Nadia Marzouki is a tenured research fellow in political science at CNRS-Sciences Po in Paris.
Volunteers from an NGO clean the streets of Tunis while garbage collectors are on strike, January 16, 2014. Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe musician Lotfi Gharbi plays piano in a street in Bizerte to protest the accumulation of garbage, 2016. (The image circulated widely on social media without attribution and a video of the performance can be seen on YouTube.)Sarcastic graffiti of a skater who is casting his ballot in a Tunis office where it is written “secret ballot,” but the ballot is instead going into a trash can, 2019, Tunis. Thierry Monasse/Getty ImagesTunisians go on strike in Tunis on November 10, 2021, after the death of a demonstrator from tear gas inhalation during protests against the reopening of a garbage dump in Agareb. Hasan Mrad/Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Volunteers from an NGO clean the streets of Tunis while garbage collectors are on strike, January 16, 2014. Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe musician Lotfi Gharbi plays piano in a street in Bizerte to protest the accumulation of garbage, 2016. (The image circulated widely on social media without attribution and a video of the performance can be seen on YouTube.)Sarcastic graffiti of a skater who is casting his ballot in a Tunis office where it is written “secret ballot,” but the ballot is instead going into a trash can, 2019, Tunis. Thierry Monasse/Getty ImagesTunisians go on strike in Tunis on November 10, 2021, after the death of a demonstrator from tear gas inhalation during protests against the reopening of a garbage dump in Agareb. Hasan Mrad/Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
