Adnen el Ghali
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ORCID : 0009-0000-2610-4295
I am an architect, urban planner, and historian with a multidisciplinary background. I graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette and the Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, and I hold a degree in political science from the University of Teramo and a PhD in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
As a member of various associations including Association de Sauvegarde de la Médina (ASM) of Tunis, Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia (ASAI), Società italiana di storia internazionale (SiSi) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), I am deeply committed to reconciling heritage conservation with contemporary urban challenges and Academic Research.
My research explores the intersections of urban history, architectural history, and the history of mobility between Europe and the Muslim worlds, with a particular emphasis on minorities and Mixedness in the Red Sea and Mediterranean regions.
Formerly a fellow at the École Française de Rome and a recipient of the Stipendium Academia Belgicae in Rome, I have contributed to projects examining the urban fabric of Red Sea and Mediterranean cities. My recent work investigates the habitus of European consuls stationed in Ottoman North Africa, as well as the urban history of the Medina of Tunis.
Since March 2025, I have been an Assegnista di Ricerca (Research Fellow) within the ERC CoG 2023 Project REDMIX "Unpacking Mixedness for an Inclusive History of the Red Sea, 1800s–2000s", hosted by the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin. I also teach at the Ferdinando Rossi School of Advanced Studies in the same university. My current research focuses on mixedness in Red Sea cities, particularly in Yemen, the Hijaz, and Djibouti, where I explore urban mixity through the spatial anchoring of diasporas and minorities in Ottoman port cities.
Travaux sélectionnés
- (2026) Forthcoming “The Habsburgs, witnesses of Tunis’ consular district”, Habsburg in Tunis, Opstelten, Bram (ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter.
- (2025) "Antiquarisme, esprit des Lumières et diplomatie dans le Tunis ottoman. La société consulaire et l’émergence de l’archéologie nord-africaine au XVIIIe siècle". Études sur le XVIIIe siècle, n° 52. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. Diplomatie et Lumières - EUB
- (2025) Quand la diplomatie fait la ville. Le quartier consulaire du Tunis ottoman (XVIIe-XIXe siècles). Collection Histoire, n°21. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. Quand la diplomatie fait la ville - EUB
- (2022) "Médecin du prince et primus inter pares. Médecins et agents d’influence à la Cour du Bardo dans la Tunis husseinite (1757-1881)", Cahiers de la Méditerranée, Nice, Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine. Numéro du mois de Juin 2022.
- (2022) “Tunis, ville double : le quartier consulaire médiéval comme prémices de la ville européenne”, Kervan. International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies, 26: 335-363. Turin: The University of Turin.
- (2022) “The protection of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia. Community responses and institutional questioning.”, The Journal of the British Academy, In Jansen S. & Kelly T. (eds), Protecting survivors of torture and ill treatment: dignity, violence and human rights in poor communities, 10/3: 145-165. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- (2022) avec Ahlam Chemlali, "Ne rien faire et ne rien laisser faire. Les enjeux de la non-politique migratoire tunisienne", Revue tunisienne d’études politiques, 7(1), 81-105.
