2025 Workshop

Khaled Fahmy

Professor of History and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University.

Khaled Fahmy is a Professor of  History and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University. Having been educated at the American University in Cairo and the University of Oxford, and having earlier taught at Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Harvard and Cambridge Universities, Fahmy is an historian of the modern Middle East with special emphasis on nineteenth century Egypt. 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 19th- and 20th-century Egypt. Through working on such topics as conscription, vaccination, quarantines, forensic medicine and legal torture, Fahmy’s work 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.