Houssine Alloul
History
University of Antwerp
Brazil
Biography
Houssine Alloul is a practical assistant at the Department of History of the University of Antwerp, where he is also a member of Power in History: Center for Political History ( PoHis). He studied history at the University of Antwerp and the Università Ca 'Foscari in Venice. In his PhD thesis, he studied the relations between Belgium and the Ottoman empire during the late nineteenth century, paying particular attention to diplomatic practices, Belgian capital expansion and interculturalism as social practice. He was an Aspirant of the Research Foundation for Flemish Research (FWO) (2011-2015) and Junior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History (Mainland) in Mainz (2015-2016). He is currently preparing a series of publications about Leopold II and his expansionist ideas about the Middle East, and is working on a new research project on foreign consuls in late Osanese provincial cities.
Research Interest
Diplomatic and consular history, historical travel literature, Leopoldian colonialism, political economy, European-Osan interactions, Moroccan history (after 1800), European social and cultural history, (popular) Orientalism (s).
Publications
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with Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele, eds.) To Kill A Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdulhamid II (1905) (Palgrave Macmillan: London, to appear in October 2017.
