Author: Cathrin Schaer & Tarak Guizani

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Tunisian security officers and police patrol the site of the deadly attack (image: Hasan Mrad/ZUMA Press Wire/picture alliance)

Synagogue shooting in Tunisia

What next for Djerba?

Jews on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba, where a gunman killed five people last week during a Jewish pilgrimage, are asking why – and what happens next. By Cathrin Schaer and Tarak GuizaniMore

The Jewish community in Tunisia: "Everything is ok; we don't have any problems"Muslims and Jews in the Maghreb: A whispered historyTunisia in turmoil: Will Tunisians rise up against Kais Saied?Tourism in North Africa: Tentative recovery, or too little, too late?
Anti-Saied demonstration in Tunisia (image: AFP)

Tunisia in turmoil

Will Tunisians rise up against Kais Saied?

Voter turnout for parliamentary elections in Tunisia at the end of January 2023 was so low it broke world records. Tunisians are dispirited and a wannabe authoritarian leads the country. What now for the endangered democracy? By Cathrin Schaer and Tarak GuizaniMore

Kais Saied's creeping coup: Who will save Tunisia's democracy now?Migration from Tunisia: Why many young Tunisians set their sights on EuropeParliamentary election in Tunisia: Tunisia's undemocratic drift
Symbolic image of an elderly woman in care (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Health and ageing

Middle East and North Africa unprepared for coming dementia epidemic

By 2050, the Middle East and North Africa could be dealing with many more elderly people suffering from dementia. A lack of facilities, specialists and local knowledge means the region is woefully underprepared. By Cathrin Schaer, Tarak Guizani and Mohammed MagdyMore

COVID-19 in the Middle East: Playing down pandemic death tollsHealth and immigration in Germany: Language barriers to psychotherapy for immigrantsCannabis and Islam? There is no one single answerTahar Ben Jelloun's "Yemma": "Not Crazy, Merely Gone Away"
Protesting against President Kais Saied in Tunis (photo: AA/picture-alliance)

Tunisia's political future

Kais Saied's divisive online poll

Tunisia's first-ever digital survey on a new constitution is key to Tunisian President Kais Saied's path out of a political crisis. But as with Saied himself, reactions to the online innovation have been mixed. By Cathrin Schaer and Tarak GuizaniMore

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