Larbi Sadiki | 18 July 2022
Tunisia Decides: A Constitutional Referendum-or a Referendum on Saied? Tunisians and outside observers wait anxiously for 25 July, when President Kais Saied plans to hold a referendum on his new constitution. This 25 July [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 24 August 2021
“Cyber Protest”: The Hidden Face-book of Tunisia’s July 25 Tunisia’s president does not have a Facebook account. Kais Saied comes from humble origins. At university, he had qualms with the professoriate from the largely [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 03 February 2021 | AR
As Arabs mark the tenth anniversary of their uprisings, scholars find endless interpretations of how to read them. Transitologists are yet to find their Godot – Arab Spring “democracy”. Ten years have been fraught with more counter-revolution than revolution? And of more authoritarian rule than democracy?
Larbi Sadiki | 30 December 2020 | TR | AR
Narratives matter in politics, and the narratives of the powerful tend to reinforce their international supremacy. Barack Obama’s latest contribution to the American presidential memoir genre will likely carry significance beyond a truthhood-falsity barometer we have grown accustomed to use with the epithets, statements, and Tweets of the sitting President Donald Trump
Larbi Sadiki | 07 October 2020 | TR | AR
Under the “Trump Deal”, the recent brand of normalization of one-Arab-state-at-a-time with Israel has neglected issues of Palestinian justice and right to statehood. This paper argues that these glaring omissions,
Larbi Sadiki | 26 August 2020 | AR | TR
Under a cloud of uncertainty, Tunisians have been awaiting the formation of a third government since the fall 2019 elections. This article discusses the failure of both political parties and politicians at bargain politics or enacting
