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Today we welcome special guest (and Associate Professor in History at the University of Cambridge) Arthur Asseraf to talk about Mustapha Ben Isma\xefl, a terrifyingly ambitious twink who rose from being an illiterate street beggar to Prime Minister on the strength of the king's love for him \u2013\u2013 and whose disastrous policies helped bring an end to Tunisia's independence.\xa0\nArthur's Twitter.\nArthur's faculty page.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRamy Khouili & Daniel Levine-Spound, Article 230: A History of the Criminalization of Homosexuality in Tunisia, available online: https://article230.com/en/article-320-eng/\u2026\n\xa0\nMarcel Gandolphe, \u2018Une figure tunisienne: Mustapha ben Isma\xefl\u2019, Revue tunisienne, 144, mars-avril 1921, p.83-87 \n\xa0\nKhayr al-Din al-Tunsi, Memoirs, (ed. Mohamed-Salah Mzali and Jean Pignon), Tunis, 1971.\n\xa0\n Ibn Abi Dhiaf, Ahmad, Ithaf Ahl al-zaman bi Akhbar muluk Tunis wa 'Ahd el-Aman (\u0625\u062a\u062d\u0627\u0641 \u0623\u0647\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0645\u0644\u0648\u0643 \u062a\u0648\u0646\u0633 \u0648\u0639\u0647\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0627\u0646), (1990 edition), Tunis. \n\xa0\nJean Ganiage, Les Origines du Protectorat fran\xe7ais en Tunisie, Tunis, 1959. \n\xa0\nGuellouz, Masmoudi, Smida, Histoire g\xe9n\xe9rale de la Tunisie: t.3 les temps modernes, Tunis, 1983. \n\xa0\nKhaled el Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800, Chicago, 2005. \n\xa0\nJocelyne Dakhlia, L\u2019Empire des passions: l'arbitraire politique en Islam, Paris, 2005. \n\xa0\nKenneth Perkins, A History of Modern Tunisia, Cambridge University Press, 2014. \n\xa0\nAbdelhamid Largu\xe8che, Les Ombres de Tunis: pauvres, marginaux et minorit\xe9s aux XVIIIe et XIXe si\xe8cles, Tunis, 2000. \n\xa0\nAbdelwahab Bouhdiba, La sexualit\xe9 en islam, Paris, 1975. \n\xa0\nNizar ben Saad, Lella Kmar, le destin tourment\xe9 d\u2019une nymphe du s\xe9rail (1862-1942), Tunis. \n\xa0\nRobert Aldrich, 'Homosexuality in the French Colonies', Journal of Homosexuality, 41:3-4, 2002 \n\xa0\nJoseph Massad, Desiring Arabs, Chicago, 2007.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\xa0\n\nSirat Mustafa bin Isma'il (\u0633\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0645\u0635\u0637\u0641\u0649 \u0628\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u0645\u0627\u0639\u064a\u0644 ( edited Rashad al-Imam, Tunis, 1981\n\xa0\nOur intro and outro music are, respectively, Arpeggia Colorix, by Yann Terrien, and a tune written for us by DJ Michael Oswell Graphic Designer.