Tunisia is approaching the tenth anniversary of its 2010-2011 Jasmine revolution while facing one of its most challenging periods. This expression has been used repeatedly over the past decade, as Tunisia has not been short on problems…
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His act of despair still shakes the Arab world. Mohamed Bouazizi, the 26-year-old fruit seller whose self-immolation triggered revolutions across the Middle East, has a boulevard named after him in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis. In his home town of Sidi Bouzid, he is depicted in a giant portrait facing the local government headquarters. But a decade since…
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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 goals. Ben Ali fled the country on January 14, 2011, with only a few members of his family and his closest aides leaving with him…
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On January 14, 2011, Wadii Jelassi heard that a protest was under way in central Tunis. There were risks in attending mass street protests against the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled Tunisia with an iron fist since 1987…
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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 worsened…
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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…
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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 phosphate and oil …
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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 a supporter of civil society. How, indeed, are its presence and practices perceived by those actors? Based on more than thirty interviews, the authors find that Tunisian stakeholders…
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Morocco saw a less strict application of many laws that violate human rights and civil norms, following the “Arab Spring” revolution, but it didn’t last long. Criticism of religion, ans religious or state authorities, remains a crime…
Read more from the source : End blasfemy laws
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Arab countries still have fewer cases of Covid-19 than the United States, Europe or China, but they also have fewer policy options as they have not fully recovered from the “Arab springs”. Local and international actors should not merely freeze…
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