TUNISIAN UNIVERSITY PLANS STRIPPING PROFESSOR OF EMERITUS TITLE OVER SYMPOSIUM VISIT ALONGSIDE ISRAELI ACADEMICS
May 23rd, 2023
The University of Manouba in Tunis, Tunisia, has said it will withdraw the title of emeritus professor from a historian and former dean of its faculty of arts, letters and humanities over his participation in an international academic symposium in Paris alongside Israeli academics. Habib Kazdaghli, who still teaches at the university, has told UWN he has lodged a protest with Tunisia’s ministry of higher education and scientific research.
This April 16-17 discussion on the legal and religious status of Jews during the French protectorate in Tunisia (which ...
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