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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

My fez article is out! It tells the story of the famous Ottoman felt cap - a Mediterranean story involving craftsmen of Andalusian origin, corsairs from Algiers, merchants from Alexandria, ship captains from Marseille and customers throughout empire!

Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

The proofs are ready! Watch out for my article on the early modern Ottoman fez trade, it's coming out in the next issue of Muqarnas!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

The proofs are ready! Watch out for my article on the early modern Ottoman fez trade, it's coming out in the next issue of Muqarnas!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Azzedine Alaïa et Leïla Menchari, rue de Bellechasse, Paris 1967

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

I’ve been sitting on this for a while: happy to announce I will be joining @AmherstCollege as an assistant professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought in fall 2024 (after one last year at Columbia)! Very excited about this new chapter! Please reach out if you are around!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

After seven years of hard work, I finally defended my PhD dissertation! I'm immensely grateful to my committee members: Cemal Kafadar, Malika Zeghal, @oualdi_m , and @profmarylewis . I could not have hoped for better mentors. Next step: Columbia Society of Fellows @sofheyman !

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

My grandfather was a Marxist philosophy professor in 1960s Tunisia - until Bourguiba banned him from teaching as a result of his political activism. Some of his former students put together this edition of his "intro to philo" course based on lecture notes they took in 1964!

Ceresbookshop

@ceresbookshop

2 years

محمد الكراي الماركسي الأخير Les auteurs présentent le cours (inédit) de philo du Pr Mohamed Karray (bac 1964-65, Bizerte). Ils retracent son parcours professionnel, son militantisme de Gauche et ses idées pour la promotion de la philosophie. Dispo sur

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

In Tunisia, a traditional way of saying this is "تحكي همايوني" - an interesting vestige of Ottoman provincial governance in precolonial Tunis. 🧵

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@TradosJames

4 years

It's all Greek to me aka I don't understand any of this... What do you say? 😕😕

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

In 1842, the Bey of Tunis wrote to local governors instructing them to forbid slave merchants from crossing through Tunisian territory: "if despite that, they decide to cross, all the slaves in their possession will be taken from then and made free (yuṣīrūn aḥrāran)." FO 84/427

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Albert Memmi died. In many ways he was the last thinker of the Sartre/Camus generation, the custodian of their intellectual tradition. I remember meeting him in Paris 10y ago with my father who was his publisher in Tunis. He was already an old man at the time.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

"Why does it take you so long to read Ottoman documents when you have studied Ottoman Turkish for so long?" Ottoman documents:

Kadir Purde

@kadirpurde

3 years

Allah iyiliğini versin kâtip efendi. Osmanlı'da barkod çalışması olmuş.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

My students and I decided to cancel class this week in solidarity with @SW_Columbia . Columbia's student workers deserve a fair contract! #CUonStrike

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

J'essaie péniblement d'écrire un article en français, du coup je relis Albert Memmi: "Si le bilingue colonial a l'avantage de connaître deux langues, il n'en maîtrise totalement aucune"

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Tunisia just got its first ever Oscar nomination for best international feature film! Congrats to Kaouther Ben Hania who is a *gifted* filmmaker! If you don't know her work, do yourself a favour and watch "Zaineb Hates the Snow." Can't wait to watch "The Man Who Sold His Skin"!

Variety

@Variety

3 years

#OscarNoms : International Feature Film "Another Round" (Denmark) "Better Days" (Hong Kong) "Collective" (Romania) "The Man Who Sold His Skin" (Tunisia) "Quo Vadis, Aida?" (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

I'll be speaking about my research at the Columbia Society of Fellows next Thursday. The talk will be in-person for Columbia affiliates and on Zoom for everyone else. I hope to see you there!

