During our stay in Tunis, at the end of one of our meetings before our coffee break, we were told that President Beji Caid Essebsi…
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We have just arrived back from our week in Tunisia and let me tell you, it was a great and memorable trip. Initially, I did…
“Tunisia or Morocco?” This is a question we were asked by Professor Lo and debated on many bus rides to and from the hotel. The…
I didn’t expect such a difference between Tunisia and Morocco, despite the fact that this program is titled Duke in the Arab World. And there…
This past week our group settled in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, to study its nascent democracy and to explore another, rather politically-unique, country in…
To be 100 percent honest, when I first heard we were going to Tunisia, I was a bit nervous. The embassy had been closing on…
My time in Tunisia made me feel like an intellectual, like I was important enough to meet the revolutionaries that contributed greatly to not only…
In the days leading up to departure to Tunis, I was extremely nervous, struggling to form any expectations about this country. Prior to DAW, i…
In between meetings we were given the opportunity to tour the Parliament, including the main chamber This past week we switched locations again as we…
We arrived in the Republic of Tunisia a week ago. I feel unqualified to write anything about the nation because I’ve spent most of my…