By Adam Hanieh [1] Exactly 10 years on, how should we understand the root causes of the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa? At the time, many commentators and policy-makers answered this question with...
Tag - Monetary Sovereignty
Mohamed HADDAD
Looking back, looking forward: to inherit a revolution
By Miriyam Aouragh & Hamza Hamouchene Around a year ago we were reminiscing about how a decade had passed since the mass protests in Alexandria (Egypt) in June 2010 against the police murder of a young Egyptian...
فريق بر الامان La rédaction de Barr al Aman
Tunisia joins forces to save global capital
Unsurprisingly, Tunisia is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis amid the covid19 outbreak. The newly elected government headed by Elyes Fakhfakh decided on March 22nd to impose an early general lockdown on...
Maha Ben Gadha
The CFA Franc, the Saga of a (neo)colonial currency
Bustling is the history of the CFA Franc. While some believe that this divisive currency should be resting in the old collections of numismatists fond of colonial history, the CFA franc still runs today in the veins of...
Hafawa Rebhi
Tunisian dinar: a state-building story (AUDIO)
Mohamed Haddad interviewed Myriam Amri at the end of the conference about her ongoing research (Arabic): In her exposé titled the Making of the Dinar producing the State in Postcolonial Tunisia, Myriam Amri explores the...
