Who Benefits From TUNISIA’S GREEN HYDROGEN STRATEGY? Published: 1 December 2022 New publication on green hydrogen production in Tunisia!
Who benefits from Tunisia's Green Hydrogen Strategy? Published: 17 March 2023 Tunisia is currently developing a national strategy for the development of green hydrogen. While the global energy sector is being revamped, the “clean” fuel approach is often hailed as the flagship solution for the challenges of energy deficits and the decarbonization of the economy.
Hidden hardship of an unnoticed workforce Published: 3 November 2021 Our report provides a better understanding of economic lives of refugees and migrants in Tunisia and includes recommendations for key stakeholders including Tunisian authorities.
Interview with Professor Wahid Ferchichi: Individual Liberties during COVID 19 Published: 27 November 2020 COVID-19 has radically changed our lives. Hence, it is crucial to analyze the ways in which the responses of the Tunisian authorities' to the pandemic and the implementation of effective and proportionate security measures have affected the civil rights and individual freedoms of citizens. In this interview, Mahassen Segni, our Democracy Program Coordinator, speaks to Professor Wahid Ferchichi, Professor at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Carthage University and founder of the Tunisian Association for the Defense of Individual Liberties, about the challenges of having effective COVID-19 measures while staying committed to the protection of individual rights and liberties for the whole period of the crisis. For more information, please see a follow-up report covering the period from March to July 2020.
Places of safety in the mediterranean: The EU's policy of outsourcing responsibility Published: 16 September 2020 Is Tunisia a safe place for disembarking of migrants and refugees? The answer to this question is within the summary.
The Space that Remains: Celebrating Heinrich Boell in three stories Published: 11 April 2018 On the occasion of celebrating 100 years of Heinrich Boell, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Middle East office has published a graphic novel, a visual adaptation of three short stories of Heinrich Boell in English and Arabic. Illustrations by Raphaelle Macaron, Migo Rollz and Magdy El Shafee, Joseph Kai and Abraham H. Zeitoun.
A Guide to Local Environmental Governance in Tunisia Published: 6 March 2018 This guide aims at supporting local environmental action by highlighting the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of localauthorities in Tunisia.
Perspectives Issue #15 - Unboxing the Game: the Obvious & the Obscure Published: 4 December 2018 Politics are brimming with metaphoric references to games – be it the famous “Great Game” as the diplomatic confrontation of great powers in Asia at the beginning of the 20th century was referred to, the understanding of strategic moves in a region as a “chess board,” war “theatres” or references to the “players,” the strong of them framed as “actors,” the weak as “pawns”, or the crazy ones behaving like “wild cards.”
Perspectives #14 - Minorities Beyond Ethnic and Religious Divides Published: 22 October 2018 Put ‘Minorities in the Middle East’ into any search engine and a huge volume of articles are displayed insinuating that ethnic, tribal, family and sectarian affiliations are the only relevant factors needed to aid an understanding of the politics and societies of the Maghreb and Mashreq. Be it the often praised ‘mosaic’ of multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies, or the explanation and anticipation of actual and potential conflicts in the Middle East, that are shaped by ethnic, tribal or confessional affiliations, the reading has a flavour of exoticism and orientalism. So for this issue of Perspectives, we decided to ask authors in a broader sense about minority-majority relationships that can, but do not necessarily have to, tackle ethnic or confessional subjects.
Perspectives #10 - Borders: Lines in the Sand or in the Mind? Published: 20 October 2016 When ISIS announced the establishment of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ it fuelled discussions as to whether this would herald the ‘end of Sykes-Picot’ – borders artificially drawn by the colonial powers at the beginning of the twentieth century. But borders are more than ‘lines in the sand’: they divide. While the privileged few may cross legitimately by simply presenting their passport, for most, these borders present difficult if not insurmountable hurdles. People fleeing from war, climate change or economic hardship, attempt to cross the Mediterranean but many drown trying.