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The Tightrope Prime Minister
Hamadi Jebali Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, has committed himself to walking a fine line between advocating his own ideology of political Islam and safeguarding a stable democratic transition...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
A Tunisian vendor sells dried fruit before an election poster in Tunis A year after the revolution in Tunisia took place, one thing has become clear, though many of the grievances that led Tunisians to...
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The Poster Child of the Arab Spring
A Tunisian police officer, wrapped in the country's flag, flashes a victory sign during a union-led protest calling for the protection of security personnel Tunisia has accomplished much in the last...
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Tunisia’s Close Call
Ennahdha Party supporters protest against Tunisia’s former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi’s launch of his ‘call of Tunisia’ in Tunis on June 16, 2012.For those who lived in Tunisia during its...
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A Tunisian Revolution Souring?
Seyyed Ferjani. Source: Gianni Cipriano for the ‘New York Times’My first meeting with Seyyed Ferjani, the Ennahda revolutionary and current advisor to the Tunisian Ministry of Justice, was on a morning...
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Assassination Aftermath
A protester holds a poster reading “Tunisia in mourning, RIP Chokri Belaid, Ennahdha get out,” as others hold candles during a demonstration on February 6, 2013, held outside the Tunisian embassy in...
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Secularists Stick Around
Congress for the Republic Secretary General Mohamed Abbou (C) addresses a press conference on February 11, 2013 in Tunis in which he said Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki’s secular party would stay...
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Four Radicals Held over Belaid’s Murder
Tunisia’s new prime minister, Ali Laaraiedh, leaves following his meeting with leaders of local political parties on February 26, 2013 in Tunis. TUNIS, Asharq Al-Awsat—Four radical Salafist Muslims...
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Clashes in Tunis and Kairouan
Tunisian police fire tear gas as clashes broke out with radical Islamists on May 19, 2013. KHALIL/AFP/Getty Images TUNIS, Asharq Alawsat—Clashes between Salafist extremists and security forces in...
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A Deep State of Mind
Grafitti marks the occasion when Tunisians successfully ousted their president Zine El Abidin Ben Ali in January 2011. CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES Following the assassination of Chokri Belaid,...
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International opinion divided over toppling of Mursi
Egyptian opposition protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square on July 4, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. Ed Giles/Getty Images LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—The downfall of Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi at the hands of...
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Slain Tunisian opposition figure laid to rest
Tunisian police fire tear gas as clashes break out with radical Islamists in this May 19, 2013, file photo. (KHALIL/AFP/Getty Images)Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—A state funeral was held in Tunisia on...
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Tunisian Déjà-Vu
Mohamed Brahmi’s coffin covered with a Tunisian flag. GETTY IMAGES The same setting, same strategy, same weapon, same political inclination of the victim, and same tears from a now fatherless child:...
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Tunisian premier calls for national unity
Tunisian supporters of ruling Islamist Ennahdha party chant slogans on August 3, 2013, in Tunis in solidarity with the government. Tens of thousands of Islamists gathered in support of Ennahda, whose...
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Transition at a Turtle’s Pace
Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou and Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice Samir Dilou attend a constituent assembly meeting on September 19,...
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Shrinking Shar’iyyah
Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party’s leader Rachid Ghannouchi (R) signs documents during a meeting as part of the dialogue between Tunisia’s ruling Islamists and the opposition on October 5, 2013....
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Better under Ben Ali?
Tunisian people sit on stairs outside the theater on Habib Bourguiba Avenue on November 6, 2013, in Tunis. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)A specter is haunting Tunisia: the specter of Zine El-Abidine...
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Tunisia’s not Talking
A Tunisian man pays for his coffee with Tunisian dinar bills bearing slogans calling for the Ennahda party to step down from power. (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images) Tunisia’s political scene has been...
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The Muslim Brotherhood versus Ennahda
Mohammed Badie (far left), leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement seen with Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party Rachid Ghannouchi (third from right) at a major conference of Islamists in...
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Tunisia: PM-designate Jomaa closing in on cabinet formation
Newly appointed Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa arrives to meet Tunisian Constituent Assembly President Mustapha Ben Jaafar on December 18, 2013. (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images) Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prime...
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