The Renaissance Dam after the Security Council

Summer 2021 / Essays

Egypt and Sudan continue to insist on a tripartite agreement to manage Ethiopia’s contentious plan to execute its Renaissance dam on the Nile.

Tunisia: Birth of The Citizen

June 7, 2021 / Global Forum

Gains made in the wake of the Tunisian uprising and in the decade since cannot be fully qualified but, on the ground, it is clear that Tunisia has transformed itself.

Why the Phrase “Arab Spring” Should be Retired

February 4, 2021 / Essays

It’s time to stop using a Western-based concept ten years on from the events that began the Arab Uprisings.

The Risks of Hardened Borders in North Africa

November 9, 2018 / Tahrir Forum

Rather than making North Africa safer, securitizing borders has raised the risk of instability along the region’s frontiers, where communities depend on smuggling.

Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly?

Summer 2018 / Midan

Can Tunisia serve as a model for Arab Spring countries?

On the Politics behind Tunisia’s Protests

January 17, 2018 / Tahrir Forum

Analysis on why the recent protests erupted in Tunisia.

Inside Tunisia’s Power Struggle

Spring 2017 / Essays

Given the domestic upheavals that accompanied the Arab uprisings of 2011, how did Tunisia become the Arab Spring’s success story? Part of the answer is the pragmatism of the Islamist Ennahda movement, which formed a troika coalition with two secular parties after the ouster of the country’s dictator.

A Day of Arab Despair and Radical Change

April 28, 2016 / Tahrir Forum

Four very different events on the same day all confirm once again the hard consequences of the unsustainable policies that all Arab governments, without exception, pursued since the 1970s.

Tunisia’s New Republicanism

April 17, 2016 / Tahrir Forum

Sada interviews Charles Tripp on his latest study, which focuses on politics in the aftermath of Tunisia’s revolutionary moment and the battle for public space.

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