Christine Bustany

May 28, 2024 | timep.org | Lamine Benghazi |Maroun M Sfeir |Mostafa Al-a'sar |Christine Bustany

With an anticipated turnout of half the world’s population at the ballot boxes this year, Tunisian voters are gearing up for their third presidential election since the 2011 Revolution. However, against the backdrop of an authoritarian turn initiated by President Saied since July 25, 2021, the upcoming 2024 presidential elections in Tunisia present a starkly different political landscape from its predecessors.

Mar 28, 2024 | timep.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar |Nader Durgham |Christine Bustany

Read this article in Arabic. “Sent from Samsung device” is the iconic sentence that sums up the current state of the media in Egypt, where security officers control nearly all of the content Egyptians are allowed to consume. There were many things I had to catch up on in 2021. I was just released from prison after spending three and a half years behind bars as a political prisoner.