Please join the Fares Center for a lecture titled The Day After the Gaza War: The View from Egypt and Jordan, with Professors Khaled Fahmy and Malik Mufti. During this event, the speakers will discuss the way in which the war has affected Egypt and Jordan as well as these countries’ positions on the current situation in Gaza and potential futures.

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Khaled Fahmy Bio:
Khaled Fahmy is Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University. He is an historian of the modern Middle East with specific emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. His academic publications deal with the history of the Egyptian army in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as the history of medicine, law and urban planning. He also works on the history of Egypt’s wars with Israel: Suez 1956, June 1967, the war of Attrition, 1969-70 and the October 1973 Wars. In addition to his academic publications which have appeared in both English and Arabic, Fahmy is also active on regular and social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Clubhouse as well as his bi-lingual blog: www.khaledfahmy.org).

Malik Mufti Bio:
Malik Mufti is professor of political science at Tufts University, where he teaches courses on international relations as well as the politics of the Middle East. He is the author of Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (1996), Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea (2009), and The Art of Jihad: Realism in Islamic Political Thought (2019). His most recent articles include “Nietzsche, the Muslim Falāsifa, and Leo Strauss’s Avicennan Turn” (Review of Politics, 2024) and “Turkey at 100: Between Constancy and Change” (Uluslararası İlişkiler/International Relations, 2023 special issue). He is currently working on the encounter between Islam and America.