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Department of Near Eastern Studies
Cornell University
409 White Hall
Ithaca
NY
14853
United States
ABOUT
Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University's Department of Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020); and Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011).
He is currently writing his third book, tentatively titled, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952. His articles have appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, History Compass, and in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. His research has been ?supported by the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Research Center in Egypt.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Identity/Representation
Media
Modernization
Music
Nationalism
Pop Culture
Transnationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Colloquial Arabic Media & Mass Cult
Egypt Natlsm (19th-20th C.)
Sensory History
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2007
| Hist
| U of Arizona
MA
| 2000
| NE Stds
| U of Arizona
BA
| 1996
| History
| Rutgers University
Abstracts
Walking and Working the Streets: Regulating and Silencing Sounds and Bodies in Early Twentieth Century Cairo
Egyptian Radio before State Broadcasting: Transitioning from Media-Capitalism to Media-Etatism, 1926-1934.
