Adam Mestyan

Associate Professor of History, Duke University, North Carolina

Adam Mestyan is associate professor of history at Duke University in North Carolina. He is the author of Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (PUP, 2017), Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Ifao, 2021) and Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (PUP, 2023).

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Nations and empires

The Arab Kingdom

Amid the chaos of the First World War, a new pan-Arab empire was proclaimed. It faltered, but its historical lessons remain

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Music

Was Cairo’s grand opera house a tool of cultural imperialism?

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