Sophie Bessis Franco-Tunisian historian and journalist. Tunisian Women in Favour of an Egalitarian Heritage Sophie Bessis · October 2017 On last September 13, exactly one month after his promises made on Women’s Day, Beji Caid Essebsi abrogated the 1973 decree prohibiting marriages between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man. But his other promise of equal inheritance rights between the sexes, is a thornier question and keeping (…)