Ziad Fahmy

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History

Cornell University

Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES)

Ziad Fahmy is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History at the department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Fahmy received his History Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Arizona, where his dissertation “Popularizing Egyptian Nationalism” was awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (2008) from the Middle East Studies Association. His first book, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011), examines how, from the 1870s until the eve of the 1919 revolution, popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Professor Fahmy is currently beginning another book project tentatively titled, Listening to the Nation: Sounds, Soundscapes, and Mass Culture in Interwar Egypt. In 2011-2012, he was a Faculty Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell U., where the ‎focal theme was “Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, and Politics”. His research has been ‎supported by the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Council for the ‎Humanities, the Institute for Social Science, and the Einaudi Center for International Studies (Cornell U.).‎

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PUBLICATIONS

Book

Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011)

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