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Himmat Zoubi (Zu’bi) is an urban sociologist and feminist activist. She is the Research Director at Mada Al-Carmel - Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa. She received her PhD in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University and holds two Master's degrees, one in Criminology and another in Gender Studies. Her work focuses on cities in colonial context and she published several book chapters and articles on gender, cities and settler colonialism, memory and oral history, indigenous knowledge and resistance. She has received several awards and grants for her research, among them the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) fellowship, and the Scholarship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Arab Fellows from the Council for Higher Education (2020-2021). Alongside her current project, Re-urbanizing Palestine: “Cultural Spaces” and Palestinian Urbanity, Zoubi is working on her book project “De-Urbanizing Palestine: Transforming Hayfa with Haifa (1948-1953)” about replacing Hayfa (the term Hayfa is used to distinguish between pre-1948 Hayfa and post-occupation Haifa) with Haifa during a transition period between the colonial British Mandate and the Israeli State. It analyzes the making of the Israeli “mixed cities” in the state building era, and the consequent changes to the city’s urban and social sphere. The book explores the everyday resistance of the remaining urban Palestinians the mutabaqqun (المتبقون) to scrutinize the changes that took place in Hayfa at large. Zoubi was a EUME Fellow during the academic years 2018-21. In 2021/22 she was a postdoctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, associated with The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and EUME. In the academic years 2022-25, she remains an associated EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.