Speakers
Fida Adely
Professor & Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Zaid Al-Ali
Independent constitutional scholar specializing in Arab and Middle East constitutional reform
Elyes Ghanmi
Consultant on Mediterranean politics; Founder, Tunisian Institute for the Training of Elected Officials (TITEO)
Nizar Jouini
Associate Professor of Public Economics and PhD program coordinator, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Allison McCulloch
Professor of Political Science, Brandon University
Elton Skendaj
Associate Teaching Professor and Director, Democracy and Governance Program, Georgetown University
Sarah Yerkes
Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator
Killian Clarke
Assistant Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
About the Event
Arab Center Washington DC, Georgetown University’s Democracy and Governance MA Program, and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies invite you to a roundtable on the interim findings of Georgetown University Qatar’s Tunisia Study Group. Convened in spring 2025, the study group examines the social, economic, political, institutional, and ideological forces that shaped Tunisia’s “Fractured Transition.”
Experts will examine Tunisia’s transition from 2011 to 2021 within a broader comparative framework, highlighting the challenges that emerge when political transitions are built around elite power-sharing arrangements and negotiated pacts. Drawing on the interim findings of the study, participants will discuss the different dynamics that shaped Tunisia’s experience, as well as the difficult choices leaders face in sustaining democratic progress amid persistent domestic divisions, regional pressures, and competing visions of national identity.
Lunch will be served to in-person attendees at 11:30 AM, followed by the presentation and panel discussion at noon.
Featured image credit: Dodos photography via Wikimedia Commons
