Julian Weideman
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Education
B.A. Honours History with International Relations, University of British Columbia
M.Phil. (Distinction) Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford
Ph.D. History, Princeton University
About
I study modern North Africa and the Middle East with a focus on universities, political economy, Islamic thought, and colonialism. My work mainly draws on sources from the Tunisian National Archives.
Teaching
Publications
“‘Tunisian Islam,’ Women’s Rights, and the Limits of French Empire in 20th Century North Africa,” American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (March 2023): 64-88
“Praxis of Reform: The Politics of Zaytuna Student Housing in Colonial Tunis,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 65 (2022): 859-889
“Tahar Haddad after Bourguiba and Bin ʿAli: A Reformist between Secularists and Islamists,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 1 (February 2016): 47-65
“Bourguiba et Ben Ali et la mémoire de Tahar Haddad,” Rawafid: Revue de l’Institut Supérieur de l’Histoire de la Tunisie Contemporaine no. 20 (2015): 12-27