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“Tunisia: Are Economic Decline and Political Violence Prevailing?”

Zied Mhirsi | 21 February 2013 | 0 Comments

The African Studies Program at JHU-SAIS is hosting an important event co-sponsored with Tunisian American Young Professionals (TAYP) and the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). The event is entitled “Tunisia: Are Economic Decline and Political Violence Prevailing?” and panelists include Mustapha Kamel Nabli, former governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Emanuele Santi, principal country economist of [...]

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Visits Tunisia

Zied Mhirsi | 21 February 2013 | 0 Comments

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is currently in Tunisia to meet officials at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in order to advocate for continued funding for fragile African states, such as her own. President Sirleaf met Thursday with AfDB President Donald Kaberuka to discuss Liberia’s aims for more funding by the bank as well as the [...]

Scholars to Examine Tunisian Democracy at U.S. Event

Amira Masrour | 21 February 2013 | 0 Comments

Leading American and Tunisian scholars and experts will come together for a conference at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) March 5 to discuss and debate the Islamist-led democratic transition in Tunisia. Tunisia was chosen as the conference’s focus because of its role as the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutions. The conference is organized by JHU, [...]

Tunisian Government Accuses France of Political Interference

Bernard Yaros | 09 February 2013 | 5 Comments

Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and Foreign Affairs Minister Rafik Abdessalem reprimanded François Gouyette, French ambassador to Tunisia, for alleged French interference in the country’s internal affairs during a meeting yesterday. The meeting followed remarks made by French Interior Minister Manuel Valls Thursday related to the assassination of Tunisian opposition politician Chokri Belaid. The Tunisian government [...]

Constituent Assembly Head Eyes Vice Presidency of Socialist International

Roua Khlifi | 05 February 2013 | 0 Comments

President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA), Mustapha Ben Jaafar, announced his candidacy to become vice president of Socialist International during a speech delivered at a meeting of the international organization today. A Council meeting for Socialist International is being held in Portugal from February 3 to 6. With 250 participants and 90 delegations from [...]

Q&A: The Uprising of Women in the Arab World

Farah Samti | 31 January 2013 | 6 Comments

The Uprising Of Women in the Arab World is a social media phenomenon that started as a Facebook page and grew into a blog, and additional profiles on other social networks such as Twitter. On their Facebook page, which has over 90,000 fans so far, the young group of cyber-activists who run the initiative describe themselves [...]

Tunisia Offers to Host Two New African Institutions

Zied Mhirsi | 28 January 2013 | 0 Comments

ADDIS ABABA – During the recent African Union Summit, Tunisia offered to host two organizations: the African Statistics Institute and the Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization. The establishment of an African Statistics Institute was approved by heads of state at the summit. This project aims to standardize African statistical tools and measurements in order to facilitate economic [...]

Post-Revolutionary Tunisia Open to Monitoring from African Peers

Zied Mhirsi | 28 January 2013 | 0 Comments

ADDIS ABABA – President Moncef Marzouki signed several international agreements during the African Union Summit Saturday in Addis Ababa, including one for an African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) that was previously shunned by Tunisia’s former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Launched in 2003 by the African Union (AU), the APRM is a mutually agreed upon [...]

Marzouki to Call for International Constitutional Court at African Union

Zied Mhirsi | 25 January 2013 | 3 Comments

ADDIS ABABA - Tunisian President Marzouki is expected to seek the support for an international constitutional court at the 20th African Union (AU) Summit. The president will head later today, January 25, to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, accompanied by a large delegation, including Chief of Staff Imad Daimi and other high-profile advisors. Marzouki will reiterate the [...]

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to Visit Tunisia

Farah Samti | 22 January 2013 | 0 Comments

In his first visit to North Africa and the Middle East, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is to arrive in Tunisia tomorrow, January 23, to discuss ways to improve the institution’s role in the transitional period that Tunisia has been living since the popular uprising of 2011. According to a press release issued by the World [...]

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