Khaled Fahmy (Arabic: خالد فهمي) is an historian and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University.
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] After serving as His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, he moved to Tufts University in 2022.
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]
In 2023, he published In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt.[7]