... at the rules that will govern the completion of their objectives. This overall universal rule can be called “revolutionary grammars.” Yet there are aspects of the Tunisian Revolution that are not subject to any singular specific grammar, which prompts noting that this revolution, with all its contingent...

...Abdeljelil Temimi When the Tunisian Revolution began, the Temimi Foundation found itself in a new position of cultural responsibility, and this compelled us to invite the main part of the national leadership, the youth of the revolution, as well as leading figures from the diverse currents...

... independence, just like March 20, 1956 (Independence Day), or April 9, 1938. This key date will go down not only in the collective Tunisian memory, but also in the memory of the world as a turning point in modern history. Looking at what is happening in Tunisia now, one cannot help but ask how revolutions...

... proposed that what we must do immediately is gather up a selection of reflections from Tunisians engaged in the activities about the long-term significance of these events. The aim was for these accounts to be thoughtful considerations about what have been and are the immanent material conditions that have...

... contributed directly to the revolution were given the occasion to communicate the background motivations that caused them to inaugurate the revolution, as well as those fundamental demands to which they are unwaveringly dedicated. The Tunisian public will discover from this faithful transcript of the Temimi...

...Mounir Saidani We cannot yet know what the outcome will be of the Tunisian Revolution. Its beginning, on December 17, 2010, with Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation, gave birth to a genuine process of jumps, jerks, pauses, stops, starts, restarts, and waves of highs and lows. The resulting dialectic...

...Mohamed-Salah Omri The most famous slogan chanted in Tunisia in January, then in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, is a reincarnation of opening lines of the poem “The Will of Life,” written in 1933 by the Tunisian poet Abou el-Kasem Chebbi (1909–1934), which now form the closing part of Tunisia’s...

...’ laisa hum irtiḥālan,” “My Constant Wish Is They Not Be Departing”), apropos the literary and political work of twentieth-century Tunisian thinker Mahmud al-Mas‘adī. Both the flight and its exposition belong to what J. Kameron Carter and Sara Jane Cervenak call “the Black Outdoors,” invoking in part...

... participated in various collectives and published numerous articles in Tunisia in which he criticized the now deposed regime’s economic policy. He is currently a member of the Higher Tunisian Reform Commission presided over by Yadh Ben Achour, which is charged with oversee- ing constitutional...

... stations in my hometown of Kasserine, a neglected and rebellious part of the country that brought the Tunisian revolution to sharp pitch early in January of the same year. The mood was buoyant, and long queues of determined men and women had already formed. I took lots of photos to mark the moment...

... of the people, who were waving with their hands for Ben Ali to step down. The official Tunis 7 TV channel announced that the prime minister was going to deliver an important speech to the Tunisian people that evening, but the Tunisian Tunisia Dossier / Aloui...

... Khalid Said!” Tunisian president Zine al-­Abidine Ben Ali left power quickly, but in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak held on. And the longer he stayed, the stronger the people’s resistance became. The courage of their nonviolent occupation of Tahrir Square captivated a world of electronic spectators...

... education that lacks authentic and significant cultural and spiri- tual stability 7 When the young Egyptian writer Jacqueline (Shohat) Kahanoff, who was born in Cairo in 1917 to a Jewish family of Iraqi and Tunisian descent, reintroduced the term Levantinism in her writing published in Israel from...

... a historic opportunity for the moral and familial rearmament of Europe. These immigrants held out the hope of a new golden age for the old continent” (231; translation modified). The electoral victory of the French Islamist Mohamed Ben Abbès, an assimilated second-generation Tunisian, against FN leader...

..., at the Tunisian and Moroccan borders of Algeria, which the French had declared buffer zones, Fanon notes that pregnant women in particular show an anxiety in relation to the future, not being able to imagine a world for their unborn children: These refugees live in an atmosphere of permanent insecurity...

... the needed institutions. The same was true of the Tunisian effort. The American University of Beirut, which was founded in the mid–nineteenth century as the Syrian Protestant College, was an im- portant variation...

...: Movement, OK. RAJ: What I have since come to refer to in my work as restless flying, or al qalaqin I take this term from a verse in a qa da by the tenth- century 232 boundary 2 / May 2020 Abbasid poet al- Mutanabb , following Mohamed- Salah Omri s interpretation of it in conversation with the Tunisian...

... that the Tunisia Revolution should be a good beginning point and place to build the “inventory” of “general human dignity.” See the “Tunisia Dossier: The Tunisian Revolution of Dignity,” special issue of boundary 2 39, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 12. I realize that an event such as the so-­called Arab Spring named...