Author


Multi award-winning books and articles –
with top publishers and the most popular press outlets.

Top publishers

Field-changing books with the world's leading publishers including Hodder & Stoughton and Oxford University Press.

Popular outlets

Regular presence in BBC History Magazine, Guardian, IndependentNew StatesmanTimes Higher EducationTimes Literary Supplement, and more.

Multi award-winning

Multiple international prizes including the Anglo-Hellenic League's internationally prestigious 
"Runciman Award".

Expertise and experience

The only British-Egyptian historian based in the UK, his published books and articles cover a variety of topics and are accessible to a range of readers.
ALEXANDRIA: THE CITY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD is a Times, Sunday Times, and TLS Book of the Year.

"One of the UK's most significant new thinkers"

The BBC
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