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Les valeureuses: cinq Tunisiennes dans l'histoire

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Elissa-Didon, l'antique fondatrice de Carthage, Aïcha Sayida Manoubia, la sainte du XIIIe siècle, Aziza Othmâna, princesse dans la Régence, Habiba Menchari, la féministe de 1929, Habiba Msika, actrice et chanteuse adulée des années 1920.

Ces cinq Valeureuses ont laissé une trace si profonde dans les mémoires tunisiennes qu'elles sont devenues des mythes.

Chacune, à sa façon, a franchi la frontière du monde où les femmes sont invisibles pour entrer dans l'Histoire. En racontant leurs vies, j'ai voulu comprendre pourquoi elles incarnent encore aujourd'hui des figures vivantes de la liberté.

222 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

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Sophie Bessis

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Sophie Bessis (Arabic: صوفي بسيس‎) is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women. A history scholar and former editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Jeune Afrique, she is currently a research associate at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris and Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation of Rights Leagues (FIDH). She has taught the political economy of development at the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne and in the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). She is a consultant for UNESCO and UNICEF, has carried out numerous missions in Africa.

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Totalement sous le charme de la plume de Sophie Bessis et de ce récit racontant la vie de ces femmes tunisiennes d'exception, bien sûr !
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