Protesters sit outside a tent near the entrance of the phosphate mine in Umm al-Arais, Tunisia, on February 15, 2018. Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters MER Article Tunisia’s Marginalized Redefine the Political Marginalized populations in Tunisia, who have little access to economic and political resources, sparked the 2011 protests that ousted the Ben Ali regime. In the following ten years, marginalized people, especially in rural areas, have continued to push for more jobs, better services and social just Sami Zemni • 11 min read
MER Article Maghreb From the Margins This issue of Middle East Report on “Maghreb From the Margins” addresses the evolving challenges that the peripheries are posing to power structures in Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and the Western Sahara. The Editors of Issue #298 • 6 min read
