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9/11: A Quarter Century of Imperial War

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-09-11T10:03:06Z

“Absolutely, I hold on to hope, hope rooted in the new generation and its capacity to invent new forms of struggle, as we have seen recently with the Moroccan Gen Z movement, an extraordinary moment, with thousands of young people mobilising and using modern technology to coordinate their action. I make a crucial distinction between optimism and hope, they are not the same thing at all. Optimism is the belief that the best outcome will happen. Hope is the belief that a better outcome is possible, with no guarantee attached. I can keep hoping, while recognising that today the balance of evidence weighs heavily toward pessimism.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Syria, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen

Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

Akssil Tunisie — 2026-08-09T08:31:36Z

Tunisia has recently seen a wave of protests resulting from the difficult living conditions the country's inhabitants have endured for several decades, which have gradually worsened. The situation became particularly unsustainable during the month of July, with residents regularly confronted with the policy of recurrent water cuts during the summer in the central regions (governorates of Kairouan, Sousse, Monastir and Mahdia). These four governorates have experienced 31 demonstrations and road blockades in 2024, then 15 demonstrations and blockades in 2025.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Tunisia, Public services

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman

From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-01-14T16:20:36Z

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, (…)

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Arab Revolutions

Support the prisoners, stop the repression in Tunisia

Édouard Soulier — 2025-12-30T07:23:04Z

Fifteen years after the start of the Tunisian revolution, the authoritarian regime established by Kais Saied is increasing arrests, unfair trials and repression against all civil society. In the face of this offensive, international solidarity is more necessary than ever.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Tunisia, Protest movements

The Gulf of Gabès between pollution and successive policies of marginalization

Collective — 2025-11-05T08:52:00Z

The Gabès chemical complex was created in 1972 to transform raw phosphate extracted from the Gafsa mines into manufactured chemicals, ready for use in industry and agriculture, such as "phosphoric acid", ammonite, ammonium phosphate and ammonium diphosphate fertilizer.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Tunisia

Morocco's Gen Z and the Regional Volcano

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-10-22T13:55:50Z

The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Tunisia, Morocco, Youth and student movements

Towards a return to dictatorship in Tunisia?

S. Mousakaran — 2024-05-23T05:19:48Z

“More than a decade after the revolution, a climate of fear has returned to Tunisia, where freedom of expression seemed just a few years ago to be the only achievement.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Tunisia

A slow collapse in Tunisia

Édouard Soulier — 2024-02-02T05:58:00Z

“The country's disastrous political and economic situation is driving people to Europe, and for several months now Tunisia has also been a transit country for crossings.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Tunisia, Migration

Negrophobia in Tunisia: structural racism and imperialist export

Édouard Soulier — 2023-07-13T08:01:00Z

For several months now, black people living in Tunisia have been subjected to attacks, firings and expulsions, against a backdrop of the fight against illegal immigrants.

- IV582 - July 2023 / Tunisia, Migration, Racism and Islamophobia