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The Regime of Kais Saied: Populist Authoritarianism by Default
On July 25th 2021, President Kaïs Saïed assumed full control of the Tunisian state. Since then, he has methodically unraveled the institutional architecture put in place after the fall of Zine El...
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Tunisia’s Anti-NGO Bill Risks Suffocating Civil Society
At the time of writing, Tunisian parliament is continuing its work on rewriting the country’s law on associations. Though information is scarce, it appears that a draft law submitted by a group of ten...
View ArticleKais Saied Today, What Tomorrow? Tunisia in the Age of Hyperpolitics
This report from the Noria Research MENA Program offers a consideration of the political moment in Tunisia. It begins by probing the character and prospects of the autocracy which has consolidated...
View ArticleWhat was is no more, what will come uncertain: Palestine after October 7th
Upon returning from a month of fieldwork in Lebanon and Qatar, Noria MENA Program co-Director Xavier Guignard sat down for an interview with Program Chief Editor Colin Powers. The transcript below is...
View ArticleArchitects of Economic Collapse: Abdel Fateh el-Sisi, International Finance,...
Ten years into the rule of Abel Fateh el-Sisi and with another five having just been secured, the Egyptian economy remains mired in a long unfolding crisis. In some ways, this is a crisis born of the...
View ArticleThe Failure of IFI Policies to Address Gender Inequalities in the MENA Region
The close of 2023 brought the end of the consultation process for the World Bank’s 2024-2030 gender strategy.[1] Meant to signal the Bretton Woods twins’ dedication to gender equality and...
View ArticleThe Social Life of Phosphate on the Two Shores of the Mediterranean: Ecology,...
It is no exaggeration to say that phosphate has shaped modernity as much as any other natural and non-renewable resource. Constitutive, alongside nitrogen and potash, of the chemical fertilisers which...
View ArticleAn Italian Connection? Racism and Populism in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
Migration has long bound Italy and Tunisia. Depending on the moment in time, the twinned countries have alternated as sites of sanctuary and exodus. Just as Tunisians and those transiting through the...
View ArticleCan the Turkish regime absorb the opposition to Israel’s war?
In early January 2024, Turkey witnessed some of the most crowded mass demonstrations against Israel in the entire world. Government-friendly business associations were among the main organizers of...
View ArticleKaïs Saïed and Tunisia’s High Functionaries
Since executing his coup d’état on July 25th of 2021, Kaïs Saïed’s “revolution from within the state” has posed a number of difficult questions for the Tunisian bureaucracy. In quietly altering the...
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