Esmat Elhalaby is a historian of the transnational Middle East and South Asia. He is an Assistant 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. For his article “Empire and Arab Indology,” he received the Amílcar Cabral Prize from the Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
His first book Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Occasionally, he blogs here.