Houssem E. Chachia حسام الدين شاشية

Excited to speak at The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University next Thursday, Sept 25 (12–1:30 pm) at Harvard, CMES I’ll be sharing the story of Morisco diplomacy !

22.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📅 Tuesday, June 24, 2025
🕒 18:30 (GMT+1)
📍 Dar Ben-Gacem Kahia
📩 RSVP by email for physical attendance: contact@nadwaseminar.org
🔗 Zoom registration link:
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Website: www.nadwaseminar.org
Podcast: m.soundcloud.com/contact-1160...

17.06.2025 11:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

‘Powerful Moriscos’ in Tunisia during the Seventeenth Century This work focuses on the roles of what I term “the powerful Moriscos”—the leaders of the Morisco community in 17th-century Tunisia, including the Ašrāf, Sufis, and wealthy elites. It explores how thes...

My new article "‘Powerful Moriscos’ in Tunisia" has been selected to appear in the Brill Showcase on Kudos 😇
link.growkudos.com/1p1qu6tj0u8

17.06.2025 11:14 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Contents includes chapters (in order) by Bruno Pomara, @barbarabejarano.bsky.social, myself, Luis Bernabé Pons, @hchachia.bsky.social, Hossain Bouzineb, Amine Oulab Lmaroudia, Catherine Infante, Gerard Wiegers, Mercedes García-Arenal and Tijana Kristic on various aspects of the Morisco diaspora

12.06.2025 08:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean "The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean" published on 24 Jul 2025 by Brill.

@gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal's new edited volume on Moriscos is *finally* advertised 🥳

Contributors include @hchachia.bsky.social @barbarabejarano.bsky.social, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Tijana Krstić, myself and many others 👇

Out next July!

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07.05.2025 13:38 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We were thrilled to have Prof. Augustin Jomier as our speaker in the Nadwa Seminar. Prof. Jomier's lecture on the creation of the Zaytuna's Ahmadiyya Library was absolutely incredible, and the discussion was so enriching! The lecture will soon be available on our podcast!

17.04.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't miss the lecture by Prof. Augustin Jomier, (IRMC - INALCO )
Title: Public Libraries in Ottoman Tunis: The Creation of the Zaytuna’s Ahmadiyya Library (1840)
April 16, 2025, 15:00 (GMT+1), Dar Ben-Gacem Kahia
RSVP: contact@nadwaseminar.org
Zoom registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

10.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Images of several book covers and Spanish documents used in my book, "The Morisco Landscape: Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought." The book can be browsed and read for free on the publisher's website.
Link: crik.sa/bookread/202...

27.01.2025 15:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I received my Christmas gift! :) Finally, it’s possible to download the diary and all the works of Francisco Jiménez from his stay in Tunisia between 1720 and 1735.
bibliotecadigital.rah.es/es/consulta/...

26.12.2024 15:09 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It was a pleasure to have Prof. Peter Kitlas as our speaker in the Nadwa Seminar series of hybrid talks. Thank you Prof. Kitlas for the magnificent lecture and thanks to the participants, both in person and on Zoom, for enriching the discussion!

Podcast: m.soundcloud.com/contact-1160...

22.11.2024 19:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to share two exciting pieces of news! I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Tunis and have been selected to join the board of The Mediterranean Seminar!

19.11.2024 15:26 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Siempre bienvenido!!

19.11.2024 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

De un booklet que he escrito desde mucho tiempo sobre Dar Ben Gacem... una de las familias que han habitado la casa tenía una larga historia en el comercio de los perfumes, se llaman Anoun...

19.11.2024 10:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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If I remember correctly, Leo Africanus (al-Ḥasan al-Wazzān) mentioned the perfume market when he was in Tunis at the beginning of the 16th century!

19.11.2024 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Title: Maghariba across the Maghreb
Speaker: Peter Kitlas (American University of Beirut)
Register for the Zoom session via this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More details: nadwaseminar.org

19.11.2024 09:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Could you add me please!

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