SOF/Heyman at Columbia University

@sofheyman

3 years

What Makes a State Sovereign? Competing Conceptions of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France and the Ottoman Empire with Youssef Ben Ismail (MESAAS) -

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

"Freedom Through Unity" - the back of Tunisia's first ever trade union card (1920s)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

"A national culture that requires the humiliation and harassment of black populations for survival does not deserve to be saved" (Statement of the Frantz Fanon Foundation on state sponsored anti-black racism in Tunisia)

Selim Kharrat

@Selim_

1 year

"Une culture nationale dont la survie exige l’humiliation, le harcèlement et la traque des populations noires ne mérite pas d’être sauvée". Communiqué de la Fondation Frantz Fanon sur la #Tunisie

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Portrait(s?) of Tolstoy scribbled by a Tunisian student (probably from the Madrasa Sadiqiyya, around 1915) in a copy of Muhammad al-Mashirqi's 1911 study of Tolstoy, which includes a full translation of The Power of Darkness

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

11 months

It made it to New York! Thrilled to be part of this fantastic edited volume. An essential read. Un grand merci à @ArthurAsseraf et à @Singaravelou_P pour leur travail. (My short essay involves French soldiers stealing Ottoman manuscripts during the conquest of Algeria.)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Ceux qui ont grandi à Tunis connaissent le cri des vendeurs ambulants de vêtements de seconde main ("rouba vikya"/ "roba vecchia"). Cet enregistrement révèle la grande richesse du paysage sonore (musical?) de la ville dans les années 20. Une histoire aurale à écrire.

Thomas Henry

@ceints2bakelite

4 years

L'ambiance sonore des rues de Tunis à la fin des années 1920 à travers les cris de ses marchands ambulants, parodiés ici par l'humoriste Kaddour Ben Nitram. A écouter dans @GallicaBnF => Poke @chrisilver1 @vintagearabe @anas_g

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

I come from a family of publishers. We've been present at the National Book Fair every year since its creation: decades of dictatorship, Bourguiba, Ben Ali, Islamist rule...I've never seen police/military presence on site. PS: ask any publisher, the best years were 2011-2013

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Au début du film À Bout de Souffle, Michel Poiccard demande "un direct" au garçon de café qui file le lui préparer. Le terme est tombé en désuétude en France mais au Maghreb, si vous demandez un direct, on vous sert encore le même café au lait qu'à Belmondo!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

Aujourd'hui c'est l'excellent @lerpesse qui nous fournit en information très sérieuse. Mais il y a cent ans, la presse satirique connaissait déjà un grand succès à Tunis. L'un des journaux les plus populaires du genre avait pour titre Jha (جحا), fondé en 1909 #thread

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Mahboubine, the small village where my family is from on the island of Djerba, in an Istanbul court register from 1653.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

Chers amis occidentaux bien intentionnés qui déclarent avec admiration que ce qui se passe en Tunisie est "extraordinaire" et que "la révolution viendra de chez vous" (oui, mes amis sont de gauche): non, la révolution c'est vous qui devez la faire. Je m'explique. #Thread .

EU Economy & Finance

@ecfin

5 years

🇹🇳🇪🇺 The @EU_Commission , on behalf of the EU, has approved today the disbursement of a €150 million loan to Tunisia. This follows the completion of an important set of policy measures intended to support the country's economic transition. Read more 👉

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

In Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno writes that "to those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home." I really think Albert Memmi's life shows how much truth there is in that statement. Through his writings, he built a home for himself and for thousands of Tunisian Jews

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

If you haven’t seen already, go watch The Power on Amazon Prime Video ( @ThePoweronPrime ) and watch out for my sister, the absolutely brilliant Amina Ben Ismaïl, in episode 4!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

With my colleagues at @hgsuuaw , we are striking in order to secure fair pay, comprehensive healthcare, and protections against discrimination & harassment. Harvard has a $40 billion endowment, its workers deserve a fair contract. #HGSUStrike

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Confinés en Tunisie: la librairie en ligne @ceresbookshop propose des livres neufs et d'occasion avec livraison à domicile (rapide et gratuite sur Tunis). Paiement en ligne ou à la livraison (avec précautions sanitaires). Soljenitsyne à cinq dinars, Flaubert à huit :)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Was Algeria "still" Ottoman in the nineteenth century? A visual response from Lalla Hadria Museum in Djerba

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

In 1837, France invaded the Algerian city of Constantine. Its ruler, Ahmed Bey, fought bravely against the invasion. French troops plundered his palace. This Ottoman-Arabic treatise was among the manuscripts stolen from his library. Today, it is housed at the B.N.F. in Paris.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

In awe of my dear friend @ChaimaB speaking up about the real life implications of Kais Saied's anti-black racism in Tunisia. Despite the wave of arrests against journalists and activists, despite police intimidation, despite fear, there are still people fighting.

