The “national – local” DIALECTIC in the Tunisian electoral laws or how to represent the “people” in post-Ben Ali Tunisia by Eric Gobe

“…By exploring the electoral techniques debated by Tunisian political actors, in order to define the conditions of a « good representation » of the « people », this article analyzes the social and political logics underlying the solutions proposed by representatives and rulers of post-Ben Ali Tunisia. …”
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Tentes et rails. Les « jeunes » du Sud tunisien entre chômage, attente et protestation by Stefano Pontiggia

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Crisi identitaria e speculazione panarabista nella Tunisia post-rivoluzionaria: che ne facciamo della tunisianità e della lingua tunisina? by Alfonso Campisi

“…Even that not correspond to the linguistic reality of the country, because classical Arabic is not spoken in Tunisia. People speaks Tunisian Arabic. So the text analyses the dangers of the article 38 about the real Tunisian identity and Tunisian language. …”
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Être correspondant régional en Tunisie : De l’aliénation au pouvoir à la liberté totale by Hamida El Bour

“…The coverage of the local events was far from the rules of the proximity journalism which is based on journalistic practice that reflect the reality of the people and their daily life problems. This paper compare between the Tunisian media coverage of the local news before and after the revolution through the experience of 16 local correspondents out of 27 working for the Tunis Afrique Presse news agency, a public media the only news house to get a correspondents network in all the regions of Tunisia since the sixties of the last century. …”
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Dynamiques socio-politiques et territorialités de l’immigration ivoirienne en Tunisie by Camille Cassarini

“…In the final section, the article interrogates the way in which these migratory strategies structure the modes of integration of these people in the Tunisian space. The examples of Tunis and Sfax are used to analyse the strategies of integration, the modes of anchoring and the new social practices of these Ivorians. …”
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De la dialectique du « local » et du « national » dans les lois électorales tunisiennes ou comment représenter le « peuple » dans la Tunisie post-Ben Ali by Eric Gobe

“…By exploring the electoral techniques debated by Tunisian political actors, in order to define the conditions of a « good representation » of the « people », this article analyzes the social and political logics underlying the solutions proposed by representatives and rulers of post-Ben Ali Tunisia. …”
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Food addiction and associated factors in newly diagnosed patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional comparison with siblings and healthy controls by Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Youssef Boukadida, Abir Hakiri, Wided Homri, Majda Cheour, Souheil Hallit

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The financial character of policing in Tunisia: collusions, extraversion and the criminalization of informality by Daniela Musina

“…Finally, the third effect considered is the disqualification and criminalisation of the informal economy, considered here through the observation of how hawala channels and exchange networks for money, good and people circulation acquire centrality to legitimize these attempts at control, whose effectiveness must be relativized, but which nevertheless have violent and disqualifying consequences for vulnerable economies at the Tunisian border and beyond. …”
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Psychometric properties of an arabic translation of the short boredom proneness scale (SBPS) in adults by Tia Khadra, Rabih Hallit, Diana Malaeb, Souheil Hallit, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Sahar Obeid

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THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF OLIVE TREE (OLEA EUROPAEA L.) IN THE NUTRITIONAL, PHARMACEUTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION: A REVIEW by Muhammad SHAFIQ, Muhammad Zafar IQBAL, Mohammad ATHAR

“…The whole parts (leaves, branches, fruit) of this plant traditionally used and cultivated for food and medicine in Europe, Mediterranean, warm temperate region, Asian, African, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tunisian regions and in different parts of Pakistan. …”
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Construire des ressources relationnelles pour franchir des frontières multiples : Trajectoires de jeunes Tunisiens by Hasnia-Sonia Missaoui

“…This article presents the results of a survey conducted between 2014 and 2016 among young adults from the Tunisian-Algerian border region of Kef. We collected several social trajectories of “unemployed graduates” a few years after the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime on January 14, 2011 in order to understand how the bubbling of democratic expression carried by powerful collective mobilization movements linked to the end of the dictatorship can influence the daily life of an age group that is particularly mediatized but invisibilized or instrumentalized by the public authorities. …”
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