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 George Hewitt FBA

Modern and Medieval Middle Eastern Language and Literature Linguistics

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

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