Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 1 from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
2011 has marked a new model of revolution that stem from practical realities and shun standardized theory. What do you think the prospects are for such demands for change that function in the absence of macro-social frameworks and ideologies? What ideas or discourses are likely to rise to the fore in the future? Does the nation state have a future as the main unit of political organization? If not, how will people and societies be organized?
Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 2 from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
What is the role of religion in modern society? Is there a space for religion in public/political discourse? How is the role of religion evolving in society today? How will it evolve in the future?
Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 3 from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
What contemporary ideas are likely to have a significant impact in shaping the future and why?
Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 4 from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
What is the future of the relations among people of the “global south” (economies previously labeled “developing economies” including the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, South, South East Asia and parts of the Middle East)? How do you think the current changes taking place in these economies will effect the global order at large?
Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 5 from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
What is the future of area studies?
Khaled Fahmy is professor and chair of the American University in Cairo’s Department of History. After graduating from AUC with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in political science, Fahmy went on to pursue a DPhil from Oxford University. A renowned expert in Middle East studies, Fahmy served as associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University (NYU) before joining AUC as a faculty member.
A Fulbright scholar, Fahmy’s academic contributions have earned him a series of fellowships and honors including the Malcolm Kerr Awards of the Middle East Studies Association for best humanities dissertation (honorable mention) in 1993. Fahmy was also appointed as a faculty fellow from 2000 to 2001 in the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledge, as part of NYU’s International Center for Advanced Studies. He is a member of the Middle East Studies Association, Egyptian Historical Association and American Historical Association.
Fahmy’s research interests focus on the social history of the modern Middle East, with an emphasis on the history of law and medicine. He has also conducted research on discourses and practices revolving around the human body, posing the basic question of: To whom does the body belong? He attempts to address this question by studying the Egyptian history during the 19th century.
His books include:
Anatomy of Justice: Law and Medicine Nineteenth-Century Egypt. University of California Press, forthcoming.
Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2008.
The Body and Modernity: Essays in the history of medicine and law in Modern Egypt (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 2004) (in Arabic).
All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali Pasha, His Army and the Founding of Modern Egypt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
His co-authored books include:
Muhammad Ali and His Sabil. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004. (With Agnieszka Dobrowolska – An Arabic translation was published by Dar al-Shorouk, 2004)
His essays include:
“Muhammad ‘Ali et la nation égyptienne,” in Bonaparte et l’Égypte: Feu et lumières (Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 2008), pp. 324-329.
“Muhammad ‘Ali” in The Encylclopedia of Western Colonialism, ed. Thomas Benjamin, (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2006), v. 2, pp. 808-09.
“Modernizing Cairo: A revisionist account,” in Making Cairo Medieval, eds. Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005, pp. 173-199.
“The army: The pillar of Muhammad Ali’s project” in Muhammad Ali and His Age, ed. Muhammad Sabir ‘Arab (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 2005), pp. 109-150. (in Arabic)
“Justice, law and pain in Khedival Egypt,” in Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East, ed. Baudouin Dupret. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004, pp. 85-116.
“Justice, law and the modern state in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt,” al-Ruznâme, v. 1, 2003, pp. 397-445. (in Arabic)
“Mutiny in Mehmed Ali’s New Nizamî Army, April-May 1824,” International Journal of Turkish Studies, v. 8, nos. 1-2, Spring 2002, pp. 129-138.
“Prostitution in nineteenth-century Egypt,” in Outside In:On the Margins of the Modern Middle East, ed. Eugene Rogan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.
“An olfactory tale of two cities: Cairo in the nineteenth century” in Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon, ed. Jill Edwards. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002, pp. 155-187.
“The military and politics in Egypt: An historical overview,” in Armée et nation en Egypte: pouvoir civil, pouvoir militaire, ed. May Chartouni-Dubarry. Paris: IFRI, 2001, pp. 21-42.
“Medicine and Power: Towards a social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Egypt,” Cairo Papers in the Social Sciences,Volume 23, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 1-45.
“Medical Conditions in Egyptian Prisons in the Nineteenth Century,” in Marginal Voices in Literature and Society: Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World, ed. Robin Ostle. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation, 2000, pp. 135-153.
“The role of the army in Mehmed Ali’s project” in Egypt in the Reign of Mehmed Ali: Reform or Modernization? ed., Raouf Abbas. Cairo: Supreme Council of Culture, 2000, pp.165-276. (in Arabic).
“The police and the people in nineteenth-century Egypt”, Die Welt des Islams, 39 (1999), pp. 1-38.
“The legal history of Ottoman Egypt,” Islamic Law and Society, 6 (1999), pp. 129-135. (with Rudolph Peters)
“The anatomy of Justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt,” Islamic Law and Society, 6 (1999), pp. 224-271. (An updated Arabic translation appeared in Justice Between Shari‘a and Reality in Egypt During the Ottoman Era, ed. Nasser Ibrahim and Emad Hilal, Cairo: Egyptian Historical Reality, 2002, pp. 213-270.
“The nation and its deserters: Conscription in Mehmed Ali’s army,” International Review of Social History, 43 (1998), pp. 421-436. (Subsequently published in a volume edited by E.-J. Zurcher, Rearming the State: military conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775 1925. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999. pp. 59-77).
“Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt,” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 35-72. (An updated Arabic translation appeared inSocial and Professional guilds in Egypt During the Ottoman Period, ed. Nasser Ibrahim. Cairo: Egyptian Historical Society, 2003, pp. 233-279.)
“Law, medicine and society on nineteenth-century Egypt,” Egypte/Monde arabe, no. 34, 2e semestre, 1998, pp. 17-51.
Our Five Questions:
- 2011 has marked a new model of revolution that stem from practical realities and shun standardized theory. What do you think the prospects are for such demands for change that function in the absence of macro-social frameworks and ideologies? What ideas or discourses are likely to rise to the fore in the future? Does the nation state have a future as the main unit of political organization? If not, how will people and societies be organized?
- What is the role of religion in modern society? Is there a space for religion in public/political discourse? How is the role of religion evolving in society today? How will it evolve in the future?
- What contemporary ideas are likely to have a significant impact in shaping the future and why?
- What is the future of the relations among people of the “global south” (economies previously labeled “developing economies” including the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, South, South East Asia and parts of the Middle East)? How do you think the current changes taking place in these economies will effect the global order at large?
- What is the future of Area Studies?