KHALED FAHMY D.Phil. 1993, Oxford University Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 tel: (212) 998-8896 fax: (212) 995-4689 e-mail: khaled.fahmy@nyu.edu

I have been interested in discourses and practices centered around the human body which were an integral part of modernity as experienced by Middle Eastern societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the heart of my project is a fundamental question: to whom does the body belong? Is it the "person inhabiting it or the modern state that lays a fundamentally new claim on it? Does it belong to the community in which it lives and which honors and protects it after death? Or to God who, according to classical Islamic thought, entrusted it to "man" to fulfill His wish in this world? My previous research reflected on this question by studying the regime of Mehmed Ali in Egypt in the first half of the 19th century which was squarely based on a brutal system of mass conscription whereby the modern state lay its hands on the bodies of its male citizens. My current research on 19th century Cairo (and to a lesser extent, the "Cosmopolitan" Alexandria) expands on this theme by studying the newly reconstituted domains of law and medicine and by exploring how members of the Egyptian popular classes reacted to the unprecedented encroachment of their daily lives which these new state institutions and practices entailed. My extensive experience in the Egyptian National Archives has enabled me to gather a significant amount of hitherto unconsulted material which has helped me to engage with the exciting new scholarship within Middle Eastern studies on nationalism and state building, social history and gender studies, as well as medical and legal history.

• All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997)
• "An olfactory tale of two cities: Cario in the ninteenth century," in Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon, ed. Jill Edwards. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002)
• "Prostitution in nineteenth-century Egypt," in Outside in: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East, ed. Eugene Rogan. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2001)
• "The police and the people in nineteenth-century Egypt", Die Welt des Islams, 39 (1999), 1- 38
• "The anatomy of Justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt," Islamic Law and Society, 6 (1999), pp. 1-48
• "Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt," in Remaking Women, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)

• Middle East Studies Association
• Egyptian Historical Association
• American Historical Association

• Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (1993-94)
• Malcolm Kerr Awards of the Middle East Studies Association for best humanities dissertation: honorable mention (1993)
• Faculty Fellow in the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University (2000-2001)

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