Khaled Fahmy

Khaled Fahmy is Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University. He is a historian of the modern Middle East and an active contributor to the press in Arabic and English. His books and articles deal with the history of the Egyptian army in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the history of medicine, law, and urban planning in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt. He charts the specific ways in which a modern state was established in Egypt and the manner in which Egyptians accommodated, subverted, or resisted the institutions of this modern state. He is also a prolific writer for the press in Arabic and English, on social media, and on his blog (www .khaledfahmy .org). He has taught at Princeton, NYU, Columbia, and Cambridge, and is a fellow of the British Academy. His books include In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2018), Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt (Oneworld, 2012), and All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1997).