Fahmy, Ziad A.
Assistant Professor
Ziad Fahmy (Ph.D., History, University of Arizona, 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History. His interests include nationalism in the modern Middle East, colloquial Arabic mass-culture, and media and identity in Egypt and the Arab World. His dissertation “Popularizing Egyptian Nationalism” was awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (2008). His book, titled: Creating Egyptians: Media-Capitalism and Popular Culture in Egypt, 1870-1919, is under contract at Stanford University Press. He is currently working on another book project tentatively titled, Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt, 1918-1939.
research
research and scholarship focus
- Nationalism and state formation in the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle East
- Trans-nationalism and the fluidity of identity in the nineteenth century Mediterranean World
international geographic focus
- Egypt | country
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Near Eastern Studies (NES) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Near Eastern Studies | graduate field
administrative responsibilities
Director of Undergraduate Studies
teaching
teaching focus
- History of the Modern Middle East
- Egyptian Nationalism
- Arab Nationalism
- Mass Media and Identity in the Modern Middle East
- Women in the Modern Middle East
teaches
- GOVT 2747 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 02:30:PM-03:20:PM) | fall 2009 class
- HIST 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 02:30:PM-03:20:PM) | fall 2009 class
- HIST 4666 - Mass Media & Identities in the Modern Middle East (W 10:10:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2009 class
- JWST 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 02:30:PM-03:20:PM) | fall 2009 class
- NES 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 02:30:PM-03:20:PM) | fall 2009 class
- NES 4666 - Mass Media & Identities in the Modern Middle East (W 10:10:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2009 class
- NES 4991 - Independent Study, Undergraduate (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- NES 6991 - Independent Study: Graduate Level (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- FGSS 4640 - Women in the Modern Middle East (R 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | spring 2009 class
- HIST 2672 - History of Modern Egypt (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | spring 2009 class
- HIST 4642 - Women in the Modern Middle East (R 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | spring 2009 class
- NES 2670 - History of Modern Egypt (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | spring 2009 class
- NES 4642 - Women in the Modern Middle East (R 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | spring 2009 class
- GOVT 2747 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2008 class
- HIST 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2008 class
- HIST 4091 - Contesting Identity in Modern Egypt (W 12:20:PM-02:15:PM) | fall 2008 class
- JWST 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2008 class
- NES 2674 - Hist Of Mod Mideast 19-20th Ce (MW 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2008 class
- NES 4605 - Contesting Identity in Modern Egypt (W 12:20:PM-02:15:PM) | fall 2008 class
background
educational background
- Ph.D. History, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2007, Major Field: History of the Modern Middle East (19th and 20th century), Minor Field: World History/ Comparative History
- M.A. Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2000, Major Field: Middle East History
- B.A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996, Majors: Joint Political Science-History and Middle Eastern Studies
professional background
- 2006 Instructor, University of Arizona, History Department (summer semester)
- 2001-2006 Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, History Department
- 2001-2003 Instructor, University of Arizona, NES Department (summer semesters)
- American Historical Association
- Middle East Studies Association
- World History Association
- Phi Alpha Theta (The History Honors Society)
- MENA (Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Org., University of Arizona)
- National French Honors Society, 1988-1991
awards and distinctions
- 2008, Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities, the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). Awarded to the best Middle East studies dissertation in the humanities.
- 2004-2005, American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Dissertation Fellowship, funded by the State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. 12 months.
- 2003-2004, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (DDRA) for research in Egypt and Great Britain. 12 months.
- 2003-2004, The University of Arizona “Registration Scholarship”
- 2001/Summer Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (U. Arizona). Developed curriculum for a new undergraduate course, “Global Islam.”
- 2000-2001 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for the study of Persian. Academic year.
featured in
- Society for the Humanities announces recipients of 2008-09 Mellon grants | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Media Capitalism: Colloquial Mass Culture and Nationalism in Egypt, 1908-1918” in The International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 01 , Feb 2010 , pp 83-103
“Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion 1885-1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya‘qub Sannu‘” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [Duke University Press] 28, no. 1 (2008).
talks and presentations
- “Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion 1885-1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya‘qub Sannu‘.” Paper presented at The American Research Center in Egypt Lecture Series. Cairo, Egypt. April 2005.
- “The Mediterranean Borderland: The Fluidity of Identity and ‘Political Amphibians’ in Nineteenth Century Alexandria.” Paper presented at The World History Association 12th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. June 2003.
- “The Mediterranean Borderland & Transnational Identity in Pre-Colonial Alexandria, 1840-1882.” Paper presented at The American Research Center in Egypt Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. April 2003.
- “The Global Market and the Europeanization and Growth of Alexandria’s Urban Morphology, 1819-1882.” Paper presented at Tri-University and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference. Phoenix, Arizona. February 2003.
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, Media-Capitalism, Ziad Fahmy