Julia Elyachar discusses her book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo at SOAS, 12 February 2026. Discussants Meera Sabaratnam and Reem Abuzaid join her to respond to her book.

This is the second event for 2026 as part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series. The theme for the spring semester of 2026 is Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic.