Khaled Fahmy

In 2010, Fahmy returned to Egypt where he was a professor in the Department of History at the American University in Cairo.[1] In 2014-2015 he was an Arcapita Visiting Professor at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. In 2015-2016 he was the Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East History at Harvard University.[2]

Fahmy's dissertation on the social history of the army of Mehmed Ali Pasha was later published by Cambridge University Press under the title All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali: His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.[3] An Arabic translation was published by Dar al-Shorouk. This was followed by a Turkish translation published by Bilgi University Press under the title Paşa'nın Adamları:Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Paşa, Ordu ve Modern Mısır.[4]

Fahmy also wrote a biography of Mehmed Ali Pasha that appeared in the Makers of the Muslim World Series published by Oneworld Publications under the title of Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt.[5] He published a collection of articles in Arabic on the history of law and medicine in nineteenth-century that appeared under the title " الجسد والحداثة: الطب والقانون في مصر الحديثة] .[6]