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Has the Tunisian Constitution recently changed on the question of Islam?
Date of source: Friday, March 14, 2025
Over the past few days, a number of Facebook posts have claimed that the new Tunisian Constitution has removed the reference to Islam as the state religion. What exactly is this about?
Tunisia - ‘Instalingo’ case: The justice system is being used to its advantage and the verdict is out of line
Date of source: Monday, February 10, 2025
On 5 February 2025, the Second Criminal Chamber of the Tunis Court of First Instance handed down sentences totalling more than 700 years' imprisonment to the defendants in the “Instalingo” case, a veritable judicial saga marked by grotesque twists and turns. This trial seems to foreshadow a series...
"With bread, terrorism, and democracy issues settled…who will rule Tunisia after as-Sibsī?"
Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Tunisians vote on Sunday in the second presidential elections since the 2011 uprising to determine the successor of the late Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi [Muhammad al-Bājī Qā’id as-Sibsī], who died in January of this year. While a diverse group of 26 candidates representing various factions of...
19. Clerics Condemn Suicide as Un-Islamic
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Inspired by Tunisian Muhammad Bu‘Āzīzī, who burned himself and thereby triggered the Tunisian “Jasmine Revolt,” several Egyptians have set themselves ablaze during the last week. “Egypt has not witnessed this phenomenon before, and never saw murder and killings like now,” said Shaykh Salāh ‘Abū...
18. Islamists: Stability Depends on Reforms
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2011
The Egyptian Gazette reports that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood groups says that the same reasons and motivations that caused the recent uprising in Tunisia are present in Egypt, as well. They perceive the Tunisian developments as a message to oppressive Arab leaders and call the Egyptian government...
40. Self-immolation causes religious ire
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
  The article discusses the Tunisia inspired self-torching in Egypt, which has so far been limited to Muslim men. It emphasized that “all the divine religions condemn a person, who commits suicide as a non-believer”. Furthermore, the article at hand points out that since the Tunisia events suicide...
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