Assembly politics and green Orientalism
by ST McNeil
The National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia is an old Ottoman-era building. Soldiers in jungle green uniforms check visitors to the main gate behind nests of barbed wire below blooming bougainvillea. Last year, I was on the outside of this building covering a protest to specific wording in the constitution regarding women—this, as any student of the Philadelphia Congress knows well, is a time of fierce ideological debates. The foundational document of Tunisia’s new experiment is democracy is being forged right [...]
Categories: Africa, Africa North, Middle East, Tunisia, Uncategorized
