Esmat Elhalaby
Humanities Research Fellow
Education: BA, University of California, Los Angeles; PhD, Rice University
Research Areas: Global intellectual history, colonialism and anti-colonialism, the global south
About Esmat
Esmat Elhalaby is a historian of the Middle East and Research Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi. Elhalaby's research focuses on the Middle East's global connections, particularly its links with South Asia. His current book project, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine, India, and the Making of the Global South, is an intellectual history of partition from the standpoint of its victims.
Publications
Journals
Elhalaby, Esmat. “Empire and Arab Indology.” Modern Intellectual History 19, no. 4 (2022): 1081-1105.
Elhalaby, Esmat. “America’s Areas.” American Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2019): 233-246.
Interview
“Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine, India, and the Making of the Global South”
