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In this study, the author examines the impact of public policy changes in ownership and control of State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs) during the first privatization phase on employment relations at the firm level in Tunisia. I have used the technique of Paired t-test statistics for …

This dissertation is an in-depth ethnographic study of stambeli , a musico-therapeutic trance and spirit possession ritual whose origins are found among slaves, their descendents, and other displaced sub-Saharans in Tunis. The main purpose of the music is to heal humans by invok…

This dissertation examines the lives of Tunisian veterans who fought for the French during the First and Second World Wars. My thesis breaks new ground in that it attempts to place the story of Tunisian veterans in the wider global context of the World Wars and decolonization. E…

This study shows how Tunisia, the cross road of 3000 years of invasions and their respective cultures has given birth to a dress that reflects symbols of 'placenessness' (Hill 2005) rather than of its unique history. If browsing in the malls of Tunisia today, one would see the s…