Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat (b. 25 July 1965) is an Egyptian academic, thinker, writer and activist. She was a visiting lecturer at the American University in Cairo, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of Cairo University.[1] She is among the prominent Egyptian intellectuals who left Egypt after the 2013 Egyptian coup.[2] Currently Raouf teaches at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University.[3][4]