Esmat Elhalaby is a historian. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He received his BA from UCLA and his PhD from Rice University. Previously he was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis and a Humanities Research Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi.
His first book Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization was published by the University of California Press in 2025.
Occasionally, he blogs here.