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In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. As a youth, Husayn was brought from Circassia to Turkey, where he was sold as a slave. In Tunis, he ascended to the rank of general before French conquest forced his exile to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. His death was followed by wrangling over his estate that spanned a surprising array of actors: Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II and his viziers; the Tunisian, French, and Italian governments; and representatives of Muslim and Jewish diasporic communities.A Slave Between Empires investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history. M'hamed Oualdi places Husayn within the international context of the struggle between Ottoman and French forces for control of the Mediterranean amid social and intellectual ferment that crossed empires. Oualdi considers this part of the world not as a colonial borderland but as a central space where overlapping imperial ambitions transformed dynamic societies. He explores how the transition between Ottoman rule and European colonial domination was felt in the daily lives of North African Muslims, Christians, and Jews and how North Africans conceived of and acted upon this shift. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic, French, Italian, and English sources, A Slave Between Empires is a groundbreaking transimperial microhistory that demands a major analytical shift in the conceptualization of North African history.

Ḥusayn, Jinirāl, --- Estate. --- Africa, North --- Tunisia --- Europe --- Mediterranean Region --- History --- Officials and employees --- Relations --- Colonization. --- Civilization --- Civilization.

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Revolutions in the Arab world have not only shaken or brought down regimes deemed irremovable. Their shock waves have also upset the relations of Arab countries with other states in the world. It is this fundamental and yet little explored question that this book addresses on the repercussions of the Arab revolutions on a regional and international scale, through the examples of Turkey, Iran, Russia, Israel and from China. Each of the chapters of the first part thus offers an off-centre look at the revolutionary processes still at work. The second part of the book allows a completely different shift. By focusing on the media and on the artistic scene, it is a profound reformulation of political discourses and practices that the contributors to this work bring to light. And this, for questions as central as the practices of Islam, the capacities of engagement, and conversely the perpetuation of the logics of obedience. Finally, this book explores, in its last section, the social and spatial transformations on which the revolutions have shed new light: how the liberalization policy led by the al-Assad regime has contributed to the outbreak of violence in Syria. ; how the migrations of workers in the Maghreb, the Middle East and the Gulf have influenced the transformation of Arab regimes; how, lastly, the revolutions changed the relationship of the Egyptians to the public space and of the Libyans to their territory.

Arab countries --- Politics and government --- islamisme --- Israël --- Tunisie --- jeunesse --- Jordanie --- Syrie --- Égypte --- sémantique textuelle --- Bahreïn --- Baas --- Libye --- médias --- Alaouites --- communauté internationale --- Iran --- autoritarisme --- migration --- confessionalisme --- Réseaux sociaux --- Turquie