Protesters sit outside a tent near the entrance of the phosphate mine in Umm al-Arais, Tunisia, on February 15, 2018. Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters Current Analysis 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_258_cover_blackbackground Current Analysis Revisiting MERIP Coverage of the Arab Uprisings Revolutions are the singular political events that “confront us directly and inevitability with the problem of beginning,” argued Hannah Arendt. MERIP’s coverage of the uprisings of 2011 struggled intensely with this conundrum while cross-regional mobilizations, alliances and confrontations emerged The Editors • 5 min read
