ARB 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Nouri Bouzid, Habib Bourguiba
13 Mar 2017
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Mou da tlatli"s the silences of the palace (1994) * before the 7th century tunisia was a part of larger civilizations. * in the 15th century spanish muslim and jewish immigration created multiculturalism. > the catholic reconquista kicked out jews and muslims. * in the 16th century the turkish ottoman empire was built. * 1956-1987: habib bourguiba made a lot of huge achievements. * 1987-2011: zine el abidine ben ali - dictator. * 2011-present: tunisian revolution - the coming back of islamist parties. * class power relationships and sexual abuse (husband/wife; master/servant;ruler/ population - you take the sexual element and generalize it because you cannot say anything against the president or the regime) * censorship is more lenient in tunisia than in egyptians. * the political and the religious taboos are very erce. * halfaouine was a very contentious lm - it received a lot of backlash for its sexual content.
