Dr. Mona Atia

Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D (University of Washington)

Office: 216 - 1922 F Street, NW(Old Main)
Telephone: 202-994-7757
Fax: 202-994-2484
Email: atia@gwu.edu

Interests

Middle East and Islam

Economic Development

Critical Social Theory

Cities in the Developing World

Courses Taught

Geog 001 Human Geography

Geog 148 Economic Geography

Geog 154 Geography of the Middle East and North Africa

Geog 250 Geographical Perspectives on Development

Selected Publications

2007 “In Whose Interest? Financial Surveillance and the Circuits of Exception in the War on Terror” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3).

2007 Elvin K. Wyly, Mona Atia, Elizabeth Lee, and Pablo Mendez. “Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation: Predatory Mortgage Lending and the U.S. Community Reinvestment Movement” Environment and Planning A .

2006. Elvin K. Wyly, Mona Atia, Holly Foxcroft, Daniel J. Hammel and Kelley Phillips-Watts. “American Home: Predatory Mortgage Capital and Sapces of Race and Class Exploitation in the United States ” Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 88(1): 105-132.

2004. Elvin K. Wyly, Mona Atia, and Daniel J. Hammel. “Has Mortgage Capital Found an Inner-city Spatial Fix” Housing Policy Debate 15(3): 623-685.