TUNISIA: TEN YEARS OF REVOLUTION
GUDRUN HARRER in conversation with HENDA CHENNAOUI
In the decade following the revolution, Tunisia organised local and national free elections and adopted a new constitution. Nevertheless, most Tunisians, especially the young generation, remain dissatisfied and angry, as little has changed for them in their daily life. Structural challenges, such as corruption, bureaucracy, social injustice, poverty, lack of health care and education persist despite of all the efforts of the civil society and people to push the political elite towards basic reforms, resulting in daily demonstrations. Is the time ripe to discuss the necessity of negotiating a new social contract for Tunisia? If so, how could it look like and what can the new generation do to impose it?
Henda Chennaoui, Tunesian blogger and freelance journalist. She has been one of the most important activists in the struggle for the rights and the empowerment of women since the beginning of the revolution in Tunesia.
Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor at Der Standard, Lecturer on Modern History and Politics of the Middle East, University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna