French Colonization and the Transformation of Waqf-funded schooling

• In Event: Historical Approaches to the Study of Middle East Politics (Co-sponsored with Section 66: Politics & History)

Brief Overview

I use an original data set of the land contracts supporting the religious endowment system in Tunisia before and during colonization to examine how French colonization impacted the local provision of education in Tunisia.

Author

• Alexandra Domike Blackman, Cornell University