Révélations de l’après révolution

The image of Nader Charroudy walking the streets of Sfax with his national ID card taped to his chest is not an anomaly. It is the logical outcome of a propaganda campaign orchestrated from the very top of the Tunisian state. Sfax, Tunisia — 2024. A man walks down a public street. He is a Tunisian citizen. He has papers. He has rights. He has a name: Nader Charroudy. And because his skin is…

Monday, June 8, 2026 Four weeks after the ruling issued by Chamber 23 of the Tunis Court of Appeal, which upheld the first-instance decision of Chamber 44 sentencing journalist Morad Zghidi to three and a half years in prison on charges of “money laundering,” a statement has been conveyed through his lawyer Ghazi Mrabet. A conviction experienced as a shock He describes the verdict as a…

A viral video from a sub-Saharan content creator strips away years of political mythology — and exposes the dangerous gap between fear, propaganda, and reality on Tunisia’s migration crisis. KEY HIGHLIGHTS A video by creator “Le Jeune Aventuriers” amassed 28,000 views and 730 reactions on June 7, 2026 President Saïed’s February 2023 “demographic conspiracy” speech triggered a wave of violence…

On June 3, 2026, a video began circulating across Tunisian social media. It purportedly shows a group of men attacking a pregnant sub-Saharan African woman in Sfax — stripping her, beating her, mocking her unborn child. By the next morning, the clip had been shared hundreds of times. By the time you read this, Tunisia’s government will not have said a word. We are told to wait. We are told not…

As Tunisia continues to navigate a period of political and social transformation, concerns are mounting over the growing pressure faced by civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and humanitarian actors. The case of Saâdia Mosbah, a prominent anti-racism activist and president of the association Mnemty, has become a symbol of these concerns. On June 2, 2026, as her appeal hearing…

Former Tunisian army officer Mohamed Hichem Meddeb recently published a 45-minute video that has attracted tens of thousands of views and hundreds of reactions. Presented as a warning about irregular migration, NGOs, and sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia, the video is passionate, alarmist, and emotionally charged. Yet after nearly three-quarters of an hour of accusations, suspicions, and…

Ahmed Saïdani’s return to public life after his release from prison raises an uncomfortable question for Tunisia: how can a figure once known for threatening political opponents now attempt to rebrand himself as a misunderstood patriot? In his lengthy statement following his release, Saïdani clearly tries to reshape his public image. He speaks about patriotism, integrity, respect for state…

For years after the 2011 revolution, Tunisia was presented as the lone democratic success story of the Arab Spring. People argued openly in cafés, criticized politicians on television, mocked ministers online, and protested in the streets without immediately fearing prison. The system was chaotic, inefficient, and often disappointing — but many Tunisians still felt they had something rare in the…

Executive Summary: On 21 May 2026 Tunisia’s Ministry of National Defense (MoD) issued a terse official statement asserting the army’s discipline and neutrality amid “repeated attempts to drag the military into political disputes”. The release reaffirms that the “National Army is a republican army based on discipline… tasked with defending the homeland and its unity, fully committed to neutrality…

Just when many Tunisians thought the wave of pressure against NGOs and independent associations had reached its limit, another suspension arrived. This week, the Social Accountability Association announced that authorities had ordered the suspension of its activities for 30 days. In its statement, the organization described the decision as an unjustified attack on civic work and on the right of…

Mohamed Hichem Meddeb, a former Tunisian army officer, has become one of the most widely circulated security commentators on Tunisian social media. His videos are long, structured, and delivered with a calm, authoritative tone that gives the impression of insider geopolitical analysis. In one of his widely shared videos on migration, he opens with a series of questions that set the direction of…

In a political climate increasingly marked by tension, fear, and growing restrictions on dissent, a new Tunisian citizen movement called “Nafas” — Arabic for “Breath” — has officially announced its launch. Framing itself as a peaceful and open civic initiative, the movement says it was born out of an urgent need to defend freedom of expression, independent journalism, and the public’s right to…

In Tunisia today, the debate over agriculture is no longer limited to harvests, rainfall, or food prices. It has become a deeper struggle over sovereignty itself — who controls the country’s food system, who owns the seeds planted in Tunisian soil, and who ultimately profits from the nation’s agricultural future. Critics argue that while the government speaks increasingly about “food…

On Saturday, May 16, 2026, the streets of downtown Tunis may once again become the stage for a familiar but increasingly tense political ritual: citizens marching to express frustration over the state of the country. A growing number of activists and independent voices have called for a large “citizen march” in the capital, denouncing worsening economic conditions, rising living costs,…

Disclaimer: The following reflects personal thoughts and analysis drawn from publicly available political commentary. It does not represent any institutional position, and the scenarios explored are speculative in nature. The author acknowledges the inherent uncertainty of political forecasting. There is a question hovering over Tunisian politics that most actors — inside the country and out —…

How a court too afraid of its own people handed a country to a foreign power — and why the pattern feels uncomfortably familiar. At 7:11 in the evening of 12 May 1881, inside the Ksar Saïd palace at Bardo on the outskirts of Tunis, Sadok Bey — Muhammad III as-Sadiq — pressed his seal onto a ten-article document he had been handed less than two hours earlier. He had not been given time to read it…

I have known Hamed El Matri for years. We worked together, and I can say with full confidence that he was one of the most genuinely funny, relentlessly hardworking, and deeply patriotic people I have ever had the privilege to share a workspace with. What I can also say — and this matters — is that in all the time I knew him, he was never involved in any political activities. Not once. For those…