This book offers both a nuanced picture of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning.  The authors describe how multiple language ideologies interact and play out as language policy against a background of political turmoil.

Ruth Wodak: Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Language Ideologies and Language Policies in Tunisia

Chapter 3. Concepts and Theories of Language Policy and Planning

Chapter 4. Arabisation and Islamisation

Chapter 5. In Defense of Francophonie

Chapter 6. Can the Vernacular be Planned?

Chapter 7. The Pragmatists

Chapter 8. Prospects and Proposals

Mohamed Daoud: Afterword

Fethi Helal is Head of the Department of English at the University of Manouba, Tunisia. He had previously taught in Saudi Arabia and served as chair of the English Department at Umm Al-Qura University-Al-Lith University College - Makkah. His research interests include language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, intercultural academic rhetoric and discourse and critical discourse analysis.

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of language and literacy education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Vice President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on language policy and planning across a wide range of geographical and language contexts.