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…
Duke In The Arab World 2019
My experience in Tunisia was unforgettable. We were only there for one week, so we weren’t able to explore much of Tunis, where we spent…
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…
Monday July 29th, 2019 We sat in a meeting room in the Committee of Finance building, each of us fiddling with the official-looking leather binders…
As Thursday rolled around, students of Duke in the Arab world embarked on their third day of conferences at the “Week of Insight and Experiences…
Written by Grayson Real and Ayoub Mahdar Today marked the end of our “Democratization in Tunisia” Conference. Syrine Cherif, an ex-communications agency manager and currently…
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…
On the ruins of Fez with two Medina Residents we made friends with at ALIF Ahhh Fez … As my first taxi driver in Morocco…
