Author

Mahmoud Dhaouadi

Mahmoud Dhaouadi was born in a rural region called Zreeba near the towns of Kalaatal-Andalus and Aousdja in the northeast of Tunisia where no formal school existed. His father hired teachers (called in Tunisian dialect Midbiyya) to teach his children in the so-called Quttab (place for learning the Quran and writing and reading Arabic). Mahmoud studied his secondary education in the Zeituna school where Arabic is the single teaching language of all subjects, unlike most of the other Tunisian schools. His higher education was in USA and Canada, where he received a BA in psychology and an MA and Ph.D. in sociology.

He taught at universities worldwide. Professor Dhaouadi has published over 30 interdisciplinary books, over 215 essays, long and short articles, along with book reviews, in Arabic, English, and French. His leading recent books in English are Humans as Third Dimensional Beings, Cultural Sociology Within Innovative Treatise, and Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment and in Arabic: Cultural Sociology’s Shortcomings and Is Teaching in ForeignLanguages a Handicap or Beneficial for Native Languages and Identities?