28 October 2009
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Tunis — A new work, published by "Maison Arabe du Livre" company, titled "Ben Ali, Strength of a Destiny" has been put to sale.
Authored by sociology professor at the University of Tunis and editor-in-chief of "Al-Horriya" daily Mongi Zidi, the work,with a cover illustrated by a portrait of the Head of State, reviews the abundant crops of achievements President Ben Ali's societal project has reaped, since the advent of the Change.
The 200-page book analyses, in its four chapters, the "November 7, 1987 Change in its historical context," "Political Reform and Construction of an Emerging Country," the "Promising Agenda" and the "Constitutional Democratic Rally."
It clearly shows, by reference to history, the tenets of President Ben Ali's political thinking and the great accomplishments of the last two decades, that "the Change handed back to the people, their elites, youths and all of the nation's active strengths, the ability to carry out undertakings and the will to create better conditions for living together in peace, stability and prosperity."
The work highlights the pivotal role of the leader, an "unequalled person who, owing to his charisma and intrinsic qualities, managed to gather people and galvanised their adherence around his societal design and earned their involvement in a better communal living."
It points up the way political will in Tunisia, since 1987, wiped out the divide that had long undermined power workings, crippled society and brought about the reign of suspicion and mistrust.
It also elicits this will's capacity to work out a social contract, synonymous with a dynamic structure within which the guide's attitude and his interrelation with the social component are defined.
"Ben Ali, Strength of a Destiny" explains, from the Tunisian political context, "the organic complementarity tying the citizens and those who govern them and the mutual collaboration binding them to achieve the hoped-for development, political and human targets, the social cohesion and national unity."
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