Research
January 2026

Can China’s Bilateral Currency Swap Agreements Counter the IMF’s Hegemony in Africa?

Part 2: What Lessons for the Economic Sovereignty of Africa and Tunisia ? Abstract: In the first part of this article, we analyzed the monetary tool that is BCS currency swap agreements and attempted to critically assess their potential for..

Article
September 2025

Seeds of Dependency: The Silent War on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia

On his small farm in the region of Zaghouan, a 70-year-old farmer stands before a wooden box inherited from his father. The box holds small cloth bags, each containing seeds of crops that have been cultivated for decades on the..

Guide
January 2025

Special Issue : Water Desalination in North Africa

  Water scarcity has become an increasingly critical issue across North Africa, driven by climate change, population growth, and unsustainable resource management. Countries like Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco are facing unprecedented water stress, with per capita availability falling well below..

December 2024

Olfa Belhassine | Tunisian female textile workers: the rejects of Fast fashion

Tunisian Textile Workers: The Forgotten Ones of Fast Fashion Discover the challenges faced by Tunisian textile workers with Olfa Belhassine: harsh working conditions, precarity, and violence, as well as the economic impact and ongoing changes.

Article
December 2024

Desalination Projects in Tunisia: Fresh Water at What Cost?

Introduction: A Nation Running Dry   Pressure to find sustainable solutions  is mounting in Tunisia, where the average annual water consumption per person has dropped to its lowest rate. One of the country’s most ambitious responses is the construction of..

Research
December 2024

From colonization to Schengenisation

From colonization to Schengenisation: Socio-history of migrations from the Maghreb to Europe Introduction   In studying the postcolonial shift which, a few decades after the independence of the countries of the southern Mediterranean, gave rise to the emergence of the..

Article
August 2024

The Dark Side of Tunisia’s Phosphate Boom

As Kais Saied’s government tries to capitalize on demand for a critical mineral, the country’s environment and Gafsa Valley residents are suffering.   REDEYEF, Tunisia—In Tunisia’s Gafsa Valley, the desert takes on a different guise. Rather than the picturesque dunes..

Research
July 2024

Visa policies and the traumas of immobility

Visa policies and the traumas of immobility                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Translated by Roots prod ( translated from French to English : Borhen Hallek) Editorial design and illustration :Yessine Ouerghemmi   Man is born free. This assertion is common not only to modern..

Research
June 2024

Colonization, immigration, and borderization: Contemporary perspectives of the Moroccan and Tunisian left

This article aims to analyze the main discourse of political actors in the Tunisian and Moroccan left in regard to the migration issue. The evolution of this discourse will be examined between two key periods of immigration history from these..

Research
February 2024

Climate and environmental issues, evolving migration intentions and plans: Case study of coastal and artisanal fishing in the regions of Zarzis and Boughrara

Edited and reviewed by: Imen Louati (PhD) Translation from Arabic to English: Olfa Derbal   “The sea is not a forest.” This is how S.K.[1] describes maritime space in Tunisia and in Zarzis. The Mediterranean Sea has its own standards,..

Article
July 2023

How to talk about Climate Change in Tunisia? Overview and Perspectives

While there is now a significant body of literature that considers questions of climate change communication in the global north, there remains relatively little work that takes seriously how climate change messaging might need to be adapted to non-Western contexts..

Article
May 2023

Tunisia’s choice: bankruptcy under dictatorship or economic rebirth and democracy?

  By Bassem Snaije[1] and Francis Ghiles[2]   On March 27th, the newswires were abuzz with yet another tragic event in the Mediterranean. A frail boat carrying migrants attempting to reach Italian shores sank off the coast of Tunisia near..