• Colonial Biopolitics

    BLOGPOST: Colonial Biopolitics

    Martina Biondi reports from “Health in the Maghreb: Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges, and International Healthcare (1830–1980),” an international workshop held at the University of Maryland.

  • The Shot that made a Diplomatic Capital

    BLOGPOST: The Shot that made a Diplomatic Capital

    Ali Al Tuma tells the story of the European diplomatic exodus from Tetuan (Morocco), and the subsequent growth of Tangier as the region’s diplomatic capital.

  • Through the Streets of Tunis

    PODCAST: Through the streets of Tunis

    Adnen El Ghali talks to Giorgio Ennas about his recently published book Quand la diplomatie fait la ville, which brings together the consular and architectural histories of Tunis.

  • Donald S. Frederickson: An American Physician at the Court of Hassan II of Morocco

    BLOGPOST: Donald S. Frederickson

    Martina Biondi considers the history of the personal physician of King Hassan II of Morocco, the American Donald S. Fredrickson.

  • The Icy Gale of Death

    PODCAST: The Icy Gale of Death

    Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.

  • Plotting in a Time of Cholera

    BLOG: Plotting in a Time of Cholera

    Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of the sanitary internationalism.