Chercheurs
Abdelaal Mostafa Ahmed Abdellatif
amostafa at ifao dot egnet dot net
Histoire afro-arabe, histoire économique et histoire du Sud global
Chercheur associé
Maître de conférences
Faculté des études supérieures africaines , Université du Caire
PhD in History, University of Cambridge
istoire économique de l’Afrique, histoire de l’industrialisation et du développement, relations économiques afro-arabes, et développement dans le Sud global
"Special Feature, (guest co-editor) with, Eric Burton, “Egypt and the Liberation Movements in Africa.” Égypte Soudan mondes arabes Journal- ESMA, CEDEJ, Cairo, Issue 26 (Forthcoming 2027).
with Eric Burton, “Pan-Africanism, Anticolonial Solidarity and Liberation Movements in the Journal Nahdatu Ifriquiah, 1957–1964.” Book Chapter in Turning the map upside down Connected Histories of Decolonization, Third Worldism, and Radical Activism, Andrea Brazzoduro (Napoli) & Damiano Matasci (Genève) editors, Forthcoming 2027 [Submitted available upon request]
with Imam, F. ""Manual for Digitization and Descriptive Metadata Construction."" In Archiving Endangered Heritage: The Nubian Legacy as a Community Archive, edited by Y. Hafez & S. El Nour. Cairo: CEDEJ & The Memory and Knowledge Center., 2026, 77 pages (Link)
“Dutch Colonial Legacy in Africa: From Colonialism to Apartheid” Qira’at Afriqiyah, Issue 64, July 2025, pp.26-39.
with Matteo Grilli, Editorial. Southern Journal for Contemporary History: 48(1), 2023, pp. 1–6. (Link)
Colonial Exploitation of the Congo Free State, 1885–1908: Economics of Rubber (in Arabic), General Egyptian Book Organization, 2020, pp. 392.
""The Impacts of the Central African Federation on Industrial Development in Northern Rhodesia, 1953–1963."" Economic History Society Annual Conference, Oxford, April 2020 (Link)
“South-south cooperation in the twenty-first century Copperbelt: Egyptian investment in Zambia’s copper value chain.” November 2018
with Nura Aliyu, “Tropical Africa and the Current Politics of Climate Change: A Historicism.” Conference Proceedings, IFRAS, Cairo University, 2015, pp. 233–250.
""ICT Technology in East Africa—Challenges & Prospective” (in Arabic), African Annual Report, Cairo University, November 2013, pp. 779–801"
with Eric Burton, “Pan-Africanism, Anticolonial Solidarity and Liberation Movements in the Journal Nahdatu Ifriquiah, 1957–1964.” Book Chapter in Turning the map upside down Connected Histories of Decolonization, Third Worldism, and Radical Activism, Andrea Brazzoduro (Napoli) & Damiano Matasci (Genève) editors, Forthcoming 2027 [Submitted available upon request]
with Imam, F. ""Manual for Digitization and Descriptive Metadata Construction."" In Archiving Endangered Heritage: The Nubian Legacy as a Community Archive, edited by Y. Hafez & S. El Nour. Cairo: CEDEJ & The Memory and Knowledge Center., 2026, 77 pages (Link)
“Dutch Colonial Legacy in Africa: From Colonialism to Apartheid” Qira’at Afriqiyah, Issue 64, July 2025, pp.26-39.
with Matteo Grilli, Editorial. Southern Journal for Contemporary History: 48(1), 2023, pp. 1–6. (Link)
Colonial Exploitation of the Congo Free State, 1885–1908: Economics of Rubber (in Arabic), General Egyptian Book Organization, 2020, pp. 392.
""The Impacts of the Central African Federation on Industrial Development in Northern Rhodesia, 1953–1963."" Economic History Society Annual Conference, Oxford, April 2020 (Link)
“South-south cooperation in the twenty-first century Copperbelt: Egyptian investment in Zambia’s copper value chain.” November 2018
with Nura Aliyu, “Tropical Africa and the Current Politics of Climate Change: A Historicism.” Conference Proceedings, IFRAS, Cairo University, 2015, pp. 233–250.
""ICT Technology in East Africa—Challenges & Prospective” (in Arabic), African Annual Report, Cairo University, November 2013, pp. 779–801"
"Invited Talks and Presentations
“Locating Egypt in the Global South, Transnational Solidarity and the Economic Independence in Africa, 1952-1970s, African Association of Political Science, Webinar, Dar- El Salam, Tanzania, October 2026.
