Pour marquer la fin de 2012, une année plutôt chaotique pour une Tunisie en pleine transition politique, le ministre des Finances tunisien a organisé un événement spectaculaire : une vente aux enchères publique des biens de l`ancien président Ben Ali provenant de son palais privé à Sidi Dhr..
Laryssa Chomiak and Robert P. Parks
Laryssa Chomiak is a political scientist, completing a book on the politics of dissent under Ben Ali and working on a new project entitled, Dictator Chic: How First Ladies of Despots Keep Fashion Houses in Business
Robert P. Parks is the Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie. He received his Ph.D. in political science in May 2011, which was based on several years of qualitative research in Algeria and Tunisia. His research has been published in The Middle East Journal, The Arab Reform Bulletin, and he contributed to The Politics of Islamic Finance (2004). He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on local-national relations in the Maghreb and is currently writing book on state building processes in Algeria and Tunisia, examined from the bottom-up.