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A decade of Change

Our FES experts, partners and guest contributors from Rabat to Teheran and from Beirut to Khartoum will share their insights from the ground and offer food for thought as we jointly attempt to understand the repercussions of the protests started in this region 10 years ago.

The views expressed in this blog series are not necessarily those of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Blog News

11.01.2021

A Decade of Disincentivizing Democratic Change

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the “Arab Spring”, a number of articles have been published highlighting the limits of political change –...


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11.01.2021

Informal Work and Auto-Entrepreneurship Laws in the Maghreb: What can Tunisia learn from Morocco?

Informal economies in North Africa have frequently captured public attention in recent years.


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11.01.2021

Lois sur le travail informel et l'auto-entrepreneuriat au Maghreb : que peut apprendre la Tunisie du Maroc ?

Les économies informelles en Afrique du Nord ont fréquemment retenu l'attention du public ces dernières années.


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04.01.2021

Democracy without Political Parties?

Parliamentary democracy in Tunisia is in dire straits, and President Kais Saied’s radical ideas could wreak havoc on the political system.


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04.01.2021

Une démocratie sans partis politiques ?

La démocratie parlementaire en Tunisie est dans une situation désespérée et les idées radicales du président Kais Saied pourraient faire des ravages...


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22.12.2020

A decade of change

10 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi was the event that led to a whole cascade of major political and social changes in North Africa...


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16.12.2020

The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon...


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03.09.2020

The delusion of beliefs

What makes you who you are today? If we make a list of words that would identify us as people, we will most likely include either our belief system,...


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Illustration: Yara Hindawi
19.08.2020

Les travailleurs domestiques migrants et le système de Kafala: le vaste réseau d'oppression

Les frontières sont floues entre les conditions de vie sous le système de Kafala et l'esclavage.


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Illustration: Yara Hindawi
19.08.2020

Migrant domestic workers and the Kafala system: the extensive network of oppression

The boundaries between the living conditions under Kafala system and slavery are vague.


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