""New Perspectives on South-Asian and Middle Eastern Connections in the 20th Century”, IFAO, Egypt (Chair- Second Panel), May 2026. (Link)
“Building Community Archives: Archival Turn and the Intellectual Transformation in Social Sciences” (in Arabic) Life in the City: Everyday Practices, Gender, Class, Memories CEDEJ / Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale Cairo (Egypt), March 29th-April 2nd, 2026 (Link)
“At the Edges of the Worlds, An Interdisciplinary Workshop,” Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich, June 2025. (Link)
“Zambia’s Industrial Development amidst Changing Regional and Global Economic Relationships, 1924-1973,” AfOx Insaka, Kellogg, University of Oxford, May 2025. (Link)
“At the Edges of the Worlds, An Interdisciplinary Workshop,” Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich, August 2024. ((Link))
“The Economic Cost of Nationalization: Egypt and Zambia Compared”, African Commission, Supreme Council of Culture, July 2023, Cairo. (Link)
“Deconstructing Centrism: Defending History without Rooting Racism,” Debates on Afrocentric, Egyptian Enterprise Center, June 2023. (Link)
With Eric Burton, ""African Renaissance"" in Cairo. Pan-Africanism, Anticolonial Solidarity and Liberation Movements in the Journal Nahdatu Ifriquiah, 1957-1964, Turning the map upside down. Connected Histories of Decolonization, Third Worldism, and Radical Activism University of Turin, May 2024 (Link).
“The Craft of Academic Writing- Workshop”, Cairo Papers in Social Science, AUC School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cairo, April 2024. (Link)
“Suez Canal and Echoes of Nationalization in Africa, 1960s–1970s,” CEDEJ, Cairo, October 2022.
Conference and Workshops Participation
Egypt’s Trading Giant: El-Nasr Trading Company in West Africa, 1958-1971, CEDEJ Tuesday Seminar November 4, 2025 (Link)
“Collusion and Elusiveness: The World Bank and the Financing of Aswan High Dam, 1952-1964,”, Workshop on Sixty Years of Diverting the Nile, 1964-2024, The Egyptian National Library and Archives, Cairo, May 2024.
“Egypt’s Trading Giant: El-Nasr Trading Company in West Africa in the 1960s,” AEHN, Pretoria, October 2023.
“Local Industrial Business and The Transformation of Export Promotion into Import Substitution in Northern Rhodesia, 1939–1953,” Summer School Tubingen, August 2022.
“Economic Change in Africa Since Independence: Flawed Nationalization,” WEHC, Paris, July 2022.
“Zambia’s industrial development amidst changing regional and global economic relationships, 1924–1973,” YSI-Paris, July 2022.
“Promoting manufacturing in Zambia: Rethinking the copper industry’s value chain, 1924–1973,” SARChI-YSI, Johannesburg, June 2022.
“Northern Rhodesia’s Industrial Development amidst Regional Competition, 1924–1938,” Advanced Seminar for Economic and Social Historians, Datini-Prato, May 2022.
“Flawed Nationalisation: Manufacturing and National Planning in Zambia’s State-Led Development, 1964–73,” ACRPS-AGSC, Doha, March 2022"
“Locating Egypt in the Global South, Transnational Solidarity and the Economic Independence in Africa, 1952-1970s, African Association of Political Science, Webinar, Dar- El Salam, Tanzania, October 2026.
""New Perspectives on South-Asian and Middle Eastern Connections in the 20th Century”, IFAO, Egypt (Chair- Second Panel), May 2026. (Link)
“Building Community Archives: Archival Turn and the Intellectual Transformation in Social Sciences” (in Arabic) Life in the City: Everyday Practices, Gender, Class, Memories CEDEJ / Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale Cairo (Egypt), March 29th-April 2nd, 2026 (Link)
“At the Edges of the Worlds, An Interdisciplinary Workshop,” Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich, June 2025. (Link)
“Zambia’s Industrial Development amidst Changing Regional and Global Economic Relationships, 1924-1973,” AfOx Insaka, Kellogg, University of Oxford, May 2025. (Link)
“At the Edges of the Worlds, An Interdisciplinary Workshop,” Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich, August 2024. ((Link))
“The Economic Cost of Nationalization: Egypt and Zambia Compared”, African Commission, Supreme Council of Culture, July 2023, Cairo. (Link)
“Deconstructing Centrism: Defending History without Rooting Racism,” Debates on Afrocentric, Egyptian Enterprise Center, June 2023. (Link)
With Eric Burton, ""African Renaissance"" in Cairo. Pan-Africanism, Anticolonial Solidarity and Liberation Movements in the Journal Nahdatu Ifriquiah, 1957-1964, Turning the map upside down. Connected Histories of Decolonization, Third Worldism, and Radical Activism University of Turin, May 2024 (Link).
