It’s hard to believe that this week will have been a decade since Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor, set himself ablaze on Jan. 4, 2011, setting off what has come to be known as […]
On 17 December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor from the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against the corruption of his local police force, which regularly humiliated […]
On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, poured a bottle of gasoline over his head and body and set himself on fire. The act came […]
Tunisians may have overthrown dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a decade ago but, with few reforms to the country’s security forces and an economy rife with nepotism, its revolution is far from achieving its […]
Tunisia is the only democratic success story in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Nearly a decade since the revolution though, the country still struggles to deliver political and socio-economic reforms, and developmental problems have […]
As the Arab Spring’s birthplace and its sole fledgling democracy, Tunisia represents an encouraging yet incomplete victory against authoritarian rule and violent extremism. Tunisia’s progress since the revolution in 2011 makes it an important… Read […]
In 2014, Tunisia adopted a new constitution which calls for the creation of a new Constitutional Court. Six years later, this court has still not been put in place. This report aims to show how […]
Algeria stands on the brink of political change. For the first time in 20 years, Algeria has a new government. They’ve promised constitutional reform, an end to corruption, and protection of human rights. But underscoring […]
Since, 2017 Tunisia’s interior and South have witnessed a wave of ongoing protests, the slogan, “al-rakh la”, meaning no to giving up. These protests test the endurance of the country’s democracy. Though they intermittently disrupt […]
The Tunisian transition has been and is mostly led to a substantial amount by civil society actors. As such, Tunisia constitutes a particular case for evaluating the role of the EU which presents itself as […]
The massive mobilization known as the Hirak (movement) which gathered millions of protesters in weekly demonstrations against the Algerian regime throughout 2019, underscores the strengths and weaknesses of both leaderless protests… Read more from the […]
Tunisia is not “only” Arabic but Carthaginian, Roman, German, Byzantine, Turkish, somewhat French and Spanish and Andalusian naturally. In thirty years of his reign, Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, has made this nation […]
Whenever any country makes its first hopeful steps towards a more democratic government, we are easily inclined to conclude that it has become a democracy. But real democracy is more than just elections. It is […]
The International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research (CISR) nationwide poll of Tunisia reveals a relative increase in optimism for the country’s future and improved faith in the democratic process. However, the […]
Tunisia still faces numerous hurdles to protecting its human rights gains nine years after Tunisians ousted the authoritarian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. The authorities […]
It has been three months since free and fair presidential and legislative elections were held in Tunisia, the Arab world’s only democratic, secular state, and still no new government has been installed. Last Friday, lawmakers […]
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