Tunisia is regularly depicted in international medias as an « exception » in its Arab and Muslim environment. Based on sixty sociological interviews with Tunisian writers as well as with publishers,the book emphasizes the different forms of resistance Tunisian writers have opposed to the private and/or state authorities

This work deals with one of the most famous masterpieces of classical Arabic litterature: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī's Kitāb al-imtāʿ wa-l-muʾānasa. Its main purpose is to show how Tawhidi delivers a strong political message which aims at emphasizing the fact that the exercise of power cannot be disconnected from the scholar's judgment.

This book recounts the fight for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.It gives a panorama of a complex movement in which "the pen and the voice" were key weapons.