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Tarek Kahlaoui

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Qualifications: Ph.D University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia History of Art 2008 Graduate Studies University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia History of Art 2005 Master’s Degree DEA Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (9avril), Tunis,Tunisia Islamic Archeology 2001 Bachelor’s’ Degree Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (9avril), Tunis,Tunisia History 1999

Biography

Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania (2008). Kahlaoui was a tenure-track assistant professor at Rutgers University (2008-2017). He served also as the general director of the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies (2012-2014).

Areas of Expertise

LIB

Research Interest

History sociology

  • The Maghrib’s Mariners and Sea Maps: The Muqqadimah as a Primary source “Journal of Historical Sociology (special issue on IBN khaldoun), vol.30, no.1
    (March) 2017: 43 -56.
  • Towards reconstructing the Muqqadimah following Ibn Khaldun’s reading of the Idrisian text and maps” The journal of north African studies (special issue on IBN khaldoun), vol.13 no.3 (September), 2008: 293-307.
  • -“Populist Passions or Democratic Aspirations? Tunisia’s Liberal Democracy in Crisis,” co-authored with Robert Parks, MERIP, October 26, 2021. https://merip.org/2021/10/populist-passions-or-democratic-aspirations-tunisias-liberal-democracy-in-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2XTkxLQYcb3PV742sF-GNlpKZa-YTLebC6SNHd3xhpox0vn6_NqQ0p4pw
  • -“Ibadi Jerba: Surviving the Early Hafsids (13th-14th centuries)” The Journal of North African Studies, 19 June 2020,  https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2020.1763105.
  • -Co-author with Renata Holod “Guarding a Well-Ordered Space on a Mediterranean Island” In The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea, ed. by A. Asa Eger, University of Colorado Press, 2019:  47-79.
  • -Co-author with Renata Holod “Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control?” In The Aghlabids and their Neighbors. Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa, Ed.by Glaire Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen, Brill, 2018: 449-469. 
  • -Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies, 2017.  

  • Arab World History.
  • International Relations & Diplomacy.

  • 2008 -2009
    Rutgers Center of Historical Analysis
    Faculty Fellow
  • April -2007
    The university of Pennsylvania for the University’s Teaching Excellency Award
    Nominee by the department of History of Art
  • 2008
    The university of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (ABD full funding in 2006-2007 and summer funding since 2002)
    Kolb Junior Fellow
  • 2005
    Kess Travel Fellowship Grant
    Fellow
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