Sophie Bessis

Sophie Bessis
صوفي بسيس
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Tunis
NationalityTunisia, France
Occupation(s)journalist
historian
AwardsJovellanos International Essay Award (2005)

Sophie Bessis (Arabic: صوفي بسيس , 1947) is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women denouncing the identity imprisonment to which they are subjected.[1][citation needed] She is the recipient of the Paris Liège literary prize and was honored as Commandeur of the Order of the Republic.[2][3][4]

A history scholar and former editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Jeune Afrique, Bessis is currently a research associate at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris and Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights Leagues (FIDH). She has taught the political economy of development at the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne and in the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). She is a consultant for UNESCO and UNICEF, has carried out numerous missions in Africa.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Othmani, Ahmed; Bessis, Sophie (July 2008). Beyond Prison: The Fight to Reform Prison Systems Around the World. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-454-8.
  2. ^ "صوفي بسيس – Charbi Education" (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  3. ^ "صوفي بسيس". مرآة تونس (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Tunisian-French Feminist Sophie Bessis: Identity as Folklore - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 16 April 2023.