Ziad Fahmy is a professor of modern Middle East history in the Department of Near Eastern Studies (College of Arts and Sciences). 

He is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford UP, 2020), which won the Urban History Association's 2021 award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford UP, 2011).