The transimperial history podcast's fifth episode delves into Tunisian and North African History. PhD Candidate Abha Calindi speaks to Professor M'hamed Oualdi from Sciences-Po Paris about the importance but also the limits of the colonial history framework for the history of Tunisia, about Oualdi's new project about slavery in the Mediterranean, about empathy and the micro-historical method, and about how such historical work reflects and challenges present tensions around islamophobia and conservatism in French society and academia. Professor Oualdi's recent works include: 1. M'hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 2. M'hamed Oualdi, "La longue fin de l'esclavage au Maghreb." Cogito, le magazine de la recherche, 2020,https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/la-longue-fin-de-lesclavage-au-maghreb/. 3. M'hamed Oualdi and Isabelle Grangaud, “Does Colonialism Explain Everything in North Africa? What Historians Can Bring to the Table?”/“Tout est-il colonial dans le Maghreb? Ce que les travaux des historiens modernistes peuvent apporter” Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 63-2 (2016): 133–56.

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