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From Hormuz to Suez: Energy and Security Reordering?
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Tue, Oct 20, 2026
4 PM – 5 PM (GMT+3)
Online Event
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The Arab Political Science Network (APSN), in partnership with the Project on Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism at The American University in Cairo, invites you to a webinar on how energy, geopolitics and security are being redrawn around the Gulf.
Moderator:
Ingy Higazi, research manager for Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism
Speakers:
- Sultan Alamer, resident senior fellow, Middle East Center, New Lines Institute, and co-founder, Arab Political Science Network
- Faris Al-Sulayman, research fellow, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, and co-founder and executive director, Haala Energy
About the discussion
The Arab/Persian Gulf sits where the world’s biggest fault lines meet: energy, geopolitics and security. Right now, all three are being redefined at once. This webinar looks at the Gulf to understand how conflict is shifting political-economic structures and challenging the global energy order.
The US-Israeli war on Iran, its retaliation on the Arab Gulf states and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have done more than disrupt oil markets. They have exposed how fragile a global economy can be when it depends on a single chokepoint. They are also speeding up a reordering of regional power alignments and forcing a hard look at what energy sovereignty and energy disruption really mean for the Gulf and the world.
About the series
This is the third session in Political Economy from the Global South, a series of foundational conversations on how political economy is conceptualized, practiced and contested, and what pathways exist beyond dominant neoliberal thinking.
The series brings together researchers and practitioners to rethink the global political-economic order through critical, multidisciplinary approaches to capitalism and decoloniality. It examines how histories of extraction, securitization, racialized labor and imperial governance still shape economic life today.
Simultaneous interpretation to Arabic is available.
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Speakers
Ingy Higazy
Research Manager, Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism, AUC
Ingy Higazy is the Research Manager for Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism: Voices from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), based at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she specialized in political economy, political theory, and urban geography. Driven by a deep interest in the complex dynamics of space, power, and mobility, Higazy’s research explores how and why the spaces and infrastructures that facilitate movement for certain people and goods, systematically preclude it for others. Her academic writing has been published by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Politics, The Metropole, and Égypte/Monde Arabe, among others.
Sultan Alamer
Senior Resident Fellow
Middle East Policy Council
Dr. Sultan Alamer is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Policy Council and a member of the editorial committee of Alpheratz magazine. He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Alamer’s research focuses on nationalism and nation-building, governance and technology, and regional politics in the broader Middle East, with a special focus on the Arab Gulf countries. Alamer is the co-founder and a member of the executive committee of the Arab Political Science Network. He is also a Bucerius Fellow at Zeit-Stiftung Ebling und Gerd Bucerius. He has written for New Lines Magazine, the Arab Reform Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Middle East Research and Information Project, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, The Gulf Center for Development Policies, and Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He was a weekly syndicated op-ed writer for the Arab international newspapers Al-Hayat and Al-Arabi Al-Jadid, and the Saudi newspapers Okaz and Al-Bilad.
Faris Al-Sulayman
Co-founder of Haala Energy and PhD candidate
London School of Economics
Faris received his BSc from the SFS at Georgetown University, and his MSc from the LSE, both with a focus in comparative political economy. Since 2014, Faris has held a variety of research positions working on the politics and economics of energy in the MENA region at Georgetown University, the Wilson Centre, and at Arabia Monitor, a private research firm. Faris is currently a research fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia, and a non-resident scholar in the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Between research posts in 2017, Faris co-founded Haala Energy, a solar PV developer based in the Gulf focused on building agri-voltaic and off-grid solar-diesel hybrid projects. Faris is currently pursuing a PhD at the LSE, where his research focuses on the role of sovereign wealth funds and state-owned companies in the energy transitions of developing countries, particularly the oil-rich states of the Gulf. The research employs small and medium comparative approaches, making use of new data on completed renewable energy projects and the role of state institutions in project development to try and understand how state capital affects the pace of the energy transition in these contexts, and what effect this has on green industrial policy.