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Khaled Fahmy among GDI 100 Thought Leaders in Arabic-Speaking World

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Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, has been named one of 2016's top 100 Thought Leaders in the Arabic-speaking world by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), an independent think-tank in economics...

**CANCELLED** The Egyptian Army in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

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The CMES Director's Series presents Khaled Fahmy Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture...

Examining the Egyptian-Saudi Dispute Over the Red Sea Islands: Political and Legal Implications for the Middle East

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Khaled Fahmy Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle East History, CMES; Professor of History, American University in Cairo Khaled Fahmy is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at...

The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the...

How to Record a Revolution: Lessons from Egypt

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is please to present Khaled Fahmy Professor and Chair, Department of History, American University of Cairo After graduating from AUC with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in political science...

How a Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself in the Middle of a Revolution

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>Khaled Fahmy, the 2015-2016 Shawwaf Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, shares his memories of Egypt's uprising, five years after Tahrir, in a Huffington Post/World Post interview.

Q&A with Khaled Fahmy

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Khaled Fahmy is the 2015–2016 Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research interests lie in the social and cultural history of modern Egypt. He has been conducting research in the...

Egypt: Unfinished Revolution?

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and ILSP: SHARIAsource at Harvard Law School present Jack Shenker Journalist; author, The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution Khaled Fahmy Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East...

Congratulations, 2016-17 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of thirteen students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its three graduating PhD students. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Zena Agha—Thesis: “The Judaization of...

Book by CMES Professor Roger Owen to be discussed at Translation Salon during AUC Forum

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CMES Professor Roger Owen's book "Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul" (Oxford University Press, 2004), will be the subject of a Translation Salon held on May 23rd during the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Seventh Annual Forum On...

Congratulations, 2020-21 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and PhD programs. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Abdullah Almutabagani Mouhanad Al Rifay—Thesis: "Scattered Images: The Perpetual Destabilization of Family in Pursuit of...

Durability: A History of the Future, 1869-1912

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The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar presents Timothy Mitchell Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Professor Mitchell's talk will focus on Egypt 1869-1912, and construction of...