Esmat Elhalaby
Areas of interest
- South Asia
- Transnational History
- West Asia
- Intellectual History
Biography
Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History. He works principally on the intellectual history of West and South Asia. His writing has appeared in Modern Intellectual History, American Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Baffler, Boston Review, Public Books and elsewhere. Before joining the University of Toronto, Esmat held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, Davis and NYU Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD in History from Rice University in 2019.
Select publications
“Toward an Intellectual History of Genocide in Gaza,” The Baffler (March 27, 2024).
“Nonalignment and Its Forms of Knowledge,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43:3, 386–397.
"Our Siege is Long,” Public Books (October 27, 2023).
“A Dying Postcolonialism,” The Abusable Past (September 26, 2023).
“Arab Archives and Asian Histories,” World Humanities Report (2023).
“A Global People,” Arab Studies Journal 29:2 (Fall 2021), 156-162.
“Empire and Arab Indology,” Modern Intellectual History 19:4 , (2022), 1081-1105.
“The World of Edward Said,” Boston Review (May 13, 2021)
“Los Angeles Intifada,” Michigan Quarterly Review 59:4 (Fall 2020), 661-674.
“America’s Areas,” American Quarterly 71:1 (2019), 233-246.
“Paradoxes of UNRWA,” Dissent (March 2, 2018).
Awards & recognition
Amílcar Cabral Prize, Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon (2021).