The author examines cultural policies in Tunisia.

This study was prepared for Unesco by Arthur Abraham, who at that time was Lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, and who is at present Associate Professor of History at Cuttington University College, Monrovia, Liberia. Theopinions expressed are the authorﾒs, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Unesco.

This article is part of a series published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to show how cultural policies are planned and implemented in various UNESCO member states. As cultures differ, so does the approach to them; it is for each Member State to determine its cultural policy and methods according to its own conception of culture, its socio-economic system, political ideology and technological development. However, the methods of cultural policy (like those of general development policy) have certain common problems; these are largely institutional, administrative and financial in nature, and the need has increasingly been stressed for exchanging experiences and information about them. This series, each issue of which follows as far as possible a similar pattern so as to make comparison easier, is mainly concerned with these technical aspects of cultural policy.

CONTENTS

• Introduction.
• Tunisia, a land of culture.
• Tunisia, a land sorely tested.
• The administrative structures.
• The formulation of a long-term cultural policy.
• The executive machinery.
• Traditional and new channels for the dissemination of culture.
• Aid to artistic creation.
• Free access to a free culture.

This article is part of a series published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to show how cultural policies are planned and implemented in various UNESCO member states. The author explore Cultural Policy in Tunisia.