“The Craft of Academic Writing- Workshop”, Cairo Papers in Social Science, AUC School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cairo, April 2024. (Link)
“Suez Canal and Echoes of Nationalization in Africa, 1960s–1970s,” CEDEJ, Cairo, October 2022.
Conference and Workshops Participation
Egypt’s Trading Giant: El-Nasr Trading Company in West Africa, 1958-1971, CEDEJ Tuesday Seminar November 4, 2025 (Link)
“Collusion and Elusiveness: The World Bank and the Financing of Aswan High Dam, 1952-1964,”, Workshop on Sixty Years of Diverting the Nile, 1964-2024, The Egyptian National Library and Archives, Cairo, May 2024.
“Egypt’s Trading Giant: El-Nasr Trading Company in West Africa in the 1960s,” AEHN, Pretoria, October 2023.
“Local Industrial Business and The Transformation of Export Promotion into Import Substitution in Northern Rhodesia, 1939–1953,” Summer School Tubingen, August 2022.
“Economic Change in Africa Since Independence: Flawed Nationalization,” WEHC, Paris, July 2022.
“Zambia’s industrial development amidst changing regional and global economic relationships, 1924–1973,” YSI-Paris, July 2022.
“Promoting manufacturing in Zambia: Rethinking the copper industry’s value chain, 1924–1973,” SARChI-YSI, Johannesburg, June 2022.
“Northern Rhodesia’s Industrial Development amidst Regional Competition, 1924–1938,” Advanced Seminar for Economic and Social Historians, Datini-Prato, May 2022.
“Flawed Nationalisation: Manufacturing and National Planning in Zambia’s State-Led Development, 1964–73,” ACRPS-AGSC, Doha, March 2022"
"Forthcoming, “Jamal Mohamed Ahmed and his Time, Pan-Africanism in Arab World”, CEDEJ Khartoum, Cairo, November 2026. (Co-organizer with Simon Conrad)
“Africa: A Year of Transformations and Challenges”, Egyptian Book Fair, Cairo, January 2026. (Co-organizer with Badawi Riad)
“Academic Writing of African History for early career scholars from MENA region”, Training Workshop, SJCH- UFS in collaboration with AfOx, June 2025. (Co-organizer with David Damtar)
“Extractive Industries, Resource Nationalisation and Economic Sovereignty: Historical Insights from the central African Copperbelt, 1920s-1970s”, International Conference of “Investment in Africa: Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Challenges of International and Regional Competition”, FAPS, Cairo University, May 2025. (Co-organizer with Badawi Riad)
“Decolonizing Money and Finance YSI Workshop in Cairo,” CEDEJ-YSI-INET, December 2023. (Co-organizer with Maylis Avaro, Atiya Husien, Peter Ulidi)
“Cape Town to Cairo: Rethinking the Historical Paths and Trajectories of African Independence”, CEDEJ-CNRS, Cairo, October 2022. (Co-organizer with Yasmine Hafez, Mahdi Labze)"
“Africa: A Year of Transformations and Challenges”, Egyptian Book Fair, Cairo, January 2026. (Co-organizer with Badawi Riad)
“Academic Writing of African History for early career scholars from MENA region”, Training Workshop, SJCH- UFS in collaboration with AfOx, June 2025. (Co-organizer with David Damtar)
“Extractive Industries, Resource Nationalisation and Economic Sovereignty: Historical Insights from the central African Copperbelt, 1920s-1970s”, International Conference of “Investment in Africa: Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Challenges of International and Regional Competition”, FAPS, Cairo University, May 2025. (Co-organizer with Badawi Riad)
“Decolonizing Money and Finance YSI Workshop in Cairo,” CEDEJ-YSI-INET, December 2023. (Co-organizer with Maylis Avaro, Atiya Husien, Peter Ulidi)
“Cape Town to Cairo: Rethinking the Historical Paths and Trajectories of African Independence”, CEDEJ-CNRS, Cairo, October 2022. (Co-organizer with Yasmine Hafez, Mahdi Labze)"
https://cedej-eg.org/ar/eap-project-nubian-legacy/ ; https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1594