Ziad Fahmy

• Assistant Professor
• Modern Middle East history
  Director of Undergraduate Studies

• 416 White Hall
• Phone: (607) 255-8847
• Fax: (607) 255-6450
• zaf3@cornell.edu

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 review at Stanford University Press.  He is currently working on another book project tentatively titled, Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt, 1918-1939.