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World, edited by Frey and McNoughton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Khalil, Heba M. 2017. “The Informal Economy as the Alternative Economy for Egyptians.”
In The Egyptian Economy in the 21st Century, edited by W. Gamal. Cairo: Al-Maraya Publishing.
Khalil, Heba M. 2015. “The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability, Again?”
In From the Local to the Global, 3rd ed., edited by G. McCann and S. McCloskey. London: Pluto Press.