Tunisia

If Westerners are shocked at political developments in Tunisia, it’s because they described it as a straightforward success for too long.

Foreign powers should condemn Kais Saied’s power grab to halt long-term damage to the nascent democracy.

The Arab Spring’s democratic success story is wrestling with the vestiges of an authoritarian past.

Taking a page from Beijing, Rome is positioning itself as the center of trade, energy, and transportation in Southern Europe and beyond.

The Arab world is trapped in a state of permanent revolution.

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Tunisians are discovering that political reform alone isn’t enough.

European countries have suffered from the pandemic, but their southern and eastern neighbors are faring even worse—setting the stage for financial ruin, political instability, and a surge of refugees.

The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East.

The Saudi crown prince’s regional aggression and disdain for human rights have prompted religious scholars and pious pilgrims to refuse to go on the hajj. 

Police unions are using their country’s newfound freedoms to protect themselves—and attack freedom fighters.

The country's secular and Islamist parties have been governing by consensus for years—and strangling democracy in the process.

The case of Tunisia shows that the anger of disappointed middle-class youths is driving radicalization more than poverty or unemployment.

In an interview, Tunisian foreign minister says Western-led action in Libya in 2011 was reckless.

What Tunisia can teach its neighbors about the value of education.

For whispering a story of liberation.

I study fractured societies from post-war Côte d’Ivoire to post-Arab Spring Tunisia. Here’s how the next president can heal a divided electorate.