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Professor Khaled Fahmy FBA

Modern Middle Eastern history, history of Islamic law, the Arab-Israeli conflict

Elected 2020

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-khaled-fahmy

Current post

University of Cambridge Sultan Qaboos bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies

Walid bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge Director

Past appointments

Center of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Shawwaf Visiting Professor

2015 - 2017

Department of History, American University in Cairo Professor and Chair

2010 - 2017

Department of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University Associate Professor

1999 - 2010

Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University Assistant Professor

1994 - 2020

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The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

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Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

Syriac Studies

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