Please join us as M'hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po Paris) discusses his new book, A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa (Columbia University Press, 2020)with Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge).

M’hamed Oualdi is full professor of History at Sciences Po, and a historian of early modern and modern North Africa. Trained in Arabic at Inalco-Paris and in History at the Sorbonne University (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), he previously held positions at Princeton University (2013-2019) and Inalco-Paris (2010-2013). His research has centered on two main topics: on slavery and its social impacts on Ottoman Tunisia and on the many effects of transitioning from the Ottoman rule to a French colonial domination in North African societies.

Arthur Asseraf is Lecturer in the History of France and the Francophone World at Cambridge. A historian of modern France, North Africa, and information, he is the author of the award-winning Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019).

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[12/02/2021]