Dr Arthur Asseraf

Arthur Asseraf is a historian of modern France and North Africa with particular interests in the history of colonialism, media, and race. He teaches across Modern European and World History.

His first book, Electric News in Colonial Algeria (Oxford University Press, 2019) won the Middle East Studies Book Prize by the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society. He is also the author of Le désinformateur: sur les traces de Messaoud Djebari (Fayard, 2022), and one of the coordinators of Colonisations: Notre Histoire (Seuil, 2023), a project which brought together over 260 scholars from around the world to tell the history of French colonialism and how it affects our present.

He also enjoys communicating his research in a variety of formats, from radio to creative non-fiction.