La Tunisie perd aujourd’hui l’un de ses plus brillants esprits avec la disparition de Khalifa Chater, figure de proue de l’histoire et de la pens\u00e9e contemporaine. Si son nom reste indissociable des bancs de l’Universit\u00e9 tunisienne, il demeure tout aussi intimement li\u00e9 \u00e0 l’aventure intellectuelle du magazine R\u00e9alit\u00e9s, dont il fut un pilier fid\u00e8le durant des ann\u00e9es.
\nEn tant que collaborateur pr\u00e9cieux, il a su insuffler aux pages de la revue une profondeur historique et une rigueur analytique qui faisaient de chacune de ses interventions un moment de r\u00e9flexion privil\u00e9gi\u00e9. Son engagement ne s’arr\u00eatait pas \u00e0 l’\u00e9crit, puisqu’il \u00e9tait un conf\u00e9rencier assidu et incontournable du Forum International de R\u00e9alit\u00e9s. Ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e, il a nourri les d\u00e9bats de son \u00e9rudition, \u00e9clairant les enjeux strat\u00e9giques et socioculturels du pays avec une sagesse et une clart\u00e9 qui for\u00e7aient le respect.<\/p>\n
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26 juillet 2018 \u00e0 Hammamet : Khalifa Chater avec son \u00e9pouse, Souad Chater, lors de sa participation \u00e0 l’une des \u00e9dition du Forum international de R\u00e9alit\u00e9s<\/p><\/div>\n
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Professeur \u00e0 la Facult\u00e9 des Sciences humaines et sociales de Tunis, cet \u00e9minent acad\u00e9mique a forg\u00e9 son parcours \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne o\u00f9 il a obtenu un doctorat de troisi\u00e8me cycle en 1974, suivi d\u2019un doctorat d\u2019Etat en 1981. Sa contribution au savoir a \u00e9t\u00e9 salu\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle internationale par un doctorat Honoris Causa de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier en 1996, ainsi qu\u2019en Tunisie par le Prix national des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines en 1997. D\u00e9vou\u00e9 \u00e0 l’enseignement de l’histoire moderne et contemporaine \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Tunis depuis 1972, il a \u00e9galement mis son expertise au service de l\u2019Etat \u00e0 travers de hautes responsabilit\u00e9s au sein du minist\u00e8re des Affaires culturelles. Il a notamment dirig\u00e9 le Centre culturel international d’Hammamet en 1978, l’Institut sup\u00e9rieur de documentation de 1987 \u00e0 1996, puis la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de Tunisie de 1997 \u00e0 2002. Depuis 2008, il pr\u00e9side la Commission de la strat\u00e9gie de traduction, \u0153uvrant activement au rayonnement de la culture tunisienne sur la sc\u00e8ne mondiale.
\nL’\u0153uvre de Khalifa Chater se distingue par une analyse profonde des structures du pouvoir et des mouvements sociaux qui ont fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 la Tunisie moderne. Son travail s\u00e9minal reste sans doute sa th\u00e8se de doctorat d’\u00c9tat publi\u00e9e sous le titre \u201cInsurrection et r\u00e9pression dans la Tunisie du XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, o\u00f9 il diss\u00e8que avec pr\u00e9cision la r\u00e9volte d’Ali Ben Ghedhahem en 1864. Cet ouvrage a r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 la compr\u00e9hension des rapports entre le pouvoir central beylical et les tribus de l’int\u00e9rieur, mettant en lumi\u00e8re les m\u00e9canismes de la fiscalit\u00e9 et de la r\u00e9sistance paysanne face aux r\u00e9formes impos\u00e9es.
\nDans la continuit\u00e9 de ses recherches sur la p\u00e9riode pr\u00e9-coloniale, il a publi\u00e9 \u201cLa R\u00e9gence de Tunis : 1815-1857\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, une \u00e9tude magistrale qui explore les mutations de l’\u00c9tat tunisien avant le protectorat. Khalifa Chater ne s’est toutefois pas limit\u00e9 aux archives du XIXe si\u00e8cle et a consacr\u00e9 une part importante de sa fin de carri\u00e8re \u00e0 l’histoire imm\u00e9diate et aux grandes figures nationales. Sa biographie monumentale intitul\u00e9e \u201cTahar Ben Ammar (1889-1985)\u201d<\/strong><\/em> retrace le parcours du signataire de l’ind\u00e9pendance, tandis que son essai plus r\u00e9cent, \u00ab\u00a0L’\u00e8re Bourguiba<\/strong><\/em>\u00ab\u00a0, offre un regard critique et nuanc\u00e9 sur la construction de l’\u00c9tat moderne et l’exercice du pouvoir par le premier pr\u00e9sident tunisien.
\nL’un de ses derniers legs majeurs demeure l’ouvrage \u201cLa dynastie husseinite (1705-1957)<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, paru en 2025, qui synth\u00e9tise plus de deux si\u00e8cles d’histoire monarchique. Au-del\u00e0 de ces livres de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, sa production intellectuelle se d\u00e9cline en une multitude d’articles acad\u00e9miques et de chroniques analytiques.
\nEn ces douloureuses circonstances, Ta\u00efeb Zahar et toute l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Maghreb Media R\u00e9alit\u00e9s pr\u00e9sentent leurs condol\u00e9ances attrist\u00e9es \u00e0\u00a0 la famille du d\u00e9funt.
\nQue Dieu le Tout-Puissant lui accorde Son infinie Mis\u00e9ricorde et l\u2019accueille dans Son \u00e9ternel Paradis.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Tunisie perd aujourd’hui l’un de ses plus brillants esprits avec la disparition de Khalifa Chater, figure de proue de l’histoire et de la pens\u00e9e contemporaine. Si son nom reste…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":388106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10742,3736,1120],"class_list":["post-388104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-actualites","tag-khalifa-chater","tag-realites-online","tag-tunisie"],"yoast_head":"\n
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