History Hash Outs — Listening to the Past: Street Hawkers and Cairo’s Lost Sounds

Join Ziad Fahmy, Professor of Modern Middle East History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020).

Street Sounds was a co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2021 Award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011).  Professor Fahmy is currently on sabbatical as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Egypt, researching and writing his third book, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952. 

 

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