With Egypt’s first elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF is no longer going to be grooming a fourth military dynasty and will enter various degrees of power struggles only to discover that raw power can only take you so far.
Their excuse – that they are busy drafting the constitution – just isn’t convincing.
The result so far of what seems to be a never-ending controversy over blasphemy in Tunisia sometimes seems to be leading the country pell-mell to a civil war.
The downfall of Ben Ali has brought to the fore an ever-growing fan club of the newly-elected Islamist government to replace them.
How shall we deal with these fanatics? I say that it is up to the youth, including me, to answer these questions and to take action. But how?
Media reports emphasizing the “violent” dimension of “salafism” miss an important point: the Tunisian salafist landscape is highly heterogeneous and makes little room for violent avatars. Making this more complex, not everybody claiming to be a “salafist”, or denounced as such, actually is a salaf
Does going green and focusing on environment-oriented investments correspond to the Tunisian people’s most pressing demand: employment?
Khaled Bouhrizi, is a 29-year old Tunisian rapper who was incarcerated for six years in prison. He was convicted for trafficking hemp, illegal by Tunisian law. Ahmed Medien went to talk to him.
While the UGTT often prides itself on having played a prominent role in the unfolding of the mass protests which eventually led to the ouster of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on January 14 2011, the picture is more blurred when it comes to what links the union‘s executive leadership actually entertained
In Tunisia the official Facebook page of the moderately Islamist Nahda party urged Franco-Tunisians to vote massively for Hollande to "dégage" Sarkozy.
How much support is there 'on the street' for the protesters?
A peaceful protest in Tunis turned violent as police attacked marchers. David Charles, a Briton, who was visiting Tunisia's capital witnessed the chaotic scene as the small group of non-violent protesters were set upon with gas canisters and batons.
