Since the assassination of Chokri Belaid, Tunisia is living the most difficult stage of its revolutionary transition. Even before the murder of Belaid, a long institutional crisis had kept the country in limbo with the prolonged absence of a constitution. Belaid’s death pushed it on the edge of ..
Fabio Merone and Francesco Cavatorta
Fabio Merone is an independent researcher and correspondent for NenaNews based in Tunisia where he has lived for the past ten years. He is working on a manuscript (in Italian) on the Tunisian transition and he is currently a research associate on a project on Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Francesco Cavatorta is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on processes of political change in the Arab world and on the role of Islamist parties and movements. He has published his work in a number of journals including Democratization, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies,Government and Opposition, Mediterranean Politicsand Journal of North African Studies. He is also the author of four books, including Civil Society and Democratisation in the Arab World: the Dynamics of Activism, co-authored with Vincent Durac and published by Routledge in 2010. Click here to visit his website.