Professor Khaled Fahmy FBA

Modern Middle Eastern history, history of Islamic law, the Arab-Israeli conflict
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Subjects
Africa, Asia and Middle East, History

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Timothy Greenwood FBA

History and culture of Late Antique and medieval Armenia, including interactions with institutions, communities and traditions in Sasanian Iran, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.

Timothy Greenwood FBA

Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history

Pekka Hämäläinen  FBA

Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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