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Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

✍ Scribed by Safwan M. Masri; Lisa Anderson

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
414
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Safwan M. Masri explores the factors that have shaped Tunisia's exceptional experience, arguing that its history of reformism set it on a separate trajectory from the rest of the region. Based on interviews with experts, leaders, activists, and citizens, Masri's account is critical for understanding not only Tunisia but also the broader Arab world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Maps
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
I. TUNISIAN SPRING: TIMELINE OF TUNISIA’S REVOLUTION
1. Can Tunisia Serve as a Model?
2. Prelude to Revolution
3. If the People Will to Live
4. A Remarkable Transition
5. The Morning After
II. ROOTS OF TUNISIAN IDENTITY
6. Carthage
7. Tunisian Islam
8. Influencing Rivalries
9. The Age of Modern Reform
10. 1956
III. L’ÉCOLE, LA FEMME, ET β€œLAÏCITÉ”
11. The Father of Tunisia
12. Putting Religion in Its Place
13. Educating a Nation
14. A Different Trajectory
15. The Education Paradox
Epilogue. An Arab Anomaly
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

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