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Saïd Bouziri
Saïd Bouziri (June 4, 1947, in Tunis – June 23, 2009, in Paris), accountant by profession, was a human rights activist who was involved in several struggles related to immigration. Biography The eldest of a family of merchants, Saïd Bouziri moved to France in 1966 as part of his studies. He studied in Lyon then in Paris. He joined a Maoist group for a while but quickly became convinced that immigrants should retain their political sovereignty and therefore found their own structures. This is what pushed him, in the context of the Six Day War of 1967 and May 68 to participate in the founding of the Palestine Committee which will become the in 1973. He also founded the Committee for the Defense of life and rights of immigrant workers. In 1972, as part of the Marcellin-Fontanet circular, an expulsion order targeted him, as well as his wife, because of his activities. He then started a hunger strike to assert his rights which had a great impact. He was supported by various pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunis
Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers) and the List of largest cities in the Arab world, eleventh-largest in the Arab world. Situated on the Gulf of Tunis, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies the Medina of Tunis, Medina, a World Heritage Site. East of the Medina, through the Sea Gate (also known as the ''Bab el Bhar'' and the ''Porte de France''), begins the modern part of the city called "Ville Nouvelle", traversed by the grand Avenue Habib Bourguiba (often referred to by media and travel guides as "the Tunisian Champs-Élysées"), where the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast to smaller, older structures. Further east by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Mauriac
Jean Marc Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French essayist, novelist and journalist. Mauriac was born in Paris, the eldest son of author François Mauriac. He was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a film critic and art critic of ''Le Figaro''. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the film adaptation of his father's novel '' Thérèse Desqueyroux''. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle. Mauriac was a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Bibliography Essays *''Introduction à une mystique de l'enfer'' (Grasset, 1938) *''Jean Cocteau ou la Vérité du mensonge'' (Odette Lieutier, 1945) *''Aimer Balzac'' (La Table Ronde, 1945) *''La Trahison d'un clerc'' (La Table Ronde, 1945) *'' Malraux ou le mal du héros'' (Grasset, 1946) *''André Breton'' (Éditions de Flore, 1949) *''Marcel Proust par lui-même'' (Collections Microcosme, "Écr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Tunis Governorate
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
