Famous Women of Tunisia
had never really interested (I humbly admit) to the position and importance of women in Tunisian society throughout history, and I could not would compete with Tunisian birth in this area.
Since my presence in this country, I always saw the older generation of Tunisian women to their husbands enough, but having more legal rights (thanks to the personal status established by Bourguiba) than European women, and what meaning strict law (facilities for divorce, custody almost automatically children, housing rights and child support without having to prove anything, etc ...)
I was when I arrived, conditioned by the on-dits "and rumors about the Europeans Women in Muslim countries, and many misconceptions by people who never set foot in Tunisia but nevertheless "knew everything about what happened here" and depicts a picture of me most frightening of the fate that awaited me once married to a Muslim. (Examples of statements of well educated people and supposedly well-informed: women have no rights there, except that of serving their husbands; they can not work, must go out veiled, do not walk alongside men in the street and made it a company headed by men: and so on ........) best
Of course, there were fortunately educated people, more open and tolerant that had offset these assertions.
But I must admit that despite everything, it is not without some anxiety that I landed in Tunisia.
Imagine my surprise to discover a very diverse society where the sexes, races, religions mingled and lived mostly in harmony, without intolerance and respect of socio-cultural beliefs of the other.
A society where, even in families living on ancestral way, the woman beneath a fairly subject to male family members, even when doing what she wanted and what she liked!
I was talking about purely patriarchal society and I discovered, on the contrary, in most families I went to a matriarchal society where ultimately it was more women who "ran" and made decisions while suggesting to men were the ones that "leaders".
I stop this digression here on my personal experience en venir enfin au sujet principal de cet article: quelques femmes célèbres de l'histoire de la Tunisie.
Depuis la révolution et les dangers que peut faire courir aux femmes un recours à l'obscurantisme des extrémistes, j'ai fait quelques recherches et je vous livre ici quelques lignes sur l'importance de certaines femmes à travers l'histoire du pays. Je n'en ai évidemment choisi que quelques-unes parmi les très nombreux exemples que nous fournit l'Histoire ancienne ou contemporaine. Et je ne parlerai d'elle qu'en quelques lignes, n'ayant pas ici la prétention d'écrire des biographies.
Entre mythologie et légende, je commencerai par Didon (Elyssa) , Phoenician who left his hometown (Tyr) and who founded Carthage in 815 BC, the local lord obtaining the grant of land by the sea, through the stratagem of cowhide.
In ancient history, we also find Kahena emblematic figure of the warrior Berber tribe after Djeraya,: one we nicknamed one of the first feminist of North Africa.
In 686, she became head of the tribes of North Africa to fight against the Umayyads and will reign over Ifriqiya (area corresponding to Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli) for 5 years.
I will not
Aziza Othmana large female figure also Tunisian, on which an article has already been posted in this blog.
I now turn to more modern times and I chose some figures that struck me with their intelligence and their commitment to the cause of women and the country.
Nebiha MILED BEN (1919-2009): Nurse and social worker who all his life was a great activist and feminist independence and founded the Union of Muslim women.
Souhayr BELHASSEN, student of Political Sciences in Tunis and then Paris, journalist and writer, great campaigner for human rights and part of the Tunisian League of Human Rights, and as such, often slammed by the country's leaders.
Sophie Bessis , from a family of Tunisian Jewish bourgeoisie. Fessor of history, she has several strings to his bow.
She was editor of Jeune Afrique. She is also Director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in Paris, Assistant Secretary of FIDH, she taught at the Sorbonne and National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations.
It is also a writer, author of several books ( Habib Bourguiba in 1988 , Women Maghreb in 1983, Arabs, women and freedom in 2007, etc. ....)
Gisele Halimi . Born in La Goulette traditionalist in a Jewish family, she became a lawyer and joined the Bar in Tunis in 1949 and then went to Paris.
fierce fighter of feminist struggle, very committed, she fights for the independence of Tunisia and Algeria.
In Paris, along with Simone de Beauvoir, the feminist movement she founded in 1971 and fought for the decriminalization of abortion and women's rights. She also writes
numerous books ( Cause women in 1973, milk the orange in 1988 Kahina in 2006 Do never resign in 2009).
Nine MOATI . Tunisian Jewish origin, she was born in Paris in 1937 but spent his childhood in Tunis.
In Paris she became a journalist for radio, then for the magazine "Elle".
She also wrote many novels, most contractor for life in Tunisia.
( My child, my mother in 1974, the Eastern in 1985 and his most famous Les Belles de Tunis in 1983 ,......)
is my modest contribution this blog "Women in Tunisia."
