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 Janet Browne FBA

History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science

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Professor Janet Watson FBA

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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Professor Stefan Collini FBA

Intellectual history and literary criticism

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