Instances indépendantes : Sort suspendu au verdict de Saied

Consacrées dans la Constitution de 2014, la plupart des instances constitutionnelles indépendantes ont été enterrées dans la nouvelle constitution. Parmi les cinq instances constitutionnelles de la Constitution de 2014, seule l’ISIE a survécu. La constitution de Saied prévoit, en revanche, la création d’un Conseil suprême de l’éducation. Le sort des instances suspendues, ainsi que celui des droits et libertés qu’elles sont censées renforcer, sont tributaires des desseins du président de la République. Toutefois, elles n’ont pas attendu le règne de Kais Saied pour connaitre des crises menaçant leur mission et parfois même leur existence. Et la situation des autres instances publiques indépendantes n’est guère plus enviable.

Tunisia’s dilemma: Leadership or democracy?

It’s complicated but, obviously, the last 11 years of Tunisian history have shown that we cannot have both leadership and democracy. Indeed, Tunisia’s own version of the so-called Arab spring has been mired in muddy uncertainties. The stark degradation of social values and unprecedented illiteracy rates can only be matched by the widespread corruption which rests upon successive government failures amplified by incompetence, and sustained by complacency and ignorance.

هيئة الانتخابات والاستفتاء: عدوى الأخطاء المتسربة تضع المصداقية على المحك

الإعلان عن النتائج الأولية للاستفتاء، على أهميّته، لم يكن الحدث الأبرز خلال الأيام الفارطة. فنسب المشاركة والمقاطعة والعزوف كانت مُتوقَّعة إلى حدّ ما. ولكنّ الارتباك الّذي بدت عليه هيئة الانتخابات في كيفيّة تسيير أعمالها والّذي تُوّج بالخطأ الّذي سجّلته في نتائج الاستفتاء حسب المراكز الفرعية للاقتراع، كان لافتًا للأنظار.

Innawaation: Malek Khemiri presents Black Label

No more than it is appropriate to go through Malek Khemiri’s photographs at a run, one should not look for a practice of reporting in Black Babel. His approach, subject to the authority of current events, nonetheless tends to go beyond them. These images taken between January and February 2021, would they be more than small pebbles left behind, snapshots of memory? From that winter, when the pandemic was in full swing, we will have kept the memory of corseted nights, sucked in until noon by the clamor of the riots whose day would prolong the echo.

Innawaation: Empire & WMD present Gloub Faydha

« Gloub Faydha », a rap song created within the Bab El Beat project, is a cry of revolt against the established political class and a call for resistance against police repression. The clip alternates between the fictional universe reflected in the song’s lyrics and Nawaat’s video coverage of protests. In form, these videos match the music’s accelerated tempo and hard core percussion. In substance, they illustrate the song’s theme and lyrics.

Innawaation: Callum Francis Hugh presents « Hors-Réseaux »

Far beyond the destructive influence of social media, 4G and « catch all » algorithms, who and where are the individuals living outside the echo chamber that is today’s media landscape? Is their existence « off-the-grid » by obligation, or by choice? To answer this, Callum set out with his camera into the Saharan desert, where he met a family of nomads, the Raabia. In this arid zone of southwest Tunisia, transhumance is the core of existence for the Raabia, whose cross-desert migrations to graze their herds are dictated by the changing of the seasons. While borders may be of little concern to this family, climate change has begun to take its toll on daily life, threatening their very survival.

Innawaation: Rym Amami presents Phaza 907 B

« Nuts », Rym Amami & Ghazi Frini, are two oleaginous adventurers who spent years of their lives in vitro, inside jars belonging to Arbi the « 7ammas » [corner store owner]. As they carefully planned their escape, the two nuts made themselves very tiny in order to avoid being snatched up, and spent hours smoking Camel cigarettes and digging a tunnel with the help of a wooden spoon borrowed from a « President » ice cream.

Résultats préliminaires du référendum : Quid des erreurs de l’ISIE ?

L’Instance supérieure indépendante pour les élections (ISIE) a publié sur sa page Facebook officielle, dans la soirée du 26 juillet, les résultats préliminaires du référendum sur le projet de constitution de Kais Saied. L’ISIE a ainsi diffusé les chiffres détaillés de chaque circonscription électorale, avant de les retirer, en raison “d’erreurs”. Quelles sont ces erreurs et qui en est responsable?

نتائج الاستفتاء الأولية: ماذا عن ارتباك هيئة الإنتخابات وأخطائها؟

نشرت الهيئة العليا المستقلة للانتخابات يوم 26 جويلية ليلا على صفحتها الرّسمية على فايسبوك النتائج الأولية للاستفتاء على مشروع دستور قيس سعيّد مُفصّلة حسب كلّ دائرة انتخابية. ولكنّها ألغت هذا المنشور نظرا “لتسرّب أخطاء إليه “. فما هي هذه الأخطاء ومن يتحمّل مسؤولية ارتكابها؟

Reportage à Nabeul : Le tissu économique et social décousu du secteur textile

Le textile joue un rôle économique et social majeur en Tunisie puisque le tiers des entreprises industrielles du pays relèvent de ce secteur, comptant 185 milles travailleurs. Et les femmes constituent leur écrasante majorité. Mais malgré sa position stratégique, le textile connait de nombreux dysfonctionnements mettant en péril l’existence des entreprises et la dignité de ses employés.

Mr. President, we are the owners of Tunisia!

On July 4th, when we saw the first draft of the new constitution, I exonerated President Saied for such a calamity, putting the sole responsibility on the professors of constitutional law he had chosen. They were supposed to be the sources and the guarantors of the new constitution wanted by the head of state. After all, he had made us believe that he had entrusted them with the solemn mission of writing a “sacred” civil text that would guarantee Tunisia’s passage into an era of dignity and decency, in total rupture with ten years of catastrophic governance carried out by scavengers of politics, of all persuasions.

حوار مع الفنان الفلسطيني فرج سليمان :”شو يعني أغنية ملتزمة؟“

“أحلى من برلين” هو الالبوم الذي فرض به فرج سليمان نفسه منذ سنتين كأحد أهم الموسقيين المستقلين العرب. مشروع فني صاغ كلماته مجد كيال ليتجاوز إشعاعه حدود حيفا و الأراضي المحتلة و يخطف الانظار داخل وخارج العالم العربي. فرج سليمان سيكون على ركح مهرجان قرطاج يوم الأربعاء 27 جويلية. نواة حاورته فور وصوله تونس.