Dr. Mohamed Ahmed

• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, A Lexicological Study of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic in Iraqi Hebrew Novels, 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, Codes across languages: On the translation of literary code-switching, Multilingua, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, XML Annotation of Hebrew Elements in Judeo-Arabic Texts, Journal of Jewish Languages, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, An Initial Survey of Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah, Al-Masaq, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic: In the India Book Letters from the Geniza and in Other Texts, Journal of Jewish Studies, 2018Review Article, 2018, DOI , URL
• Esther-Miriam Wagner & Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, From Tuscany to Egypt: Eighteenth Century Arabic Letters in the Prize Paper Collections, Journal of Semitic Studies, 2017Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, Arabic Codes in Hebrew Texts: On the Typology of Literary Code-switching, Journal of Jewish Languages, 2016Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Kalila wa-Dimna: T-S Ar.6.321 part of the Arabic book Kalila wa Dimna, story nine, 2021, -Miscellaneous, 2021
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, From a lost book of Egyptian proverbs: T-S Ar.13.13, 2019, -Miscellaneous, 2019, DOI , URL
• Ahmed, Mohamed, Judaeo-Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: T-S Ar.37.127, 2018, -Miscellaneous, 2018, DOI , URL
• Wagner, Miriam and Ahmed, Mohamed, T-S Ar. 51.86a: Shiâ€~ite and Karaite â€" a Fatimid melange, 2017, -Miscellaneous, 2017, DOI , URL
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, Lital Levy, Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press 2014, xiii, 337 pp., 2014Review, 2014
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, Moshe Behar/Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (eds.), Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought. Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893\textendash1958, Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press 2013, ca. 280 pp., 2013Review, 2013
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 18th-Century Judeo-Arabic Documents from the Prize Papers Collection, Journal of Jewish Languages, 2020, p1-23Journal Article, 2020, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Iraqi Jews: From Baghdad to Exile [in Arabic], Cairo: EMDCO Press, Cairo, EMDCO Press, 2018Book, 2018
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts: The Stylistics of Exophonic Writing, Edinburgh University Press, 2019Book, 2019
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Hebrew and Arabic in Contact: Deviation and Interference in Iraqi Jewish Fiction, Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Sección Hebreo, 63, 2014, p11 - 25Journal Article, 2014
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed & Ashraf Al-Sharkawy, TEL AVIV MIZRAH: The potential of Iraqi cultural identity within two generations, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 14, (3), 2015, p430 - 445Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Main themes in the literary works of Iraqi Jewish novelists., Journal of Faculty of Arts-Mansoura University, 46, (1), 2010, p979 - 1010Journal Article, 2010
• Arabic Clerical Letters in the Prize Papers Collections, Dr Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Leiden:, Brill, 2027, -Critical Edition (Book), 2027
• Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah, Mohamed A. H. Ahmed & Dr Ben Outhwaite (Cambridge), Brill, 2027, -Critical Edition (Book), 2027, URL
• Judaeo-Arabic Documents Intercepted in the Year 1800: Prize Papers on Three Algerian Jews and the Ship 'Venus'., Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Leiden:, Brill, 2028, -Critical Edition (Book), 2028
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Egyptian Arabic Proverbs in the Cairo Genizah, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Brill, 12, (2), 2021, p115-130Journal Article, 2021, DOI
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 18th century Egyptian Clerical Letters in the Prize-Papers Collection, 2021Journal Article, 2021
• Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters in, editor(s)Nick Posegay , Magdalen M. Connolly , and Ben Outhwaite , From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Leiden, Brill, 2024, pp187-190 , [Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Book Chapter, 2024, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• RYLANDS GENIZAH COLLECTION A 803 (1825) in, editor(s)Esther-Miriam Wagner , A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp365-369 , [Esther-Miriam Wagner & Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Book Chapter, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• A CLERICAL LETTER BY RAFAEL AL-TUKHI FROM THE PRIZE PAPERS COLLECTIONS (1758) in, editor(s)Esther-Miriam Wagner , A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic, Open Book Publishers, 2021, pp261-265 , [Esther-Miriam Wagner & Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Book Chapter, 2021, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed & Rania Rawhy, The Linguistic Features of the Introduction to Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah (in Arabic)), Al-Abhath, 67, (1), 2020, p155-172Journal Article, 2020
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, A North African Judaeo-Arabic letter from the Prize Papers Collection, Astarté. Estudios del Oriente Próximo y el Mediterráneo, 2, 2019, p121-130Journal Article, 2019, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Mohamed Ahmed, Ben Outhwaite, Bilingualism and Script-Switching in a Poet"s Notebook from the Genizah, Zutot, 2025, p1 - 14, p1-14Journal Article, 2025, DOI
• A Christian Mercantile Letter from the Prize Papers Collections (1759) in, editor(s)Esther-Miriam Wagner , A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp267 - 274, [Wagner, Esther-Miriam, and Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Book Chapter, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah Documents: A Comparative Historical Study" (in Arabic), Ostour, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2026Journal Article, 2026
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed & Sally Abed, Cultural Insights from Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah, Review of Middle East Studies, 2026Journal Article, 2026
• Two Languages, One Text: Cultural Translation in Iraqi Jewish Fiction in, editor(s)A. Engelhardt et al. (eds.) , Ein Paradigma der Moderne, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprech, 2016, pp221 - 235, [Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Book Chapter, 2016, DOI
• Between Literature, History, and Anthropology Fragments of Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah, Mohamed A. H. Ahmed Ahmed Sheir, a special issue (in Arabic and English) on the Cairo Genizah for Ostour, Doha, Ostour, 2026, [Mohamed A. H. Ahmed]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2026
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Between Literature, History, and Anthropology Fragments of Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah, 1st May 2025, 2026, TCD, Mohamed A. H. Ahmed Ahmed Sheir, Ostour, (Special Issue)Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2026
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed Sally Abed(ed.), Anthropology of Texts: Crossroads and Connections, The Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES)., TCD, (Special Issue), 1 - 2 August 2024, Cambridge University Press, 2026Proceedings of a Conference, 2026
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Review of Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800, by Boris Liebrenz , Journal of Semitic Studies, 69, (2), 2024, p42-44Review, 2024

• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, Likourna: The Story of the Lost Letters, 2018, -Miscellaneous
• Mohamed Ali Hussein Ahmed, My Pala Mother Tongue, 2016Poster
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 'Nurani Stork (Novel in Arabic)', Dubai, Thaqafa Publishing House, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 'Likorna (Novel in Arabic)', Dubai, Thaqafa Publishing House, 2018, -Fiction and creative prose
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 'Ghurbat Al-Sufi (Poetry Collection in Arabic)', Cairo, Rawafed, 2018, -Poetry
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 'Wasaya Al-Tufan (Poetry Collection in Arabic)', Cairo, Al-Said, 2021, -Poetry
• Mohamed Al-Temawy, 'Exit in Five Days (in Arabic)', 1st, Abu Dhabi, Thaqafa, 2022, -Fiction and creative prose
• Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, 'Hidden Literature', Dublin, Scotland, UAE, Spain, USA, 2022, -Exhibition, URL
• Sally Abed & Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Loss and Alienation in Arabic Poetry from the Cairo Genizah, Between the Personal and the Public: Representations of Crisis in the Cairo Geniza Fragments, in the International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages, Leeds University, 1st - 4th July 2024, 2024Oral Presentation
• (ed.), The Cairo Genizah and the Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, 28th " 29th February, 2024Proceedings of a Conference

• Title

  Arabic Use of the Iraqi Jewish Novelists, hosted by Leipzig University/ Germany.
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  DAAD PhD Scholarship (€ 81800)
  Date From