10Millions2Po

@10Millions2Po

2 years

Grande estime pour @ChaimaB et sa voix libre,engagée et courageuse dans ce vacarme.Bravo madame✊🏼 Nos médias ne sont pas tous médiocres.Tous les jours,y'a des hommes et des femmes qui se battent pour maintenir l'un des derniers acquis qui nous reste de la révolution.Force à vous!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

If you are taking classes at Columbia in the spring, please consider taking my seminar: "Islam and the Politics of Modernity." It explores the intellectual history of the islam & politics dyad. @ColumbiaMEI @sofheyman (Art: Ardeshir Mohasses in Jalal Al-e-Ahmad's Occidentosis)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

I just spent two weeks in Sidi Bou Said while visiting family in Tunis. It is full of tourists and schoolchildren but it remains as breathtaking as ever. It must have been magical in the 60s, when it was home to poets like Garmadi and painters like Dhahak and Ben Abdallah.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

If you are in Tunis next week, don’t miss this fantastic event featuring my dear friend, anthropologist and filmmaker Margaux Fitoussi (in conversation with @aomar_boum )!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

Fascinating little Maltese poem (علاش). This is immediately intelligible to Tunisian dārija speakers - both the language of the poem and the cultural anxieties expressed in it. Loosely related: this eponymous 1970s Tunisian funk song:

Carthago - Alech

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Belated Antiquity

@afzaque

5 years

Maltese is just so fascinating! A rich guide to the language, and the country's sense of itself, is the bilingual volume of poems by Don Carmelo "Dun Karm" Psaila (1871–1961), translated by A.J. Arberry, the Arabist. It opens with this literary manifesto: "why?" (għaliex = ع ليش)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

11 months

I'll be speaking about my research on Ottoman autonomy and the politics of history at @sofheyman next Thursday (10/12). Please come if you are in New York! The talk will also be on Zoom and is open to all (just register on the link if interested):

Whatever Happened to Ottoman Autonomy? Imperial Confrontation, Archival Dissonance, Epistemic…

The Society of Fellows hosts the Thursday Lecture Series (TLS), which runs regularly throughout the academic year. The Fall Semester TLS, our Fellows present…

sofheyman.org

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

This is beautiful. Few people think of Tunis when they think of Ibn Arabi, though he lived and studied there for quite some time. Next time you are in the Tunis medina, stand on Sidi Ben Arous street and walk towards the Zaytuna minaret. You are probably walking in his footsteps

Yasmine Seale

@yasmineseale

3 years

A text on beauty by Ibn Arabi reduced to its tashkil — the diacritical marks which sit above and below Arabic letters — by the Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

This is so true. Writing in a foreign language (English) is a real struggle for many of us. No flowery opening vignettes, no reliance on writing "style" - all you can strive for is analytical clarity, grammatical correctness, and a decent use of punctuation.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

This is simply a fact! When a historian of Egypt makes a -very accurate!- statement like this one about Tunisian mlukhiyya, they deserve a retweet :)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

I find this manuscript particularly beautiful - not just because it is in the Maghribī script (my favorite). It was copied in the Zaytūna Mosque in Tunis in 1290/1873 by a man named al-Ḥāj Yūsuf b. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad al-Maghribī, who dedicated it to his nephew ʿAbdallah.

Sabine Schmidtke

@scsincyberspace

4 years

To continue the online exhibition, today's manuscript (not from #Yemen , but copied in #Tunis ) is Ms. Naples, L'Orientale, ARA 35. Soon to be uploaded unto @visitHMML , partner of @The_IAS in #ProtectHeritage

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Jean Genet on Palestine, Pan-Arabism and "Tunisian revolutionaries" (1973)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Among the many devastating consequences of this European "re-claiming" of the Latin Mediterranean is the fact that the region's pre-Islamic past appears foreign to North Africans today. Here is Saint Augustine al-Jaza'iri, in his study in Hippo(/Annaba), by V. Carpaccio:

M Haleh

@MuriamDavis

2 years

2/ The notion of "recovering" the classical (Latin) Mediterranean had long been a pretext for colonization (along with stopping the Barbary corsairs), evident in Napoleon's invasion of Egypt or the occupation of Algeria or Mussolini in Libya.(see Juan Cole/Diana Davis).

