SPLITS GROWING IN TUNISIAN UNIVERSITIES OVER PRESIDENTIAL POWER GRAB
October 2nd, 2021
Tunisia’s higher education system is split over whether to support the country’s President, now ruling by presidential decree without a suspended parliament, with earlier majority support for his summer takeover starting to ebb away.
When President Kais Saied took executive control of Tunisia in July, sacking the country’s former prime minister and freezing parliament, his actions were met with dancing in the streets, and attracted widespread student and academic support. But Saied’s revolutionary momentum at universities is slowing as the new academic ...
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