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Gilles Kepel is a political scientist, specialist in Islam and the Arab world, is an editorial writer for Al-Monitor and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean chair at the École Normale Supérieure.
Tunisia is now caught in the crossfire, after its president imprisoned opposition figures, judges, and stigmatized African immigrants, while it finds itself in social and economic disrepair.
Tunis al-Khadra
(the green Tunisia) is the country where the spark of the Arab spring sprung in December 2010, when the street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire.
Democratic governance survived there long after other Arab uprisings turned into civil wars, armed jihad or military dictatorship.
Nevertheless, populist candidate Kais Saied won the October 2019 presidential election hands down, after a corrupt and ineffective parliament was stalled…
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