Tunisia, the last Arab democracy, goes under

After the Arab Spring, Tunisia’s revolution survived, but it did not thrive, with 10 governments in the past 11 years.

Last July, Tunisia’s usurper president, Kais Saied, dismissed the prime minister, suspended parliament, and began ruling by decree. This week, he emerged victorious in a constitutional referendum that makes all these changes permanent, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 28, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third-highest in all of Africa’s 50 countries, just behind Morocco and South Africa. Literacy is 97 per cent among the under-30s, population growth is only one per cent a year, and it’s a democracy that f...

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