Hengameh (Henny) ZIAI

Hengameh (Henny) ZIAI received her PhD from Columbia University Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department. She works on critical political economy and histories of resistance in Sudan under Ottoman-Egyptian rule. Firmly committed to transgressing disciplinary boundaries, her works lies at the intersection of Middle East and African Studies, and engages postcolonial theory, critical political economy, and Islamic studies. She has a minor obsession with discovering rare archives and is passionate about (trying) to cook Iranian food.