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