We all have a personal relationship with words that is forged by our family history as well as our national history and our inscription—or our inscriptions—in collective histories. For example, the word "nationalism" will not hav..
Jocelyne Dakhlia
Jocelyne Dakhlia is a professor of history at the EHESS in Paris. In addition to her numerous academic publications, including Lingua franca. Histoire d’une langue métisse en Méditerranée, (Actes Sud, 2009), she is a frequent commentator on contemporary Tunisia as well as on questions of Islam in Europe.