And I hope that these few examples of "fierce fighting" women's rights will encourage all women to Tunisian current struggle to keep their assets and their prominent place in society and fight against all obscurantism. Posted by
Since my presence in this country, I always saw the older generation of Tunisian women to their husbands enough, but having more legal rights (thanks to the personal status established by Bourguiba) than European women, and what meaning strict law (facilities for divorce, custody almost automatically children, housing rights and child support without having to prove anything, etc ...)
I was when I arrived, conditioned by the on-dits "and rumors about the Europeans Women in Muslim countries, and many misconceptions by people who never set foot in Tunisia but nevertheless "knew everything about what happened here" and depicts a picture of me most frightening of the fate that awaited me once married to a Muslim. (Examples of statements of well educated people and supposedly well-informed: women have no rights there, except that of serving their husbands; they can not work, must go out veiled, do not walk alongside men in the street and made it a company headed by men: and so on ........) best
Of course, there were fortunately educated people, more open and tolerant that had offset these assertions.
But I must admit that despite everything, it is not without some anxiety that I landed in Tunisia.
Imagine my surprise to discover a very diverse society where the sexes, races, religions mingled and lived mostly in harmony, without intolerance and respect of socio-cultural beliefs of the other.
A society where, even in families living on ancestral way, the woman beneath a fairly subject to male family members, even when doing what she wanted and what she liked!
I was talking about purely patriarchal society and I discovered, on the contrary, in most families I went to a matriarchal society where ultimately it was more women who "ran" and made decisions while suggesting to men were the ones that "leaders".
I stop this digression here on my personal experience en venir enfin au sujet principal de cet article: quelques femmes célèbres de l'histoire de la Tunisie.
Depuis la révolution et les dangers que peut faire courir aux femmes un recours à l'obscurantisme des extrémistes, j'ai fait quelques recherches et je vous livre ici quelques lignes sur l'importance de certaines femmes à travers l'histoire du pays. Je n'en ai évidemment choisi que quelques-unes parmi les très nombreux exemples que nous fournit l'Histoire ancienne ou contemporaine. Et je ne parlerai d'elle qu'en quelques lignes, n'ayant pas ici la prétention d'écrire des biographies.
Entre mythologie et légende, je commencerai par Didon (Elyssa) , Phoenician who left his hometown (Tyr) and who founded Carthage in 815 BC, the local lord obtaining the grant of land by the sea, through the stratagem of cowhide.
In ancient history, we also find Kahena emblematic figure of the warrior Berber tribe after Djeraya,: one we nicknamed one of the first feminist of North Africa.
In 686, she became head of the tribes of North Africa to fight against the Umayyads and will reign over Ifriqiya (area corresponding to Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli) for 5 years.
I will not
Aziza Othmana large female figure also Tunisian, on which an article has already been posted in this blog.
I now turn to more modern times and I chose some figures that struck me with their intelligence and their commitment to the cause of women and the country.
Nebiha MILED BEN (1919-2009): Nurse and social worker who all his life was a great activist and feminist independence and founded the Union of Muslim women.
Souhayr BELHASSEN, student of Political Sciences in Tunis and then Paris, journalist and writer, great campaigner for human rights and part of the Tunisian League of Human Rights, and as such, often slammed by the country's leaders.
Sophie Bessis , from a family of Tunisian Jewish bourgeoisie. Fessor of history, she has several strings to his bow.
She was editor of Jeune Afrique. She is also Director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in Paris, Assistant Secretary of FIDH, she taught at the Sorbonne and National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations.
It is also a writer, author of several books ( Habib Bourguiba in 1988 , Women Maghreb in 1983, Arabs, women and freedom in 2007, etc. ....)
Gisele Halimi . Born in La Goulette traditionalist in a Jewish family, she became a lawyer and joined the Bar in Tunis in 1949 and then went to Paris.
fierce fighter of feminist struggle, very committed, she fights for the independence of Tunisia and Algeria.
In Paris, along with Simone de Beauvoir, the feminist movement she founded in 1971 and fought for the decriminalization of abortion and women's rights. She also writes
numerous books ( Cause women in 1973, milk the orange in 1988 Kahina in 2006 Do never resign in 2009).
Nine MOATI . Tunisian Jewish origin, she was born in Paris in 1937 but spent his childhood in Tunis.
In Paris she became a journalist for radio, then for the magazine "Elle".
She also wrote many novels, most contractor for life in Tunisia.
( My child, my mother in 1974, the Eastern in 1985 and his most famous Les Belles de Tunis in 1983 ,......)
is my modest contribution this blog "Women in Tunisia."
And I hope that these few examples of "fierce fighting" women's rights will encourage all women to Tunisian current struggle to keep their assets and their prominent place in society and fight against all obscurantism. Posted by
