Habib Thamer and the National Question through Two Documents on Women (1930) and Teaching the Arabic Language (1932)

Our study aspires to detect the presence of the Arab nationalist ideology in the thought and the anticolonialist fight of Dr. Habib Thameur since his adhesion at the beginning of the thirties of the last century to the association of the Arab Union constituted by Iraqi student and diplomatic personalities residing in Paris long before April 1932. This is the capture of this thought through two documents, one dating from 1930 and the other from 1932 dealing with how the emancipation of Tunisian women in a paternalistic nationalist option by limiting its field of action in the education of children and their preparation to serve the nation and the need to provide them with this education in their national Arabic language by recruiting competent teachers for the task. This explains, following the founding of the Destourian student cell in Paris in 1936, the appearance of strategic and tactical differences in the positioning of the two leaders vis--vis the emancipation of Tunisian women for one circumscribed and oriented and for the other free and total (code of personal status promulgated on August 13, 1956), alliances during the War between Allies and Axis forces and finally the premises of the Afro-Asian non-alignment of Thameur against the Western alignment of the leader Bourguiba during the Cold War at the end of the Second World War.