"After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty's treaties with other European powers, with some of their imperial rivals. This "indirect" form of colonization was intended t…
This book comments on the complexities of Mediterranean tourism, with contributions from researchers consultants, managers and advisors from thirteen countries.
In 2011, the Maghreb occupied a prominent place in world headlines when Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, became the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring. Events in Tunisia sparked huge and sometimes violent uprisings. Longstanding dictatorships fell in their wake. The ensuing democratic…
"Il aura fallu le déclenchement de la révolution du Jasmin, en Tunisie, pour que la narratrice se décide à écrire sur sa mère. Elle revient sur ce printemps 2007, quand, au chevet de sa maman malade, elle n'a qu'une envie : percer l'énigme de cette femme rétive aux confidences e…
"Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considifered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive lo…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Situating Regeneration: Medicine, Science, and "Modern" Bodies -- 2. Regenerating Space: Destruction and Divided Communities -- 3. Regenerating Space, Part 2: Not All Ghettoes A…
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward "modernization," and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers …
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward "modernization," and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers …
A history of the Maghreb Jews, stressing Zionist activities and emigration to the State of Israel. Ch. 2 (pp. 55-83), "Under Vichy and the Nazi-German Menace: The Jews of North Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, " deals with anti-Jewish measures (legislation, restrictions, and i…
