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Final Draft of Constitution Announced, but Approval Remains Questionable

Emily Parker | 03 June 2013 | 5 Comments

On Saturday, the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) announced that the drafting of the Tunisian constitution had been completed, but the sixteen-month long process of creating the framework for a new government may yet be far from over. Three preliminary versions of the constitution have been produced since the January 2011 revolution, but in a ceremony [...]

Harvard Arab Alumni Conference Focuses on Tunisian Transition

Anoir Ennouri | 22 March 2013 | 1 Comment

Co-written by Bernard Yaros President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Mustapha Ben Jaafar led a discussion on post-revolutionary politics yesterday at the eighth annual Arab World Conference organized by the Harvard Arab Alumni Association (HAAA). In his 20-minute address, Ben Jaafar highlighted the country’s accomplishments since the revolution, such as the recovery from -2% [...]

Survey Finds Low Levels of Trust for Political Leaders

Bernard Yaros | 08 March 2013 | 2 Comments

As the composition of the new government is set to be announced Friday, a recent poll by market research company Sigma Conseil sheds some light on the current political attitudes of Tunisians. The survey’s most significant finding was that Tunisians expressed low levels of trust in political leaders. Out of the poll’s 1,616 participants, 59% [...]

Tunisian Youth Call for Greater Political Participation

Racha Haffar | 27 February 2013 | 3 Comments

Even though Omezzine Khlifa has founded a women’s leadership group, worked as a media and telecommunications engineer, and served as adviser to the Minister of Finance and Tourism, she would not be eligible to apply for Tunisia’s Independent Board of Elections (ISIE). She has not yet reached the age of 35, a recently announced prerequisite [...]

Central Bank Governor Nabli’s Dismissal: A Crisis for Tunisia’s Ruling Troika?

Bernard Yaros | 01 July 2012 | 0 Comments

The imminent dismissal of the Governor of the Tunisian Central Bank (BCT), Mustapha Kamel Nabli, has whipped up a firestorm of criticism, both from Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly (CA) and members of the financial community. The Tunisian president’s office announced on Wednesday that Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and President Moncef Marzouki had agreed to remove Nabli. Now, [...]

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