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Today would have marked Edward Said's 87th birthday. It also marks the 68th anniversary of the start of the Algerian War of Independence. On Friday, we celebrate both with a symposium that critiques the colonial idea that 1830 was a tabula rasa in Algerian history. Join us!

Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies

@CU_SakipSabanci

2 years

A reminder that "Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1830," in collaboration with ( @sofheyman ) is happening next Friday, November 4! The event will be hosted at Buell Hall ( @Columbia_MF ), from 2:00-6:00 PM (EST). Look for more updates during the week!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

As a result, in Tunis, the word "imperial" (همايون) came to be associated with the incomprehensible language of the sultan's edicts, Ottoman Turkish, and the phrase تحكي همايوني became synonymous with "what you are saying is Greek to me"!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Encryption table used by the Tunisian government during Khayr al-Dīn Pasha's mission to Istanbul in 1864. "France" = "Ibrāhīm" "The Sublime Porte" = "al-Ḥabīb" "Tunis" = "Liverpool" ( @LFC )!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

Hélé Béji commet un livre de plus: nostalgie de la colonisation, éloge de la dictature et angoisse vis à vis de ceux qu'elle qualifie à demi-mot de "sauvages" - en voici quelques extraits. Une question s'impose: @Gallimard / @TractsGallimard comment osez-vous publier ce torchon?

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Très heureux d’avoir contribué un petit texte à ce bel ouvrage collectif. Un livre important. Hâte de l’avoir entre les mains !

Arthur Asseraf

@ArthurAsseraf

1 year

Comment la colonisation française fabrique-t-elle notre présent? J'ai l'immense plaisir de vous annoncer ce livre COLONISATIONS: NOTRE HISTOIRE où nous avons rassemblé + de 200 auteurs pour réfléchir ensemble On ne pourra plus dire qu'on ne savait pas 15/09 chez @EditionsduSeuil

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Honored to be part of this event on Ottoman Tunis at Columbia @CU_SakipSabanci with two of my favorite historians: M'hamed Oualdi ( @oualdi_m ) and Julia Clancy-Smith.

Columbia Global Center Istanbul

@CGCIstanbul

2 years

Join us Friday for a discussion, titled "What Can Tunisian History Teach Us About the #OttomanEmpire ?" 🔗 ⏰12 pm NYC | 7 pm Istanbul In partnership w/ @CU_SakipSabanci @CGCTunis @CGCParisCenter @oualdi_m @ahmettuncsen #tunisianhistory #tunis #ottoman

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

This brightened my day: a copy of @arablit 's latest issue featuring @annygaul 's wonderful essay on the history of couscous. An absolute gem! Not to mention the two recipes at the end of the piece...one from Libya and the other from medieval al-Andalus!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Tunisian women protesting outside the seat of the French colonial administration –now the French embassy– over rising cost of living (ca. 1940) Source: Report of the Tunisian Communist Party, 1948 ()

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Two Mediterranean artists: Rachid Koraichi, 2021 / Carla Accardi, 1960

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

This week the Tunisian government decided that this year's JCC (one of the Arab/African world's leading film festivals) would only feature Tunisian films. Over the last 50y, the JCC's Tanit d'Or went to the likes of Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo, Youssef Chahine, Michel Khleifi...🧵

Samy M.

@samym_m

1 year

Dans l'idée de "renforcer notre fidélité à l'esprit de Tahar Cheria, le fondateur des Journées cinématographiques de Carthage", le ministère de la Culture a décidé aujourd'hui de consacrer la session de 2023 exclusivement au cinéma tunisien ! Une première en 57 ans. #ExitAfrica

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

For the 60th anniversary of 1962...we want to rethink 1830! Mark your calendars for our exciting symposium: "Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1830," November 4 at Columbia University. @CU_SakipSabanci @sofheyman @Columbia_MF

Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies

@CU_SakipSabanci

2 years

The #SakipSabanciCenter is proud to be sponsoring "Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1830," in collaboration with @sofheyman and @Columbia_MF ! The event will be held of November 4, from 2:00-6:00 PM (EST), and will feature a number of prominent scholars on this topic.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

9 months

النشرة التونسية من كتاب رشيد الخالدي "حرب المئة عام على فلسطين" عن دار سراس للنشر متوفرة الآن على موقع @ceresbookshop

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Starting in 15min at @sofheyman (in person and on Zoom)!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Pretty sure this makes me the El Manar Professor in Tunisian Studies?

