Marzouki moncef biography samples
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"It may not be easy to change the world, but it is criminal not to try."
On October 6th, Moncef Marzouki visited Fletcher for the first installment of Shapers, the Dean's Lecture Series. The first democratically-elected President of Tunisia after its uprising in , Marzouki offered personal reflections on the Arab Spring to an audience of students and faculty.
We spoke with President Marzouki after the event to learn more about his perspectives on revolution and democratization.
The Fletcher School: What stands out about the current protest movement in Iran? Are events in Iran connected to the experience of the Arab World after ?
Moncef Marzouki: I’ll tell you a story from I spoke with the then-Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for two hours at the Islamic Summit. I knew that the Iranian government was extremely upset by our revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. They believed there would be contagion, so we Tunisians were wary of Iranian intervention.
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Building a Tunisian model for Arab democracy
Tunis, Tunisia – In a country still writhing with revolutionary sentiment and a deep distrust of politicians, this country’s president is no longer bubble-wrapped in the comfort of unquestioning obedience from a subservient population, unlike presidents of the past.
As a democrat and a human rights activist, Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki is an anomaly in a distrikt accustomed to strongmen.
| President Moncef Marzouki Joined the Tunisian League for Human Rights in , elected the organisation’s president in Imprisoned three times for his political activism during the s First ran for president in , in an act of protest against Ben Ali Founded the centre-left, secularist Congress for the Republic in Initiated the “Call of Tunis” agreement, bringing together parties opposed to the regime, including the Islamist Ennahdha Returned from exile in France on January 18, Tunisia’s fourth president since independence, Marzouki was • Introduction Tunisian Interim President Moncef Marzouki is facing strong criticism in the country. Marzouki, nicknamed "Tartour" (in Arabic "insignificant," indicating someone who can be pushed in any direction), is accused of backing down on human rights issues in order to maintain the status quo with the El-Nahda Islamist party, which holds a relative majority that it won in the Tunisian elections. He is also accused of having evolved from a defender of human rights to the champion of Qatar – a country viewed by Tunisia's secular opposition as El-Nahda's main financier and as a supporter of Islamism in the country.
Marzouki, who refers to the secular opposition in the country as "secular extremists," stirred up controversy when, in an April 11, speech, he warned the Tunisian people not to insult Qatar.[2] He said that anyone who dares to do so will be accountable first to his own conscience and then before the law.[3] A Facebook page |