  01-OCT-2011
  Date To

  01-SEP-2015
• Title

  Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah
  Summary

  Poetry enjoys a special place in Arabic culture and literature. For centuries, Arabs of all faiths have considered poetry a key source for knowledge, intellectuality and wisdom. In the pre-Islamic era, poetry was considered as `the Arab knowledge" and `the Arab cultural archive", in which the social and cultural history, language, arts, music, religious and Arab"s human experience were stored and preserved. Being a part of Arabic culture, Jews of Arab lands equally enjoyed writing and reading poetry. APCG will investigate for the first time a hitherto neglected collection of Arabic poetry fragments written in Hebrew script (in Judaeo-Arabic), which has been preserved in arguably the most important Jewish treasure trove: the Cairo Genizah. The fragments, numbered in the hundreds, constitute a unique source for understanding medieval and Early Modern Egypt from three main perspectives: Arabic studies, Jewish social and cultural studies, and anthropological studies.
  
  The core aims of the project are:
  " to make the entirety of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the Cairo Genizah accessible to both academic scholars and to the public in a comprehensive database and in critical editions;
  " to reveal, through the study of poetry, hitherto hidden aspects of social and cultural history of the Jews in the Middle East with regard to literacy, education and intercommunal relations;
  " to explore hierarchies, interpersonal relationships and the social function of poetry in medieval and early modern Egypt through the study of Genizah poetry.
  
  To achieve the planned main objectives, APCG carries out a thorough interdisciplinary study of Genizah"s Arabic poetry. This approach involves research from philological, linguistic, literary, historical and anthropological perspectives.
  Funding Agency

  ERC
  Date From

  01-JUL-2020
  Date To

  30-JUN-2026
• Title

  DAAD (GERSS) Scholarship
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  DAAD (€ 6000)
  Date From

  11/2009
  Date To

  04/2010
• Title

  The Three Algerian Jewish Merchants and the Venus Ship
  Summary

  This ground-breaking research project will bring to light previous unexplored and invaluable Jewish documents from the late 18th century, which have been kept for more than 200 years unstudied. The Prize Papers Collections in the National Archives in Kew Gardens contain more than 280 Jewish letters and documents in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script) taken from the British cartel ship, the Venus, in 1800.
  The documents are valuable as very little comparative material in Algerian Judaeo-Arabic from that period is known. Thus, they present a most exciting opportunity to investigate the Jewish business network across borders in the late 18th-century Mediterranean. The project seeks funding in order to make the collection accessible to both academic scholars and to the public and to disseminate the results of the project nationally and internationally.
  
  This new project will lead the research into the field of Algerian Jewish language and history. The unexplored Algerian Judaeo-Arabic documents in the Prize Papers Collections constitute a unique chance to study the history, language, anthropology and culture of Jewish trades in the Mediterranean and North African countries during the late 18th century. It is hoped that the resulting investigation of these invaluable documents and letters will open up the time period to linguists, social and economic historians as an emerging source for research and knowledge. Therefore, the project importance is the knowledge that it proposes to generate to the Academic field and to the public.
  Funding Agency

  NA
  Date From

  2020
• Title

  "Code-switching in Religious, Secular and Philosophic Judaeo-Arabic Texts". Hosted by Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Thyssen Stiftung Fellowship (€ 24000)
• Title

  From Tuscany to Alexandria: Arabic and Hebrew letters in the Prize Paper Collections, hoated by Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge/ UK.
  Summary

  From Tuscany to Alexandria: Arabic and Hebrew mercantile letters in the Prize Paper collections
  
  The Prize Paper Collections in the National Archives in Kew Gardens contain a sack full of business letters in Arabic and Hebrew script, which were seized in 1759 by British seafarers as part of the loot on a Venetian ship bound for Alexandria.
  
  Virtually untouched since that time " most of the letters are still unopened and have been since they were archived in the 18th-century " they present a most exciting opportunity to investigate the interaction between Christian, Jewish, and Muslim merchants across borders in the 18th-century Mediterranean. The letters, numbering in the dozens, are particularly valuable as very little comparative material in Arabic script from that period is known and virtually nothing has been edited and published on the topic.
  
