Ben Ali : “Je suis un Jaruzelsky qui a réussi”

Monsieur le Président, quel est votre jour le plus glorieux ? Zine Ben Ali : Le 7 novembre 1987, lorsque je fus investi président de la République avec seulement un bac moins 3. J’en connais d’autres qui auraient fait Polytechnique ou l’ENA. Voyez-vous, tout cela ne sert à rien. – Votre jour le plus beau ? Z.B.A. : Tous les jours sont aussi beaux dep […].

Un après-midi de chien sur TUNeZINE.

Le rideau se lève sur le forum de TUNeZINE. Un après-midi de chien. 18 visiteurs en ligne, selon le compteur du forum (on dit qu’il est bloqué depuis le départ précipité du technicien). Maussade et enragé depuis sa sortie de prison, un bref séjour qui lui a coûté son satire, s’adressant à son oncle, le juge rebelle, l’auteur de la fameuse lettre exploité […].

Du narcissisme des dictateurs à la folie des grandeurs

La folie des grandeurs – d’après René Magritte Le narcissisme est un trouble psychiatrique caractérisé par une surestimation de soi et de ses capacités, un sentiment d’être unique, un besoin d’être reconnu comme exceptionnel et une critique mal vécue. Tous ces défauts on les rencontre chez Ben Ali, Kaddafi, Moubarek, Bush, Sharon, Castro, Poutine, on le […].

Whither Political Islam?

Thinking of modern jihad as simply a cultural extension of Islam is a common, and unfortunate, mistake. Two new books by Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy offer better historical and sociological explanations, but they are only a start. The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. By Gilles Kepel. Cambridge: Belknap, 2004, 336 pp. $23.95. Globalized Islam: […].

Give us back our democracy

In a speech in the Senate on 19 March, the first day of war against Iraq, Robert Byrd, the Democrat Senator from West Virginia, asked: ’What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our […].

Beyond Jihad Vs. McWorld

The terrorist attacks of September 11 did without a doubt change the world forever, but they failed to change the ideological viewpoint of either the left or the right in any significant way. The terrorist attacks of September 11 did without a doubt change the world forever, but they failed to change the ideological viewpoint of either the left or the ri […].

The freedom of thought and religion in Islam -III-

The critical review of the deniers of freedom of thought and religion would require a long time and can not be paid to just in this article. In the time that we have among the various judgments we would pay to three famous judgments that deal with freedom of religion and thought and we believe that these three are the most important concerning this area. […].

The freedom of thought and religion in Islam -II-

In this section we are to first present the religious proof of the freedom of religion and thought in religion and second critic the mentioned evidence of the deniers of the freedom of religion and thought. Before paying to this important subject we would first answer this introductory question that if freedom is the base in religion and thought and denyi […].

The freedom of thought and religion in Islam – I-

One of the assumptions in the dialogue of the civilizations is accepting the variety of ideas and religions. The civilizations are based on different cultures and different cultures have been found on the basis of various schools of thought and religions. Dialogue of civilizations and cultures is not possible without freedom of religion and thought. Firs […].

The Call for Islamic Protestantism

Dr. Hashem Aghajari, a University of Hamedan history lecturer, journalist, and active member of the reformist Islamic Revolution’s Mujahideen Organization (IRMO), is a disabled veteran of the Iran-Iraq war. In June 2002, Aghajari delivered an address commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. ’Ali Shari’ati, a prominent intellectual and one of […].

The Clash of civilizations.

This article does not argue that civilization identities will replace all other identities, that nation states will disappear, that each civilization will become a single coherent political entity, that groups within a civilization will not conflict with and even fight each other. THE NEXT PATTERN OF CONFLICT World politics is entering a new phase, and […].

Global Crisis

A SMALL news item reported that Prince Walid Ibn Talal of Saudi Arabia had donated $10m to the American University of Cairo to establish a centre of American studies. The young billionaire had offered an unsolicited $10m to New York City soon after 11 September 2001, with a letter that described the gift as a tribute to New York and suggested that the Uni […].

Islamic Civil Society.

We can certainly move the present as well as the future generation towards the new Islamic civilization through setting our eyes on horizons farther away, being together with understanding and helping each other as brothers. For this to become a reality, all of us must dedicate ourselves to the realization of the “Islamic civil society in our respective co […].

« Être musulman dans le monde moderne ».

Questionnement touffu et petit essai de réponse inscrit dans l’amplitude du temps historique : comment être musulman aujourd’hui dans la modernité ? L’intellectuel tunisien Hichem Jaït, grand historien de l’Islam, corrige quelques affirmations erronées sur cette grande religion et sur son aire culturelle. Il en appelle à déconstruire un imaginaire négatif […].

Le dilemme de l’approche littéraire du Coran.

Le propos de cet article est d’examiner quelques-unes des difficultés que pose l’approche littéraire du Coran. Le propos de cet article est d’examiner quelques-unes des difficultés que pose l’approche littéraire du Coran. Cette dernière constitue un vrai défi aujourd’hui. Les éléments de base ont été déjà posés lors du débat qui s’est instauré à la fin d […].

Le sens de la nuance.

La question que les musulmans se posent avec insistance depuis un demi siècle est celle de Chakib Arsalane : pourquoi les musulmans se sont-ils attardés alors que les autres ont progressé ? Cette question renvoie en fait à une autre, tout aussi fréquemment posée : pourquoi la poussée de créativité qui a projeté les musulmans sur le devant de l’histoire s’e […].