Author: Hamadi Redissi | Journal of Democracy

Hamadi Redissi is professor of law and political science at the University of Tunis, El Manar, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale University.

July 2011, Volume 22, Issue 3

The Upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia: Ben Ali’s Fall

Peter J. Schraeder
Hamadi Redissi

The wave of unrest that swept through the Arab world at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 originated in Tunisia. What happened— and what are the prospects that Tunisia will make a successful transition to democracy?

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.