Arwa Labidi is a Tunisian historian. A former student at ENS Paris (International Selection), she received her PhD in contemporary history from the University of Paris Nanterre (within the Labex Pasts in the Present) in 2019. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Jendouba. She is the author of two series of historical investigations for the Tunisian media inkyfada: Gens suspects (Suspicious People) and Le Dessous des dates (Beyond The Dates).
The project
Title: "She's at least suspicious". Surveillance and imprisonment of women in the Tunisian colonial context (1911-1938)
Hosting institution: Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, au Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
Selective bibliography
2024 - “‘Le toit commençait à s’effondrer au-dessus de nous’. Sakiet Sidi Youssef, mémoire d’un bombardement”, actes de la journée d’étude "Histoire et patrimoine du Nord-Ouest aux yeux des jeunes chercheurs", ISSHJ, Publications de l’Université de Jendouba
2023 - "Making a historical series on colonial surveillance", Archives stories
2021 - “7 et 8 novembre 1911, les révoltes du Jellaz. Chronique d’une escalade meurtrière”, inkyfada, série Le Dessous des dates
2021 - “9 avril 1938. L’expression d’une colère anticoloniale”, inkyfada, série Le Dessous des dates
2021 - “ Suspect n°8 : Albert Bessis. Membre fondateur d’un comité judéo-musulman qui dérange”, inkyfada, série “Gens suspects”
2021 - “Suspect n°4 : Mokhtar El Ayari. Un traminot communiste sous surveillance”, inkyfada, série “Gens suspects”