Khaled Fahmy

Khaled Fahmy is an historian and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University.Fahmy took a Bachelor of Arts in 1985 and a Master of Arts in 1988 at the American University in Cairo, and completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1993. He has taught at Princeton University, New York University, Columbia University, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. In 2014-2015 he was the Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studies at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, where he taught a course on the social history of Islamic law. In 2015-2016 he was the Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East History at Harvard University. After serving as His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, he moved to Tufts University in 2022.

Publications Fahmy's dissertation on the social history of the army of Mehmed Ali Pasha was later published by Cambridge University Press under the title All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali: His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. An Arabic translation was published by Dar al-Shorouk. This was followed by a Turkish translation published by Bilgi University Press under the title Paşa'nın Adamları:Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Paşa, Ordu ve Modern Mısır.

Fahmy also wrote a biography of Mehmed Ali Pasha that appeared in the Makers of the Muslim World Series published by Oneworld Publications under the title of Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt. He published a collection of articles in Arabic on the history of law and medicine in nineteenth-century that appeared under the title " الجسد والحداثة: الطب والقانون في مصر الحديثة" .

In November 2018 he published In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt with the University of California Press. The book won the 2019 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award of the American Society for Legal History, given annually for the best book in non-United States legal history written in English, and was the winner of the 2020 Social History Society Book Prize.