Table of Contents

Maps Foreword Preface Introduction I. Tunisian Spring: Timeline of Tunisia's Revolution 1. Can Tunisia Serve as a Model? 2. Prelude to Revolution 3. If the People Will to Live 4. A Remarkable Transition 5. The Morning After II. Roots of Tunisian Identity 6. Carthage 7. Tunisian Islam 8. Influencing Rivalries 9. The Age of Modern Reform 10. 1956 III. L'Ecole, la Femme, et "Laicite" 11. The Father of Tunisia 12. Putting Religion in Its Place 13. Educating a Nation 14. A Different Trajectory 15. The Education Paradox Epilogue: An Arab Anomaly Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

Safwan M. Masri is Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. He holds a senior research scholar appointment at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. Previously vice dean of Columbia Business School, he earned his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1988. Masri lives in New York and Amman. Lisa Anderson is the James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and former president of the American University in Cairo. Her books include The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1820-1980 (1986) and Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Columbia, 2003).

Reviews

Safwan M. Masri offers an informed history and an astute assessment of the case of Tunisia, specifically focusing on the country's distinctive blend of modern Islam and secular democracy. He provides an extended and authoritative contemplation and a unique synthesis of the phenomenon that is Tunisia. -- Brinkley Messick, Columbia University