The 2019 election of Kais Saied, an obscure constitutional law professor who rose to power as Tunisia’s third president since the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, was a watershed moment in the country’s transition from nascent democracy to authoritarianism. In a relatively short time, the country has gone from corrupt dictatorship […]
Tunisian Democracy Put on Pause
The country’s president has reversed years of progress.
