The book refers to the historical process which allowed the “passage of the inhabitants of this country, dominated by a foreign power, reduced to the status of subjects, divided into a mosaic of communities in struggle against each other, subjected to a traditional society and patriarchal, to that of individuals constituted as a sovereign Nation-State, actors, authors of their lives, free citizens.
“The Tunisian Revolution. A long historical work. Tunisia from 1574 to 2023″, is the title of the latest book by Professor Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, current president of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, “Beït al-Hikma”, and whose subject is the Tunisian revolution, which triggered a series of insurrections in the Arab world, which quickly fell apart due to the lack of a prior historical work.
The work will be presented on November 15, 2024, at the palace of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, “Beït al-Hikma”, by the member of the Academy and head of the department of human and social sciences, Pr Abdelhamid Henia.
Tunisian academic, economist and politician, Pr Mahmoud Ben Romdhane is also a university professor of economics. He played an active role in the Tunisian political scene, especially after the 2011 Revolution, and he held various positions in the Tunisian government. In 2015, he was appointed Minister of Transport, then Minister of Social Affairs in the first government of the IIe Republic.
The approach he adopted in “The Tunisian Revolution. A long historical work. Tunisia from 1574 to 2023” is of Tocquevillian inspiration, we read in a presenting text, because, considering that the revolution can only be understood in and through historical continuity and that it is, in its terms, as “the completion of the longest work, the sudden termination of a work on which ten generations of men had worked”.
The subtitle “Tunisia from 1574 to 2023” of the book refers to the historical process which allowed the “transition of the inhabitants of this country, dominated by a foreign power, reduced to the status of subjects, divided into a mosaic of communities in struggle against each other, subject to a traditional and patriarchal society, to that of individuals constituted as a State -Sovereign nation, actors, authors of their lives, free citizens,” we read again in the same text.
The Tunisian revolution is therefore scrutinized under the prism of this progressive realization until the advent of the Revolution in 2011 and the entry of Tunisia into a highly eventful democratic era.
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