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M’hamed Oualdi


M’hamed Oualdi is professor of Early Modern and Modern Northern African history at Sciences Po, Paris. His previous research has revolved around the overlapping of Ottoman imperial control and French colonial domination in North Africa. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the project “Slavevoices” funded by a European Research Council grant (2019-2024) that aims to collect the testimonies of North-African, European, and West-African slaves during the abolition era in the Maghreb and the western Mediterranean. 


Prior to joining Sciences Po, M’hamed was assistant professor and then associate professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University (2013-2019), and “maître de conferences” at the French Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco-Paris, 2010-2013).


In addition to A Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, he has also published Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011), and peer-reviewed articles in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Annales: Histoire et Sciences sociales.

ARTICLES BY M’hamed Oualdi