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Industries without smokestacks in Tunisia: Creating jobs in tourism and ICT

Sami Mouley and Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

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Addressing youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks: A Tunisia case study

Sami Mouley and Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

A bus travels towards Tripoli by the newly-reopened coastal road which was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, near Ras Lanuf, Libya August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Order from Chaos

Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, August 19, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a speech at the government's swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace outside the capital Tunis, Tunisia February 27, 2020. Fethi Belaid/Pool via REUTERS

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Tunisia, democracy, and the return of American hypocrisy

Shadi Hamid

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: Tunisia

Yasmina Abouzzohour and Nejla Ben Mimoune

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Army officers patrol streets following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Casablanca, Morocco March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

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COVID in the Maghreb: Responses and impacts

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi (R) and Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda movement, gesture during a congress of the Ennahda movement in Tunis,Tunisia May 20, 2016. Zoubeir Souissi

Middle East & North Africa

The dark side of consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019

Sharan Grewal and Shadi Hamid

January 2020

People shout slogans during a nationwide strike against the government's refusal to raise wages in Tunis, Tunisia January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC17459A83B0

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Tunisian democracy at a crossroads

Sharan Grewal

February 2019

Younes Fekraoui, 26, who is an unemployed graduate, holds his degree certificates at a street at the impoverished Zhor neighborhood of Kasserine, where young people have been demonstrating for jobs since last week, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - GF10000288051

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Regional development in Tunisia: The consequences of multiple marginalization

Larbi Sadiki

Monday, January 14, 2019

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After the announcement the evening before by the President of the Republic Kais Saied is freezing the activities of the assembly and the dismissal of the head of government and its members, Rached Ghannouchi, president of the assembly and the Islamist Ennahdha party, went to the assembly with some deputies, in Tunis, Tunisia, on Monday 3 a.m. July 26, 2021. They found themselves in front of a closed gate and an assembly held by the military who denied him access to parliament. He then established a sitin in front of the gates of the assembly and called on his supporters to join him in regaining power. Photo by Nicolas Fauque/Images De Tunisie/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Kais Saied’s power grab in Tunisia

Sharan Grewal

Monday, July 26, 2021

Man receives vaccine in Morocco. Source: Reuters

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One year of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: The fate of the ‘best performers’

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, March 22, 2021

Plenary session devotes part of it to questioning the government about the country's situation and the protests in Tunis, Tunisia on January 20, 2021. The Assembly of the Representatives of the People, agenda includes holding a dialogue with the government about the general situation in the country after the protest movement in the country, in the presence of the Minister of Social Affairs, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Investment Support, and the Minister of National Defense who represents the Prime Minister. (Photo by Mohamed Krit/ SIPA USA)No Use Germany.

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Friday, January 22, 2021

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Industries without smokestacks in Tunisia: Creating jobs in tourism and ICT

Addressing youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks: A Tunisia case study

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COVID in the Maghreb: Responses and impacts

The dark side of consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019

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