Tunisia's Political Transformation: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

September 9-10, 2022 

The Arab Political Science Network (APSN) in collaboration with the South Mediterranean University (SMU) in Tunisia organised an online workshop (September 9-10, 2022) titled Tunisia's Political Transformation: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives. The workshop brought together 14 PhD students and 6 discussants from Tunisia, Morocco, UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, UK and the US.

The two-day program featured five panels, two in Arabic and three in English. Each author shared a short presentation about their paper followed by feedback from the assigned discussants and workshop participants. In the two Arabic sessions, papers looked at the growing populist politics in Tunisia, the impact of the changing political system and the new constitution as well as the current economic and financial crisis. In the three English sessions, authors focused on state-society dynamics, feminist mobilization over the past decade, online activism, and the changing role of the judiciary and parliament.