Sophie Bessis

Sophie Bessis was born and brought up in Tunisia and has subsequently spent most of her adult life living and working in France. A writer and journalist, she has held a number of important editorial and other posts, including head of research and subsequently editor in chief of Jeune Afrique; director of the Panos Institute in Paris; and editor of Vivre Autrement, which was published by ENDA at the major UN world summits since 1992. She is the author of a number of books over the past twenty...See more

Sophie Bessis was born and brought up in Tunisia and has subsequently spent most of her adult life living and working in France. A writer and journalist, she has held a number of important editorial and other posts, including head of research and subsequently editor in chief of Jeune Afrique; director of the Panos Institute in Paris; and editor of Vivre Autrement, which was published by ENDA at the major UN world summits since 1992. She is the author of a number of books over the past twenty years, including inter alia: L'Arme Alimentaire, Maspero, 1979: revised edition 1983 La DerniSre FrontiSre: Les tiers mondes et la tentations de l'Occident, J C Lattes, 1983 La faim dans le monde, La Decouverte, 1991 Femmes du Maghreb: l'Enjeu (with Souhayr Belhassen), JC Lattes, 1992 Femmes de Mediterrane, Karthala, 1995 La fin du tiers monde?, coauthored, La Decouverte, 1996 L'Occident et les autres: Histoire d'une suprematie, La Decouverte, 2001. See less