Politics Meriem Dhaouadi 03 February 2013

Tunisia: Weekly Political Review. Cabinet Reshuffle Fails to Materialise

The week promised to shake up considerably the political landscape in Tunisia. Contrary to the expectations of most observers, the long awaited cabinet reshuffle announcement was delayed due to the lack of consensus among the leading troika as announced Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Saturday. The new-born troika of the opposition (Nidaa Tounes, Republican Party al Massar) went almost unnoticed since the Popular Front (a unified political alliance of left-wing parties) seems to be still reluctant to join the new political and electoral front.

Blogs Wafa Ben Hassine 01 February 2013

Tunisia and the make-up of a crisis: burkas, children’s rights, and accented spoken Arabic

Today, we are confronting what we could credibly call a ‘crisis.’ An identity crisis, a socioeconomic crisis, and most of all, a daily, practical crisis.

Society Sana Sbouaï 31 January 2013

Vidéo : sit-in des migrants de Choucha

Dimanche soir une centaine de migrants ont quitté le camp de Choucha pour venir manifester à Tunis. Ils sont arrivés lundi matin et se sont dirigés vers la Place des Droits de l’Homme où ils ont commencé à manifester.

Society Ali Guidara 22 January 2013

How Tunisian Government maintains the Illegitimacy

In order to perpetuate its grip on power and because it is more than ever weakened, the Islamist party Ennahdha is now dangling before the opposition members, promising their integration soon in a future reshuffled government.

Blogs Rob Prince 12 January 2013

Tunisia: Two years On; The Crisis Deepens

The “Tunisian Revolution” has lost a good deal of its gloss. The rhetoric remains “radical”, the reality much less so. That it was a genuine national uprising engaging virtually the entire population is beyond doubt – and as such, nothing short of a regional inspiration. That it can be characterized as “a revolution” is open to question. What has changed?

Media Sami Ben Gharbia 08 January 2013

Timeline: Threats to Freedom of Expression in Post-revolution Tunisia

Outdated press and penal codes continue threatening artists, bloggers, whistleblowers, critics and media figures, while the judicial system suffers from a restrictive and repressive legislation and has yet to be reformed. So, how long is this trend expected to have an impact on Tunisia’s Freedom of expression?

Themes Meriem Dhaouadi 27 December 2012

Tunisian Bloggers Meet During 45th International Sahara Festival in Douz

They are bloggers, journalists, academicians, students and many of them are tech-savvy activists who didn’t really know each other and met for the first time since the revolution in Douz on December 22nd and 23th during The 45th International Sahara Festival of Douz….

Society Vos Contributions 19 December 2012

Can Police Torture be History in Tunisia?

The Tunisian Network for a Successful society (TUNESS) – www.tuness.org – has organized with the kind support of Columbia Society of International Law (CSIL) a round table discussion on the topic of police torture in Tunisia on Saturday December 1st, 2012 at Columbia University. Three distinguished guest speakers participated in this event.

Blogs Meriem Dhaouadi 19 December 2012

Tunisia: Revolutionary decisions and actions, not parades and celebrations!

At the heart of the plight of the more than 700 wounded and the families of the 300 martyrs is the fact that they were used for political purposes during the elections campaign. Today, those in power are busy sharing the pie, on the other hand the losers aspire to a piece of the pie and in the midst of this very struggle for power the cause of the wounded is lost.

Blogs Ali Guidara 11 December 2012

Will Tunisia be a failed state under Islamist rule?

“One year after its accession to power in December 2011, the coalition, dominated by the Islamist party, has transformed the country, and is currently being contested and defied by a large portion of the population.”

Blogs Gülşen Hacıoğlu 10 December 2012

A Letter to the West

To the right honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, May you rest in peace. You are one of the most courageous women that the West has known. Your writings from the different corners of the world you visited did not lose popularity until this very day. You are being consistently celebrated for your entertaining way of reporting. Your passion to detail and beauty is not going unnoticeable.

Blogs Vos Contributions 07 December 2012

Collective of Venticinqueundici: The European Union Peace Is Not Ours

On December 10th some EU representatives will go to Oslo to receive the award. Together with many other women and men, we can’t but express our deepest opposition to this award decision which hints at a conception of peace which is different from ours, an idea of peace which can’t be ours.

Politics Rob Prince 05 December 2012

Tunisia: Siliana and the Heritage of Farhat Hached Sixty Years After His Assassination

Sixty years ago on this date, December 5, 1952, Farhat Hached, legitimately considered the key founder and father of the independent Tunisian trade union movement was assassinated by agents of French colonialism. But the movement that he was so instrumental in creating and shaping, the Union General des Travailleurs Tunisien

Themes Meriem Dhaouadi 30 November 2012

Almost a Revolution: The “Guardians” of the Revolution Failed the People

To the outside world Tunisia, the small country that inspired the Arab world to revolt, is moving towards a substantive democracy. Protestors, from all walks of life, took to the streets of Tunisia and shouted with one voice” the people demand the fall of the regime”. Although the demands were crystal clear “jobs, freedom and dignity”, the current troika government – a coalition government formed by Ennahda after October 2011 elections- has been virtually paralyzed to concretize those demands.

World Nawaat 10 November 2012

Arab Youth Climate Movement launches across more than a dozen countries

An Arab Youth Climate Movement calling for a more sustainable future in the region will launch simultaneously across more than a dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa on 10 November 2012, ahead of the upcoming 18th Conference of the Parties (COP 18)….

World Mohamed Firas Arfaoui 01 November 2012

Mediterranean: will Demographics demolish the iron-wall?!

The history of the cultures and nations present today on the northern and southern banks of the Mediterranean are interwoven. Through the complex interactions of people living on both sides emerges the rich cultural mosaics of much of the old world.

Themes Karim Mejri 20 September 2012

Special Report: Unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia [Part 2] The public sector, object of desire

The State is the largest employer in the country. Immediately following independence, being hired by the Government was considered the foregone conclusion for a degreed graduate. Some people were even hired before they had actually obtained their degrees.

Themes Lilia Weslaty 19 September 2012

Noureddine Bhiri succeeds Ben Ali at the head of the Supreme Council of Magistrates

The Justice Minister is in the process of restoring to power a number of figures of Tunisia’s defunct dictatorial regime, this time as members of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM). Among them is Mahmoud Ajroud, the judge who, in 2008, presided over a series of iniquitous trials in the Gafsa mining basin.