Tunisia is the country that started the Arab Spring. Its current Constitution recognizes freedom of conscience
Middle East and Africa

The Ups and Downs of the Tunisian Exception

In addition to having inaugurated the revolutionary wave of 2010-2011, Tunisia constitutes the only successful case of institutional transition in the Arab-Spring context. Today, however, the country finds itself in a social and economic emergency to which the new political class seems unable to respond
Religion and Society

Tunisia: between Freedom of Conscience and Protection of the Sacred

The Tunisian Constitution reflects the power relations presiding at its drafting: it guarantees the secularists freedom of conscience and accords the Islamists protection of both religion and the sacred
Religion and Society

Tunisia: “We Want to Be Free, But Don’t Call Us an Exception”

The Tunisian President wants to cut family law free from sharia and dispel the taboo regarding gender inequality in inheritance: one of the last taboos in the Arab-Muslim world
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Feb, 2018

Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women

Press Review, 2 February 2018
18
Dec, 2017

Egypt Reopens Ancient Library Holding Thousands of Centuries-Old Manuscripts
24
Oct, 2016

“Democratic revolutions are not always happy revolutions”

“To think that the Middle East of the 2000s means to think of our world starting from its ‘elsewhere’”
Religion and Society

The Tunisian Exception: the Islamist Compromise

Ennahda party declared it is framing its actions in terms of “transition and change”. Is a move towards a “Muslim Democracy” along the lines of European Christian Democracies possible?