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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites you to:
"Slaheddine el-Amami and Tunisia’s Development Alternatives of the 1980s"
A lecture by:
Max Ajl
Senior Fellow at in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University
Researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment
Max Ajl is a Senior Fellow at in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University and a researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. He is an editor at Agrarian South and Journal of Labor and Society, and has written for Agrarian South, the Journal of Peasant Studies, Globalizations, Review of African Political Economy, Middle East Report, and many other scholarly and popular journals. He researches climate politics, Tunisian national liberation, agrarian politics in the Arab region, and Arab intellectual history. He is writing a history of the Tunisian national liberation struggle. He is the author of a recent book, A People’s Green New Deal.
This presentation will survey some of Slaheddine el-Amami's intellectual contributions, as they ranged from integrating peasant knowledge into planning, decentralizing the state agricultural planning institutions, and rupturing from the food-import dependency patterns and technological mimesis which dominated Tunisia in the 1970s and 1980s."
This event will be held in person. Admission Free
