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Editing existing article on Albert Memmi

+ In 1952, Memmi helped found the Centre de Psychopedágogie de Tunis where his role there affected his understanding of the psychic effects of oppression.In 1956, Memmi returned to France following Tunisia's independence, where he previously supported Tunisian nationalism in pursuit of beginning his academic career. Memmi held numerous academic positions in institutions such as the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and the École Pratique des Hautes Études before obtaining his his appointment to the the University of Paris X as a professor in sociology in 1970.

Cultural Legacy
+	Memmi's cultural legacy has been cemented by his volume of both fiction and non-fiction publications spanning from the concepts of assimilation to the dynamic relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. Memmi explored the notion of difference as part of a driving force in establishing identity. His work addresses the conflict within colonial and postcolonial relations, arguing that individual experience influences tensions within the social groups of the colonizer and colonized .In his 1955 book, The Colonizer and the Colonized, Memmi critiques the transactional relationship between the two social groups who he describes the colonizers in an illegitimately obtained privilege maintained by the colonized. He also argues in The Colonizer and the Colonized, that in order for the story of the colonial situation to be heard and understood, the voice of the colonized and the colonizers are needed .Not only does his work criticize this relationship,he places particular attention to the notion of identity itself, where the concept of coexistence in this setting can take place when each social group chooses to not emphasize their position and defining characteristics. Memmi’s work also focused on the underlying conflict between the French speaking colonized peoples and that of French from the home country, introducing the Francophone concept that places both these groups together on the basis of their use of the French language. . Memmi asserts that the French language has collectively brought together a group of writers that who wrot in the languages of their colonizers, could help end colonial domination in literature. In recent works such as his 2004 book, Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi shifted his focus away from critiquing the colonial stereotypes imposed on the colonized by the colonizers. Instead he drew criticism towards more contemporary stereotypes of nations within the Arab region. Memmi’s work has been influenced by his Jewish upbringing and understanding of what he describes as the Jewish condition in a non-Jewish world. Memmi argues in his 1962 book, Portrait of a Jew, that the Jew exists because of the non-Jew’s own interpretations and perceptions of the Jew. David Mirsky asserts in his review of Portrait of a Jew that while also denying his own religion, Memmi sees assimilation as impossible, due to one’s acceptance of their identity. Mirsky also states that one of Memmi's key arguments is that the Jew is the symbol of every oppressed race and condition in society, therefore Judaism is not a religion.