Tunisia in turmoil: Split over anti-US violence

It’s where the Arab Spring began. Now will Tunisia’s moderate Islamist Ennhada party come out more forcefully against hardliners as a result of anti-US attacks? To some, the transitional government is overwhelmed by events; to others, it’s hostage to those in its midst who condone the hardliners.

DEBATE

Moncef CHEIKH ROUHOU. Member of Tunisia's Progressive Democratic Party (from Tunis);
Jalila HEGHLI-PEUGNET. President, Think Ahead for Tunisia;
Adnane BEN YOUSSEF. Representative of the Aljoumhouri Party in France;
Steve McINERNEY. Executive Director, Project on Middle East Democracy (from Washington).

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Shamira Muhammad.

Watch the second part here.

Presenter

François Picard

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Clashes in Cairo

Does it have to end badly? Cairo this Wednesday was rocked by charging camels and hours of pitched battles between pro and anti-Mubarak supporters. François Picard's panel argues over the next move of the president, the army and the opposition. (Photo credit: Mehdi Chebil).

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge (part 2)

Hosni Mubarak remains in charge but if Tuesday's million man march lives up to its billing, the France 24 Debate wonders if he can still hang on. If not, who to fill his shoes? Answers range from the secular opposition to Islamists and the army.

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge

31/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what? (part 2)

Despite Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reshuffling his cabinet and appointing his first ever vice-president, there's no let-up in the protests calling for him to go. François Picard's panel debates what the role of the army could be in a transition process, and who of the civilian and Islamist opposition is best placed to take the reins of the Arab world's most populous nation.