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Late 18th/early 19th c. Algerian qur'an manuscript housed in Columbia library. Apparently it was housed in the Biskra mosque for the first century of French colonial rule. Link:

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

8 years

When the CIA detains and tortures Tunisian citizens for more than a decade with no charges:

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

8 years

Two recently released Guantanamo detainees describe new forms of CIA torture from their early days in detention.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Au Palais Kheireddine, à Tunis, on expose en ce moment l'oeuvre du photographe juif tunisien Jacques Pérez. En arrivant à l'expo, on est accueilli par un vieux texte de Mohamed Ben Smail, son éditeur d'il y a quarante ans.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

The most beautiful thing you will see all week (from Chester Beatty MS T 447, via @mcburney_nick ) توكلت بمغفرة ذو الرحمة هو القيوم المهيمن

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

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I watched Med Hondo's "Soleil Ô" (1970) for the first time yesterday, what a remarkable film. Elegant, ironic, didactic, with nods to Pontecorvo and Rouch, a critique of the 68 movement ("cours, cours camarade") and an exploration of fanonian ideas about madness & colonialism.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

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@RimaHas Tout mon soutien. Vous n’êtes pas seule face à cette violence.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

La pluie empêchant un combat entre Romains et Carthaginois (Tite-Live, Histoire romaine. Manuscrit, vers 1370. Ms. 777, f. 244)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

Ce livre n'aurait pas été possible en Tunisie avant 2011. La dictature avait ses "historiens" et la nation son "récit". Pour écrire sur le mouvement national, il fallait trouver un éditeur en France. Un livre important, publié en Tunisie par un historien tunisien @oualdi_m

Ceresbookshop

@ceresbookshop

2 years

VIENT DE PARAÎTRE Un livre important. Quel fut l’objet véritable des affrontements entre Tunisiens, en 55-56, au tournant de l’indépendance ? L’auteur est Prof. des Univ. à Sc. Po Paris, a enseigné l’hist. du Maghreb à Princeton U. Dispo sur @oualdi_m

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

@samym_m shared this quote from Camus' preface to La Statue de Sel: "Voici un écrivain français de Tunisie qui n'est ni français ni tunisien (...) Que sera-t-il donc pour finir? On serait tenté de dire un écrivain." That is probably the best way to think about Memmi, as a writer

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

I just finished reading a book that had been lying around the house for some time now: Jean Duvignaud's "Chebika" (1968). It's an ethnographic study of a rural berber oasis/village on the Tunisian-Algerian border in the decade following Tunisia's independence in 1956.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Cette lettre étonnante découverte par le projet @GenizaLab dirigé par @mrustow révèle l'existence d'une communauté juive à Gafsa dans le premier quart du 11e siècle. Thread à lire absolument! Il s'agit d'un document d'époque Ziride (972-1148), Sidi Mehrez habitait alors à Tunis.

Marina Rustow

@mrustow

3 years

Total Request Geniza for your Tuesday: @GenizaLab has discovered the earliest mention of Jews in Gafsa by more than a century! Bonus: mention of a local Zirid official. @Youssefbens

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

9 years

"j'habite donc une vaste pensée mais le plus souvent je préfère me confiner dans la plus petite de mes idées" #C ésaire toujours pertinent

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

This! It also complicates our understanding of what it means to belong to an empire: autonomy, provinciality, sovereignty, etc. We still lack the analytical categories to make sense of these arrangements, so we resort to the language of "semi" and "proto" and "quasi"...

Vefa Erginbas

@VefaErginbas

3 years

The more I learn about the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century, the more I realize I do not know enough. All kinds of local/semi-autonomous forces are complicating our understanding of what really was happening from Serbia to Anatolia to the Arab provinces.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

9 years

Il y a quelques mois, Ibrahim Maalouf transformait "Alice au Pays des Merveilles" en opéra hip hop avec @oxmopuccino : http://t.co/5XoQ6KR2NV

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

2 years

TOMORROW! I'll be speaking about my research at the Columbia Society of Fellows @sofheyman . The talk will also be on Zoom and is open to all (just register below if interested). I'd love to see you there!

