This dissertation deals with the transformation of women, families, and states through family planning. The planning of the family involves more than opening up the fecund body to medical manipulation; it brings together a complex web of discourses and practices ranging from int…
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This thesis uses analytical and empirical methods to explore the relation between gender standards and democratic standards in the Maghreb, which includes Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. The analytical approach consists of considering theories that link gender standards and democ…
The main objective of this dissertation is to show that the development of a polity can be explained through the study of the emergence of national identity not only as the product of elites' conscious actions, but as the outcome of negotiations (or lack thereof) between opposin…
Qur'anic Invocations: Narrative Temporalities in Twentieth Century Maghrebi Literature investigates the dialogic relationship between literary and theological discourse in modern Arabophone and Francophone literature of the Maghreb. The novels of al-Tahir Wattar, Assia Djebar, D…
Mosaïque et mémoire studies paradigms that contribute to the construction of identity in the writings of thirteen Tunisian women novelists writing in French: Emna Bel Haj Yahia, Aïcha Chaibi, Annie Fitoussi, Behija Gaâloul, Annie Goldmann, Souad Guellouz, Jelila Hafsia, Souad Hé…
This work examines how Tunisians construct understandings of the local and global, and how these understandings are contested and manipulated. The theoretical focus is not on globalization per se, but on perceptions of globalization, using the lens of foreign language learning. …
This study examines al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious and its reception in the first half of the 6th /12th century. It argues that al-Ghazali sought to "revive" Islamic religious sciences by subordinating the "worldly sciences" of jurisprudence and theology to the "otherworl…
Government archives are at present a key factor for sustainable development for every nation. With the requirements of globalisation, Arab countries, in their majority, have to think about their government archives, neglected for a long time, in order to allow their administrati…
This dissertation investigates patriarchy and the ideological role and narrative function of the father in the Maghrebian novel in French. Contrary to the predominant scholarship which has focused on the figure of the father as a site of patriarchal oppression and perennial forc…
Dans cette thèse, nous souhaitons identifier comment l'État tunisien a-t-elle parvenu à formuler une équation équilibrée entre les concepts de la modernité et les dogmes d'un islam traditionnel et Comment l'émancipation des Tunisiennes a-t-elle été rendue possible. Les questions…
In nationalist or Islamist ideology, Islam defines itself through an identity which is homogeneous and self-enclosed. The goal of this study is to examine how the Tunisian writer Abdelwahab Meddeb draws from the margins of Islam to imagine instead an identity open to the Other a…
The goal of this dissertation is to describe the nature of syntactic constraints on intra-sentential diglossic switching between the High and the Low varieties of Arabic (Ferguson 1959) in light of Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame model (Myers-Scotton 1993a, Myers-Scotton a…
This book investigates how the externalisation of EU migration policies is implemented in Tunisia after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 through the involvement of civil society organisations. The 'democratic transition' initiated by the Tunisian Revolution led to the emer…
This book investigates how the externalisation of EU migration policies is implemented in Tunisia after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 through the involvement of civil society organisations. The 'democratic transition' initiated by the Tunisian Revolution led to the emer…