Eyptian Historian Khaled Fahmy, Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at Cambridge University, will give an online talk on Friday, May 8, at 2:30 pm GMT (3:30 Cairo time), about the "history of quarantines in 19th century Egypt, and the science behind it, the state's interest in it, the position of religious scholars about it, and people's reaction to it." Fahmy, will give the talk, via a live zoom event. To join the Zoom event email: [email protected] The talk is related to Khaled Fahmy's latest book, "In Quest of Justice," which was released in 2018 and provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. This highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it, and their response. It illustrates how sharia was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledge and practices were introduced. You can find a review of the book here. In Quest of Justice is Fahmy's second book on medicine and law in modern Egypt, after Al-Gassad Wal Hadatha (“The Body and Modernity: Essays in the History of Medicine and Law in Modern Egypt”) (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 2004) (in Arabic), translated by Sherif Younis.
