The goal of this study was to discover the actual changes in Tunisian women's perception of their role in the family and society through an examination of literary works, in Arabic, of contemporary Tunisian women writers. The study traced the development of the expression of Tun…
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During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Muslim North Africans were French colonial subjects and started to become a sizable minority in France. A few thousand in the first decade, France brought over 300,000 of them to Europe as soldiers and workers during World …
How do social media contribute to groups engaged in contentious politics within a domestic environment? While many have examined the influence of social media on the Arab revolutions of 2010-2011 from an international perspective, there are fewer studies examining the impact of …
This thesis aims to determine if variation or changes can be identified in animal conceptualization (the relationship between humans, animals, and worship of the gods) between past cultures of North Africa, who have experienced continual direct or indirect interaction over an ex…
This study traces the development of building inscriptions in Roman North Africa, in order to understand the rich epigraphic record testifying to public construction during the reign of Diocletian. In particular, it examines the role of the imperial government in construction, b…
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…
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…
Most models of property rights assume they are supplied by the state on demand from society. Property rights are strong when state institutions enforce the law. The strength of state institutions in the provinces determines how well property rights will be enforced on the ground…
The 2010-2011 Jasmine Revolution brought many Tunisians who had lived their entire lives under authoritarian regime out onto the streets for the first time in protest. Tunisians of all ages and social backgrounds participated, demanding the ousting of then-dictator Zine el Abidi…
Although much attention has been paid to the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the prospects for lasting democratic change in those countries, few studies focus on the institutional choices behind one of the most important organizations in a transitioning democracy: the …
This study focuses on three major Maghreb states (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with distinct institutional, political and socioeconomic patterns. It essentially tackles the issue of technological development particularly investments, trade, human capital and patents in a social…
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…
Orientalist cultural translation remains immanent to the creation and reception of Maghrebi women's fiction. However, recent literary and cinematic texts from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia problematize and critique this dynamic. Reappropriating both the process of translation an…