Presenter: Ziad Fahmy is Professor of Modern Middle East History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.  He is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford, 2020); and Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford, 2011). He is currently writing his third book, tentatively titled, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952.