Omar Cheta discusses his book How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt at SOAS, 28 October 2025. Discussants Yosra Hussein and Hengameh Ziai join him to respond to his book.
This is the third event for 2025 as part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series. The theme for the autumn semester of 2025 is Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic. You
Catherine Hall discusses her book Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism at SOAS, 16 October 2025. Discussants Annabelle Gilmore and Samia Khatun join her to respond to her book.
This is the second event for 2025 as part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series. The theme for the autumn semester of 2025 is Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic.
Esmat Elhalaby, "Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization"
Timothy Mitchell lecture on ""A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow? How to Undo the Alibi of Growth", SOAS, 14th December 2022. Hosted by the Political Economy Research Cluster in the SOAS Department of Politics and International Studies, in partnership with the SOAS Walter Rodney Collective.
