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Hèla Yousfi

Associate professor at Paris-Dauphine University, author of a study on UGTT participation in the revolution 2011-2014, Karthala, 2015 (in French).

Books From anticolonialism to Zionism: the variations of Albert Memmi Hèla Yousfi · August 2020 The Tunisian-born writer and essayist, who died on May 22, 2020, was the author of major books on colonization such as the famous The Colonizer and the Colonized written in 1957. Albert Memmi would later be very critical of the post-independence Arab states, but silent on Israeli colonization (…)
“Civil Society” in Tunisia: the Ambivalence of a New Seat of Power Hèla Yousfi · January 2017 In 2015 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian national dialogue in recognition of the example set by civil society in that country. But there is no avoiding the fact that being regarded as a model of democracy has not enabled Tunisia to satisfy the social and economic demands of its (…)