FORUM: Tourism in oasis, Natural and cultural mirages of an encounter?

Art. (in French) in Cahier d’études africaines (2009, éditions de l’EHESS, Paris)
Numéro “Tourismes. La quête de soi par la pratique des autres” (issue “Tourisms. The quest for self in the practice of other”).
From Tourism to discover the nature of North African oases to Tourism to attain now the “essential nature” of oases’ communities, this article will show that the landscape, and environmental dimensions remain a permanent feature, fueled by transnational imaginations. Fieldworks on Siwa oasis in Egypt and Tozeur oasis and Jerid region in Tunisia.