Adam Mestyan is a historian and the Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on modern Syria and Egypt. His monographs include Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Ifao, 2021); and Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2017). He has also been engaged in Islamic/Arabic digital humanities projects using TEI XML, such as a digital textual database on nineteenth-century Cairo’s urban history or a chronology of Arabic periodicals, 1800-1929.
(Egyptian National Archives, Cairo, June 2024)