Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) is a French

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and

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. A

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of studies at the

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, her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of

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in the

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

countries bordering the

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Biography

The daughter of a French mother and a Tunisian father, Dakhlia was born in

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and brought up in Tunisia. After studying history at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, she specialized in the anthropological history of the Maghreb. She earned a doctorate at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) which she joined in 1990, later becoming a director of studies. She is on the management board of ''

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales'' is a French academic journal covering social history that was established in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. The journal gave rise to an approach to history known as the ''Annales'' School. The journ ...

'', and contributes editorially to ''Arabica'' and ''Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée''. A member of the Conseil scientifique de l'Institut d'études de l'islam, Dakhlia has coordinated studies on artistic creativity in the Islamic countries. Since 1990, Dakhlia has published several books and articles on developments in the Muslim countries and more recently has examined the effects of the

Tunisian Revolution The Tunisian Revolution, also called the Jasmine Revolution, was an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance. It included a series of street demonstrations which took place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El ...

. Dakhlia is a member of the French Unesco Committee and is a board member of the

Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem; French: ''Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée'') is a national museum located in Marseille, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), i ...

Selected works

* ''L'Oubli de la cité'', Paris, La Découverte, 1990 * ''Le Divan des Rois. Le politique et le religieux dans l'Islam'', Paris, Aubier, 1998 * ''L’empire des passions. L’arbitraire politique en Islam'', Paris, Aubier, 2005 * ''Islamicités'', Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2005 * ''Lingua franca : histoire d'une langue métisse en Méditerranée'', Arles, Actes Sud, 2008 * ''Tunisie, le pays sans bruit'', Arles, Actes Sud, 2011,Stéphanie Pouessel
« Dakhlia Jocelyne : ''Tunisie, le pays sans bruit'', Actes Sud, 2011, 128 p. »
''Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée'', n°133, juin 2013, consulté le 11 avril 2014. * ''Les musulmans dans l'histoire de l'Europe : passages et contacts en Méditerranée'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2013, * ''Les musulmans dans l'histoire de l'Europe : une intégration invisible'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2016,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dakhlia, Jocelyne 1959 births Living people Writers from Bourg-en-Bresse 20th-century French historians French women historians French anthropologists French women anthropologists French academics French women academics ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences 20th-century French women writers