Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Middle East. His interests include the problem of government and urban history in Arab politics. He has previously taught at Oxford University and was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Professor Meystan also holds a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, in Berlin, on the Europe in the Middle East programme (EUME).
He is also the author of Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. His current project is entitled Modern Arab Kingship and he has written a number of essays about Islam and the Arab world. His next major publication is Magical History and Muslim Printing in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Cairo:Ifao, 2019).
This event is part of the Geneva History Seminar series.