Once regarded as the sole democracy to have emerged from the mass protests of the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia is today voting on a newly minted constitution that analysts fear could be the final nail ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia's new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power. This week, ...

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In 2011, in the first and only successful Arab Spring revolution, Tunisians overthrew their dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. That's when I first met journalist Amna (ph).

The Arab Spring has ended in total ruin. I don’t just mean that it has failed to deliver the freedoms for which its authors hoped in 2011. I mean, it has, from a very low base, made life even worse in ...

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TUNIS — In massive numbers, voters in Tunisia shunned parliamentary elections seen as an important test for their president and their country’s troubled democracy, according to preliminary turnout ...

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This week, the last democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring came to a sputtering end. Voters in Tunisia passed a constitutional referendum giving President Kais Saied near-total power, weakening an ...

Once regarded as the sole democracy to have emerged from the mass protests of the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia on Tuesday passed a newly minted constitution that analysts fear could be the final nail ...