This study investigates the practices of religious management used by radical modernizing states, usually labeled 'secular.' The method applied is a comparative historical study of institutional and ideological practices, principally legal and educational reforms, as revealed in…
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This study is about Tunisian women's work and lives in the present era of economic neoliberalism. The focus is women in the city of Bizerte, Tunisia, both those who work in Bizerte's export processing zone (EPZ), as well as those who work outside it. This study is a qualitative …
Debate in the field of international communication has in recent years increasingly focused on the flow of news and information. Both the theory and performance of information media have received intensive attention in the West and the Third World. However, little attention seem…
Saudi Arabia has, in recent years, experienced a remarkable development in publishing, due to the expansion of education, the encouragement of writers and publications by the government, and the Islamic heritage. In this context, a National Bibliography is a vital ingredient in …
10 Years on from the Arab Spring, Tunisia is positioned to show how democracy can be successful in the Arab World. Tunisia had significant international influence on this possible success from various actors with their own agendas. This paper examine show international actors in…
Why do party systems in some new democracies feature starker divides regarding questions of national and religious identity than those of economic policy? Why do parties in these countries sometimes appear to offer such small or unclear differences regarding economic policy? Wha…
Charles Nicolle (1866-1936) was a pastorian, a Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist, director of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, philosopher of biology, and novelist. This dissertation explores the relations between these activities and the context of Third Republic France and its…
Based on the works of three postcolonial Maghrebian writers, this study focuses on different aspects of exclusion and the relevance, of current Western thinkers approaches to the role of intellectuals. While Sartre, Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu and others all provide useful categ…
The study examines Tunisian students and the role that they played in Tunisia's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. An analysis of a nationalist movement from the students' perspective, illuminates an element of society which had been neglected by scholars befor…
Women's share of the labor force has increased significantly in most regions of the developing world, including the Middle East and North Africa where women's participation levels have traditionally fallen behind those of other areas. But while the growth of female wage earners …
This study analyses the traits which link and contrast Loti, Gide, Camus and Le Clezio in their uses of the Maghrebi site in their works. It also considers how their respective views are a product of their times and how these views have evolved. More generally, it is concerned w…
A key element in urban transit planning is the ability to predict how passengers will behave for a given level of supply (i.e for a given network configuration with fixed frequencies and operating rules). This thesis presents a descriptive, dynamic model that best produces the r…
This dissertation explores modern transformations of the cultural landscape and social geography of Tunis, and their imbrication with a shift in the politics, identities, and cultural practices of the urban working class from the 1970s to the present. During this period, the ide…
Ce mémoire cherche à déterminer les enjeux et les implications de l'alliance de 215 a.C, principalement conclue par le général carthaginois Hannibal Barca et le roi Philippe V de Macédoine. À partir de la traduction critique d'une unique source, soit le serment d'Hannibal, tel q…
The purpose of this thesis is to study why North-African literature of French expression has not disappeared in the Maghreb, especially in Algeria, contrary to the predictions made by French intellectuals and by their Maghrebian counterparts at the end of the fifties, in the six…
This dissertation examines the factors that are associated with the variation in the level of democracy in Africa. More specifically, I hypothesize that the dynamic of democratization in Africa is mainly influenced by three major factors: political leadership, the Cold War/the e…
It is well-known in economic theory that economic growth is associated with the resources of labor and capital, and their efficient use. The combined effect of the latter is measured by Multifactor productivity (MFP) that plays a major role in growth. Reflecting the growth of ou…
This study analyzes the process of socioeconomic and political transformation of the Tunis Regency during the mid-nineteenth century. The main focus is on the origins and consequences of the financial crisis which shook the Regency during the 1860s leading to its bankruptcy and …