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Amr Khairy
akhairy at ifao dot egnet dot net
The Environmental history of nineteenth-century rural Egypt, including the histo
Postdoctoral
Doctoral Degree (PhD) in Human Ecology - Lund University
Masters degree in Development studies at Lund University (2015-2017); Masters degree in Human Ecology (2017-2018)
The environmental history of nineteenth-century rural Egypt, being part of the global history of global warming; the modern history of energy and technology in agrarian production; the intellectual history of industrialisation in Egypt; Contemporary history questions of rural technologies in semi-arid agrarian commmunities across Egypt and North Africa
Historical and archival studies on the material and cultural histories of technology in modern agrarian Egyptian history
Book (forthcoming, 2026). Egypt Ignited: How Fossil Capital Arrived on the Nile.
Research report, co-authored with Youssef Ramez Boktor (2025). “Fossil Water, ‘Renewables’ Capitalism: Land, Groundwater, and Solar Power in Siwa Oasis, Egypt”. Transnational Institute (TNI): https://www.tni.org/en/publication/fossil-water-renewables-capitalism
Short article (2025). “Trees at the Dawn of the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of Empire”, CEDEJ, 8 May 2025 https://doi.org/10.58079/13w3k
Book Review (2024). “Book Review - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region”, Antipode, https://antipodeonline.org/2024/02/21/dismantling-green-colonialism/
PhD thesis (2023). Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76), [Doctoral Thesis (monograph), Department of Human Geography and Human Ecology Division], Lund University. ISBN: 978-91-8039-852-7
“Al-himar wa al-safina: kayf mahadat misr al-fatimiyya al-tariq lil-‘alam al-hadith [The donkey and the boat: how Fatimid Egypt paved the way for the modern world]”, Al-manassa, 10 December 2024: https://manassa.news/stories/20619
“Mohamed Tawfiq: kayf yakhruj al-tarikh min dabab al-nostalgia [Mohamed Tawfiq: 1980s as history, not nostalgia]”, Al-manassa, 27 May 2021: https://almanassa.com/stories/5087
Research report, co-authored with Youssef Ramez Boktor (2025). “Fossil Water, ‘Renewables’ Capitalism: Land, Groundwater, and Solar Power in Siwa Oasis, Egypt”. Transnational Institute (TNI): https://www.tni.org/en/publication/fossil-water-renewables-capitalism
Short article (2025). “Trees at the Dawn of the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of Empire”, CEDEJ, 8 May 2025 https://doi.org/10.58079/13w3k
Book Review (2024). “Book Review - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region”, Antipode, https://antipodeonline.org/2024/02/21/dismantling-green-colonialism/
PhD thesis (2023). Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76), [Doctoral Thesis (monograph), Department of Human Geography and Human Ecology Division], Lund University. ISBN: 978-91-8039-852-7
“Al-himar wa al-safina: kayf mahadat misr al-fatimiyya al-tariq lil-‘alam al-hadith [The donkey and the boat: how Fatimid Egypt paved the way for the modern world]”, Al-manassa, 10 December 2024: https://manassa.news/stories/20619
“Mohamed Tawfiq: kayf yakhruj al-tarikh min dabab al-nostalgia [Mohamed Tawfiq: 1980s as history, not nostalgia]”, Al-manassa, 27 May 2021: https://almanassa.com/stories/5087
“Ecologies, infrastructures and futures in the absence of sovereignty” workshop. Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME)/CEDEJ. December 2024.
“The Politics of Infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa Workshop”, CEDEJ-ArabPSN, July 2024.
“Political Economy and Religion, 2024 workshop” at Northumbria University, June 2024.
Workshop “Early Encounters with Coal: Retrieving Views from Below”, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, December 2022.
“The Politics of Infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa Workshop”, CEDEJ-ArabPSN, July 2024.
“Political Economy and Religion, 2024 workshop” at Northumbria University, June 2024.
Workshop “Early Encounters with Coal: Retrieving Views from Below”, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, December 2022.