An event by Freedom House, "The Role of Women and Islam in the New Tunisia," featured Tunisian activist and researcher Dr. Kedija Arfaoui. The event was held Question and Answer style and was moderated by Freedom House Egypt Program Director Nancy Okail, who began the discussion by commenting on Tunisia's role as a model for the emerging democracies in the region. She mentioned that positive developments in Tunisia are often ...

The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) hosted its 14th Annual Conference titled "Democratic Transitions in the Arab World" on May 29th, 2013. The conference included several panel discussions, one of which examined whether the Tunisian experience could succeed as a model for other post-revolution Arab countries and featured John Carey, Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College; Joelle Fiss, Senior Associate at Human Rights ...

The Center for the Study of Democracy's event titled "Democratic Transitions in the Arab World" featured a keynote speech by Rached Ghannouchi, founder and President of the Nahda Movement in Tunisia. Ghannouchi began by emphasizing that the success of Tunisia's democratic transition was important not just for Tunisia, but for the region as a whole. Ghannouchi pointed to his party's willingness to form a broad coalition with support from across ...

On Tuesday, May 28, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held an event titled “Institutional Reform in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.” The panel featured Ellen Lust an associate professor of political science at Yale University, Fredrick Wehrey a Senior Associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Jakob Wichmann founder of JWM Consulting. Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies and Director of the Middle ...

The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) held a panel discussion on the role of human rights in Tunisia’s constitution-writing process titled “Human Rights in Tunisia’s Transition: A View from the Field” featuring Amel Azzouz, a deputy in Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly from the Ennahda party; Amna Guellali, Human Rights Watch Tunisia Researcher; Stephen McInerney, Executive Director of POMED; and Joyce Kasee, ...

On Wednesday, March 20, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Georgetown University, and the Conflict Management Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies hosted a two-panel discussion featuring a delegation of prominent Tunisian academics. For complete event notes, continue reading or click here for the PDF. Daniel Brumberg, Senior Adviser at USIP and Co-Director of Georgetown University's Democracy and Civil Society Program, gave ...

POMED's Weekly Wire for March 11th is now available. This week we highlight the following top stories: Deputy Sec. of State Burns Attends Friends of Yemen Meeting Tunisia Announces New Cabinet U.S. Calls for Transparency in UAE Dissidents' Trial Egypt's Parliamentary Elections Delayed; Police Begin Strike Sen. Rubio Critical of Recently Pledged Egypt Aid To continue reading the full Weekly Wire, click here.

In the video above, Stephen Sackur interviews Rachid Ghannuchi, the president of Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at The Johns Hopkins University and the Maghreb Center hosted a conference titled "Constitutionalism and Human Rights in Tunisia: the Islamist-led Democratic Transition Post-Arab Spring." The opening remarks for the conference were conducted by Dr. Nejib Ayachi, President of the Maghreb Center, Dr. Mohammed Mattar, Executive Director of The Protection Project at SAIS, and Issam Saliba, Secretary of ...