Tunisia
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Al Bawaba: Middle East Gateway. Section for each country.
All Africa News Service: Tunisia.
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Accad, Evelyne. Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (Blessures des mots) (trans. Cynthia T. Hahn; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1996).
Hamdi, Mohamed E. The Politicisation of Islam. A Case Study of Tunisia (Boulder: Westview, 2000).
__________. The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan Al-Turabi (Boulder: Westview, 1998).
King, Stephen J. Liberalization against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia (Bloomington: Indiana U., 2003).
Slyomovics, Susan (ed.) The Walled Arab City in Literature, Archtecture, & History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (Portland OR: Frank Cass, 2001).
In the Library: Fiction
Fitzroy, Arabella (pseud.) Las perlas de Sodoma no se disuelven en vino (Barcelona: Ma Non Troppo, 2002). Satirical view of gay life.
Memmi, Albert. The Pillar of Salt (La statue de sel) [1955] (Boston: Beacon, 1992).
Miller, Alex. Conditions of Faith (NY: Scribner, 2000).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Bezness" [1992], dir. Nouri Bouzid, 100m. Young man trapped between Arab tradition & prostitution in a resort town.