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?
The Tunisian uprising is not only a revolt against the old regime; it is also a powerful act of defiance against any potential dictators to come.
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.
Tunisia's modern history, from the late French colonial period to the rule of two long-term presidents, has been a constant presence in the life of the journalist Francis Ghilès. Here he reflects on how this experience - familial, social, professional - has over six decades shaped his understandin
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
The link between ‘karamah’ and ‘al hurriyah”, the call for dignified existence and the rejection of oppression has given birth to a further crucial concept – that of the social responsibility of public authority. This cannot be achieved by maintaining the economic polices of the old regimes.
In Tunisia the official Facebook page of the moderately Islamist Nahda party urged Franco-Tunisians to vote massively for Hollande to "dégage" Sarkozy.
Islamist parties are proving to be the main beneficiaries of the Arab world's political transformation. But their very success in the political arena highlights the huge challenges they face in developing and implementing a coherent economic programme, says Fawaz A Gerges.
How much support is there 'on the street' for the protesters?
On Monday, violence returned to Habib Bourghiba Avenue, a vital site on which protests led to the fall of former President Zine Abidine Ben Ali’s regime. For some, it feels like little has changed in the year since the revolution.
