Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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Interview with Moncef Marzouki
''We Don't Have a Magic Wand''
Ahead of his visit to Germany, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki told Sarah Mersch that his country could take a leaf out of Europe's book as it struggles with the transition to democracy and that Tunisia would welcome help from Germany in a number of areas
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Interview with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki
"Tunisia is attempting a democratic reconstruction"
One has to be prepared to work with the Islamists for the sake of social peace, says the Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki. He told Edith Kresta and Renate Fisseler-Skandrani that this applies even if some of them reject democracy
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Tunisia after Ben Ali
A Revolution on the Road to Democracy
Unemployment and corruption are still the biggest hurdles on the way to democracy in Tunisia. Fathi Ayadi of the Tunisian Ennahda party says what is now needed is a culture of political consensus
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Political Prospects after the Arab Spring
At a Crossroads
In the opinion of the acclaimed Lebanese author Elias Khoury, after the toppling of the old regimes, Arab societies are now heading towards either lasting democratic change or a return to dictatorship by another name
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Democratisation and Economic Development in Tunisia and Egypt
Looking for a Third Way
The democratic future of Tunisia and Egypt depends on their economic development. Privatisations such as those envisaged by the IMF and the World Bank will be disastrous for the two nations, which should now be looking to find a third way. A commentary by Akram Belkaïd
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Mohamed Talbi
''Religious Dogmas Terrorize the Spirit''
The Tunisian intellectual Mohamed Talbi is regarded as one of the most critical leading thinkers in the Arab world. In his most recently published book, he denounces traditional Islamic religious scholars and argues for a contemporary reading of the Koran. Rachid Boutayeb introduces Mohamed Talbi