by Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Sep 29, 2026 | International
It is “on the forgotten shore where the thought of measure was born” that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical “finds its deepest roots”, writes Ghazi Ben Ahmed, founder of the Mediterranean Development Initiative and a scientific collaborator at the ULB. With this text,...
by Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Sep 29, 2026 | MENA (Middle East & North Africa)
In the face of divisions over French identity and fruitless debates on Islam, this essay proposes a third way. From Clitomachus to Youssef Seddik, via Augustine, Ibn Khaldun and Camus, it reinterprets the Maghreb and Mediterranean borderlands as the cradle of a...
by Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Mar 30, 2026 | Economy, MENA (Middle East & North Africa), News, Politics
Brent crude settled at $79.45 on March 1 — before the strike on the Ras Tanura refinery operated by Saudi Aramco, before major shipping lines suspended transit through the Strait of Hormuz, and before mounting security alerts signaled that this narrow waterway –...
by Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Mar 30, 2026 | News
Dear fellow citizens, devoted patriots, As we enter the new year of 2026, my dearest wish is for the salvation of our homeland. Tunisia stands at a crossroads: we must, above all, save it from bankruptcy, but also rid it of the poison of hatred and polarisation that...
by Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Dec 4, 2025 | MENA (Middle East & North Africa), News, Politics
Since independence, Tunisia has continuously sought to define the contours of an identity that is truly its own—both freed from the weight of colonial domination and liberated from reductive interpretations. The notion of “Tunisianity” belongs to this quest: not a...
