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 Andrew Peacock FBA

The history, intellectual culture, manuscripts and philology of the pre-modern Islamic world

Andrew Peacock FBA

Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

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Professor Francesca Orsini FBA

Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia

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