This thesis examines rhetoric used by Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki in his brief speech given on February 7th , 2014, in Tunis, Tunisia. I will recap relevant recent events in Tunisian history with a literature review offering research from other scholars before offering an…
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Since 1950, autobiographical fiction has been the preferred genre for many North African writers of French expression. Assia Djebar's and Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiographical narratives distinguish themselves from the earlier examples of the genre in that they consciously chall…
This study will take an economic historical approach to the Arab Spring in an attempt to discover why citizens across the Middle East and North Africa rose up against their respective governments and demand change. The study will focus, more specifically, on Egypt and Tunisia wh…
This research examines the revolution of 2010 in Tunisia due to thepaucity of empirical research on the subject and to resolve analytical problems that plague research on similar events. The research is based in both the cultural turn in social movement research and the state co…
Prior to the second quarter of the fifth century CE, Carthage was one of the most prosperous and populous cities in the Mediterranean. The demise of Roman rule, the Vandal conquest (c. 439 CE) and the Byzantine conquest (c. 533 CE) fueled social, political and economic change th…
This work examines the role of nostalgia in texts by Judeo-Maghrebian women writers who write retrospectively about their lives in North Africa. I study authors from Algeria (Rachel Kahn, Myriam Ben, Hélène Cixous and Annie Cohen), Tunisia (Annie Goldmann and Nine Moati), and Mo…
This thesis seeks to discover whether the glass assemblage excavated from the Yasmina Necropolis at Carthage contains evidence of glass-working. A discussion of the history of Carthage, the location of craft-working areas within the layout of the city, and the site history of th…
Equal access to educational opportunities is pivotal for the development of a state and the society it governs. Inequality in all areas of society worsens when a minority group is not given equal access to educational opportunities. This study focuses specifically on the educati…
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
In their book Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War, Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder contend that incompletely democratizing states are more prone to initiate wars than either consolidated autocratic or democratic regimes. This is because elites in democratizing…
Based on an interdisciplinary perspective and using qualitative methodology, this thesis analyzes the results of interviews with six immigrant authors, all originating from the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), who have published at least one work in Quebec. Two series of …
The goal of the thesis is to explore the representation of identity with regards to social, political and cultural construction of race in contemporary French literature and cinema. The thesis will follow a multidisciplinary approach with the use of theories from communication a…
This dissertation examines the trans-Saharan slave trade in relation to the economic and political transformations occurring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Regency of Tunis. Specifically, it documents the shifting trends of the slave trade within broader patter…
An examination of a Tunisian periodical in French, Leïla (1936-1941), published under French colonization reveals anxiety in a border zone, or middle terrain, where boundaries are tested and transgressed by Tunisian women and men in a search for new identities and a national cul…
Traditionally, Maghrebine literature in French has been categorized according to the date of publication of the works, with the effect of precluding other relevant approaches to history and criticism of this literature. Based on the concept of alienation and the presence of the …
The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting people's participation in North West rural development program in Tunisia. The review of literature on people's participation presented two competing paradigms: the liberal view and the radical view. The two paradigms are …
Ce mémoire interroge le thème de l'écartèlement identitaire dans Le Pharaon d'Albert Memmi. L'auteur, d'origine tunisienne issue de la minorité juive, mais épris d'un humanisme qui le pousse à voir l'ensemble de la société tunisienne, est tiraillé entre son idéal et le réel d'un…
In this dissertation I address the question of what accounts for the success or failure of privatization efforts in middle-income developing countries. I have looked for an answer in the context of the interaction between the central government as the major agent of the reform a…
My project proposes a revision of Modernism to account for marginal sexualities, race, and colonization in British, American, and Arabic Francophone literature. In order to make visible the "racial industry" at work in Modernism, I center my discussion on two recurrent figures: …