  Traders make an extremely important subject for studies on historical interfaith relations for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it is usually business activity that creates the only opportunity for people of different faiths to meet in a neutral place and work for a common benefit. Commerce therefore really establishes an arena in which people deal with each other regardless of their respective religious background. Secondly, being part of a community of merchants also provides a facet of identity to people that may become as important as their religious identity. Merchants therefore often feel as much part of a perceived community of traders as they see themselves as Jews, Muslims or Christians.
  Funding Agency

  DFG, Germany (€ 147600)
  Date From

  01-FEB-2017
  Date To

  January 2020

Other Humanities, Languages and literature, History, Heritage and Archaeology,

• Irish Network for Middle East and North African Studies
• Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2020
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS OF HEBREW

• Invited External Examiner for a PhD Defense, University of Limerick (Declined due to other commitments).
• Invited External Reviewer for a Senior Academic Promotion application to Full/Associate Professor, The American University of Kuwait (AUK).
• Invited Chapter Author, "Musical Lives: Volume 1 Identities, Communities, & Encounters" (MUSLIVES project, King's College London). Chapter: 'Rhythm, Dance, and Desire: A Lost Song Poem from the Medieval Cairo Genizah'.
• Invited Guest Editor, Special Issue (in Arabic and English) on the Cairo Genizah for Ostour, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ISSN: 2305-2473).
• Invited Peer Reviewer for Northern European Journal of Language Technology (Linköping University Electronic Press)
• Invited Chapter Author, "From the Battlefield of Books" (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Brill). Chapter 12: 'Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters'.
• Invited Book Reviewer, Journal of Jewish Studies. Reviewed: Mordechai Akiva Friedman, A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic. Vol. 69(1), pp. 212-214. (DOI: 10.18647/3366/jjs-2018).
• Invited Reviewer for an Arabic translation of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill from Irish (via English), as part of the Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture project "Aistriú: crossing territories, languages and artforms".
• Invited Guest Interlocutor, "Musicality of Texts" Workshop, Music Department, King's College London. September 2024
• Invited Book Reviewer, Journal of Semitic Studies (Oxford University Press). Reviewed: Boris Liebrenz, Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800. Vol. 69(2), pp. e42-e44. (DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgae011).
• Invited Speaker, "Arabic Business Letters in the Prize-Papers Collection," Cairo Conversations (funded by Mellon Grant), The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Dec 2018
• Invited Peer Reviewer for Journal of Semitic Studies (Oxford University Press)
• Invited Speaker, "Arabic elements and Arabic interference in modern Hebrew texts written by Iraqi Jewish authors," Semitic Philology Seminar, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Oct 2017
• Invited Peer Reviewer for HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research (De Gruyter Brill)
• Expert Academic Reviewer and Evaluator for a highly competitive annual Research Fellowship in Dublin Since 2022
• Invited Speaker, "The Cairo Genizah as a Treasury of Arabic Literature," The NYUAD Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Feb 2023
• Invited Speaker, "The Cairo Genizah and Arabic Literature: Kalila wa-Dimna as an Example," Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education Online Middle Eastern Studies Webinar. Jan 2022
• Invited Peer Reviewer for Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Routledge / Society for the Medieval Mediterranean)
• Invited Speaker, "The Cairo Genizah and Arabic Literature: Kalila wa-Dimna as an Example," Research Colloquium Kalila and Dimna", AnonymClassic, Freie Universität Berlin. Dec 2021
• Invited Speaker, "The Art of Arabic Correspondence in the Ottoman Empire," Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge. Apr 2016
• Invited Book Reviewer, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Declined due to other commitments).
• Invited Speaker, "Cultural Translation in Iraqi Jewish Fiction: Possibilities and Problems," Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Jan 2017
• Invited Chapter Author, "Multiscriptism in Literary Texts and Contexts" (Palgrave). Chapter focuses on Arabic/Hebrew script switching in Arabic poetry from the Cairo Genizah.