CU History Department

@CUHistoryDept

2 years

Event alert! Thursday, 12:15pm at @sofheyman "Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa” @Youssefbens

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

Hommes tunisiens, #Enazeda nous concerne aussi. Définissons nos responsabilités (et leur vocabulaire): comment être un allié (حليف)? Comment désapprendre les mots du patriarcat (كلام نساء، رجولية)? Comment mettre nos privilèges (امتيازات) au service de la cause?

Nessryne J

@sasoukee

5 years

Tt le monde devra assumer de quel côté il/elle s’est tenu.e. face à l'injsutice réelle que sont les lois du silence, du tabou, de la culpabilisation, de la re-victimisation et de l'opression exercée. Et je ne suis même pas désolée pour les dommages collatéraux potentiels.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Wonderful depiction of 17th c. North African pilgrims on their way to Mecca. If I had to guess I would say they were Moroccan: stripes on their burnus + the men are not wearing fezzes. Also, someone should write a Michel Pastoureau style history of early modern stripes in MENA!

Dženita Karić

@DzenitaKaric

4 years

North African pilgrims from Safi ibn Vali's Anis al-Hujjaj (Khalili Collections, 1677-1680). His own pilgrimage was supported by Zib al-Nisa, a poet and a daughter of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Look at the cheerful stride of the camel on the left!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

This was a delightful conversation @DarBenGacem around four historical itineraries designed by art historian + architect Iheb Guermazi. They offer four fascinating ways to discover and engage with the urban landscape of Tunis. The project is curated by @clustercairo .

wildtunis

@wildtunis

3 years

Its always a good idea to assist to a debate with @Youssefbens

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

More worrying signs at the Tunisian National Book Fair today: The police seized a book titled "Corruption and the Failing State" on the dubious grounds that "it hadn't been declared." The confiscation was overturned after publishers complained. 2005 is this you? #BenAli

Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

I come from a family of publishers. We've been present at the National Book Fair every year since its creation: decades of dictatorship, Bourguiba, Ben Ali, Islamist rule...I've never seen police/military presence on site. PS: ask any publisher, the best years were 2011-2013

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

6 months

Please join us at @sofheyman this coming Thursday at 12:00pm for a lecture by @thaqafatalhind (registration link below👇)

Esmat Elhalaby

@thaqafatalhind

6 months

next week in nyc

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

La nouvelle affiche des Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage 2021. Hommage à Hend Sabry dans Les Silences du Palais, une merveille !

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Where exactly does torturing jailed opposition members fall on the hinged-unhinged spectrum?

Steven A. Cook

@stevenacook

4 years

Mubarak and Ben Ali were never this unhinged...

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

En Tunisie, on considère souvent Sfax comme la capitale de l'huile d'olive. Pourtant, historiquement c'est Sousse et sa région qui dominent le marché régional. Au 17e siècle, son port exporte des centaines de litres chaque année vers Marseille, Livourne, Izmir, Alexandrie #thread

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

When and how did red become the universal color of teacher corrections and how many generations of students has it traumatized since then? 😅 #Pastoureau

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Very much looking forward to hosting @MuriamDavis at @sofheyman on Thursday (3/9) for our lecture series on "Failure"! If you are in New York please make sure to register and come! If you are away, the lecture will also be live on Zoom

M Haleh

@MuriamDavis

1 year

New Yorkers 🍎! Around this time next week I'll be in your lovely city talking about my book 📔(and the "failure" of colonial development in 🇩🇿) at Columbia ( @sofheyman ). I'd love to see you 🙂

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

The one and only @annygaul is teaching a wonderful course on MENA culinary history at Tufts! On Friday, she invited me to make Tunisian couscous with her students. We talked about Maghrebi couscous varieties, medieval uses of the word تسقية, and my grandma's secret recipe :)

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

A wonderful thread! Ohanessian's story is somewhat reminiscent of the Chemla family: Jewish Tunisian ceramics artists in late Ottoman and French colonial Tunis. Historian Lucette Valensi has written a good deal about them.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

I teach Advanced Arabic to American students. Kais Saied is a bad presidential candidate but his #MounatharaTN2019 speeches are amazing fus7a listening exercises for my students😂 #TnElection #TunisiaVotes

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

11 months

This piece on R. E. Koçu is so wonderful. I first encountered his Istanbul encyclopedia when writing about the cultural history of the fez (he has a beautiful entry about it in vol. 10). It is truly impossible to open a volume and not spend hours lost in Koçu's worlds/words

