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Khaled Fahmy is the Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a specialty in the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on nineteenth-century Egypt. He has written several books including a revisionist account of the army of Mehmed Ali Pasha (‘All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt’), a critical biography of this towering nineteenth-century personality (‘Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt’) and ‘al-Jasad wa-l’Hadatha (‘The Body and Modernity’), a collection of scholarly articles that deal with the history of the disciplines and practices of medicine and law in nineteenth-century Egypt.
 
Fouad Halbouni is presently a EUME Fellow for the academic year 2022/2023. His current research titled “Exercises in Survival” examines everyday forms of moral practices among Coptic activists in their attempt to reclaim their disrupted and damaged lives in the face of political repression following the Egyptian revolution.