A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa

A Slave Between Empires follows General Husayn, a 19th-century slave whose life and posthumous estate connected disparate empires and cultural communities. Oualdi draws on a diverse set of sources to present this microhistory of global colonialism in the 19th-century.

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PAW's October 2026 cover, featuring a photo of a loaf of challah bread and the headline "The Braids That Bind."
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October 2026

Holding on to Jewish life; Katy Anderson Keating ’08’s career in wine; Hollywood loves Princeton.