The New York Review of Books

@nybooks

11 months

Kaya Genç on an idiosyncratic, ever-expanding, unfinished encyclopedia of Istanbul

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

Happening now @HarvardCMES : @oualdi_m 's fascinating talk on the history of women in the Ottoman households of colonial Tunisia!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

My grandfather's native language

Massinissa N’Aït Bouycef

@MGaraoun

3 years

Je viens de réaliser cette vidéo (à partir d'une déjà existante) sur l'amazigh de #Djerba (Tunisie), en ajoutant les sous-titres et un lexique de cette langue. Dites-moi ce que vous en pensez, et longue vie au #Ddwi #Jerbi .

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

These are all beautiful, but this sleeve in particular is extraordinary because of its quintessentially Maghribī typography: notice the way the fā' is dotted in "Pacific" or the small hook at the foot of the 'alif. This is pure 1970s North African elegance!

Thomas Henry

@ceints2bakelite

4 years

Some beautiful North African 78 rpm record sleeves from my collection.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

1 year

Tunis, 1980. Nizar Qabbani reads a poem addressed to Tunisia: "My Arabness exhausts me, dear friend" (أنا يا صديقة متعب بعروبتي). A sublime poem, lucid, disenchanted, he nevertheless finds it in his heart to ask: هل في العيون التونسية شاطئ ترتاح فوق رماله الأعصاب؟

Yasmine Seale

@yasmineseale

1 year

Nizar Qabbani was born 100 years ago today. Damascene, poet, feminist, cook, lifelong romantic and rebel. Here we are on my first birthday. For my second he gave me a poem about heartbreak, written out in his neat hand on pink paper. Here’s a translation:

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

This is a copy of Ibn Khaldūn's Kitāb al-ʿIbar (which includes the Muqaddima) from 1389. This manuscript contains an endowment document (taḥbīs) to the benefit of al-Qarawiyyīn in Morocco. It is signed by Ibn Khaldūn himself - a scholar gifting his book to a university library.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

I don't like to use twitter as a political platform (prefer other venues/means to do that), but if any of my followers want to understand the nuances of the current political situation in Tunisia, this thread says it all.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

It's been a month since I noticed, and I still can't unsee the fact that 19th c. Tunisian scholar Muhammad Bayram al-Khāmis looks exactly like Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

This is the most accurate take on Tunisian politics I've seen in a while

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

The Man Who Sold His Skin didn't win the the Oscar. But it's still a powerful film directed by a brilliant Tunisian filmmaker (Kaouther Ben Hania) and carried by the outstanding performance of Syria's Yahya Mahayni. It's on Amazon Prime. Watch it!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

5 years

@EU_Commission Certains disent "oui mais un prêt, ça implique forcément des conditions de remboursement" - oui: un taux d'intérêt, des délais, etc, mais pas l'adoption d' une politique économique pensée par des étrangers à Bruxelles! Nous sommes une démocratie, nos gouvernants sont légitimes!

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

@Faiyla Yes, Youssef, and it is very frustrating to see this trend thrive in Tunisian academia. It is particularly popular among "anti-Islamist" historians. Very unfortunate.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Anouar Brahem's 2014 performance of "Halfaouine" at the Roman Amphitheater in Carthage is sublime. Consider this moment in particular (1:37) - a moment of سهل ممتنع

Anouar Brahem "Halfaouine" Live in Carthage - 2014

You're watching "Halfaouine" by Anouar Brahem live at the Roman Theatre, Carthage, Tunisia – 10.07.2014 Anouar Brahem: Oud François Couturier: PianoKlaus Ges...

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

4 years

Piles of books filled his small Parisian apartment from floor to ceiling. There was nothing particularly aesthetic about it, they were not "arranged" in any way - they were working tools rather than items of decoration.

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

@qrt_hdsty Nice! Do any of these count? مخمخ (to eat with pleasure) كسكس (to sieve) تكتك (to strategize, to plot) قلقل (to gossip) خشخش (to fry [of a sound])

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Youssef Ben Ismail يوسف بن إسماعيل

@Youssefbens

3 years

@ahmettuncsen I was taught these rules by my teacher (himself a student of Şinasi Tekin) when I took my first Ottoman Turkish class at Harvard. Passed them on to my students when I taught it at the University of Tunis - and the silsila goes on...

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