Youssef Cherif
I set up and run the Columbia Global Centers | Tunis, Columbia University's outpost in north and west Africa. I am also a Tunis-based political analyst, member of the Carnegie Civic Activism Network, and a regular commentator and contributor to number of think-tanks (Carnegie Endowment for Internal Peace, IEMed, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Valdai Club...) and media outlets (France 24, RFI, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Express FM...). I consulted previously for IWPR, IACE, the United Nations, The Carter Center, etc., and I am a former (associate) expert at the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES)
Also a proud alumnus of the University of Tunis el-Manar, Columbia University, King's College London and the University of London, Fulbright and Chevening. My education background is mixed: Ancient History and Archaeology on one side (BA, Tunis el-Manar; MA, Columbia), International Relations and Political Science (MA, KCL) on the other.
Also a proud alumnus of the University of Tunis el-Manar, Columbia University, King's College London and the University of London, Fulbright and Chevening. My education background is mixed: Ancient History and Archaeology on one side (BA, Tunis el-Manar; MA, Columbia), International Relations and Political Science (MA, KCL) on the other.
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coopted by the system, unlike parties in Algeria, Morocco or Jordan for instance. They
were not easily manipulated as their Egyptian counterparts. They were not hereditary
family turfs or ethnic movements, such as the case in Lebanon or Pakistan. There was a
vibrant political life, and it seemed as if everything was politicized in the country.
Yet, from mid-2021 and until March 2023, Tunisia is a republic without a parliament
and where political parties have no weight. The questions that we will try to address in
this chapter are: what went wrong? How come the seemingly powerful political parties
-such as Ennahda- vanished in front of the party-less president who is Kais Saied? To try
to answer, we will focus on the role of parties and their work in parliament before and after
2011, then we will look at the popular expectations after 2011 and how the parliamentary
system has developed since then. Finally, we will attempt to explain what all this means for
the Tunisian political system and what it might look like in the future.
Volume produced in the frame of the New-Med Research Network.
Papers by Youssef Cherif
coopted by the system, unlike parties in Algeria, Morocco or Jordan for instance. They
were not easily manipulated as their Egyptian counterparts. They were not hereditary
family turfs or ethnic movements, such as the case in Lebanon or Pakistan. There was a
vibrant political life, and it seemed as if everything was politicized in the country.
Yet, from mid-2021 and until March 2023, Tunisia is a republic without a parliament
and where political parties have no weight. The questions that we will try to address in
this chapter are: what went wrong? How come the seemingly powerful political parties
-such as Ennahda- vanished in front of the party-less president who is Kais Saied? To try
to answer, we will focus on the role of parties and their work in parliament before and after
2011, then we will look at the popular expectations after 2011 and how the parliamentary
system has developed since then. Finally, we will attempt to explain what all this means for
the Tunisian political system and what it might look like in the future.
Volume produced in the frame of the New-Med Research Network.