https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles 2025-03-25T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Robert Baduel International Arab world Tunisia dictatorship Cairn.info <p>How should we characterize the regime of Tunisian President Kais Saied since his 2021 power grab? To get a sense of what is happening “inside the country,” an edited volume provides an informed and engaged interpretation of the situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Revolutionary-Roundup https://booksandideas.net/Revolutionary-Roundup 2013-06-27T07:30:00Z text/html en Guillaume Mazeau History revolution historiography French Revolution démocratisation Tunisia <p>Why was the 2011 Tunisian revolution perceived in France as a rerun of 1789? Why did Tunisian revolutionaries identify with an “Arab Spring” couched in terms of the European revolutions of 1848? Historian Guillaume Mazeau parses these mirrored constructs and how we view and skew revolutionary temporalities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Secularism-and-State-Feminism https://booksandideas.net/Secularism-and-State-Feminism 2011-11-29T10:21:59Z text/html en Augustin Jomier Politics International feminism revolution secularism Tunisia Institut français <p>For some time, Tunisia prided itself on championing secularism and women's rights. This smokescreen concealing the regime's excesses encouraged complacency in the French political class. A reconsideration is in order, now that the Jasmine Revolution has paved the way for a legal and institutional overhaul.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Suicide-Islam-and-Politics https://booksandideas.net/Suicide-Islam-and-Politics 2011-05-06T09:48:01Z text/html en Dominique Avon International Islam religion rebellion secularization Tunisia <p>The revolts rocking the Maghreb were set off by a surge of suicides that greatly perplexed Islamic authorities. Were they a symptom of secularization, or even of a radical transgression of a Koranic prohibition?</p>