Aymen Abderrahmen

Aymen Abderrahmen is a program coordinator within the Leadership Practice at IREX in Washington D.C. Previously, he worked with Georgetown University, the Eurasia Foundation, BBC Media Action, and Search for Common Ground. Aymen served as the TIMEP-Atlas Corps Bassem Sabry Democracy Fellow in 2017 and published several commentary pieces on transitional justice and the state of human rights in Tunisia. He graduated from the University of Tunis El Manar with a degree in English language and civilization, later studying international relations. Aymen is a co-founder and the first Secretary-General of I-Watch Tunisia, an anti-corruption organization. You can follow him on Twitter at @Aymen_BA.

Articles by: Aymen Abderrahmen

Tunisia 10 Years Later: Is Kamour the New Sidi Bouzid?

Sidi Bouzid was the birthplace of an uprising that created the needed epistemological rupture for Tunisia’s civil society to shift from a disguised opposition to one of blunt advocacy and contribution to...

How Tunisia’s “Two Sheikhs” Sought to Halt Transitional Justice

In the four years since the truth commission was formed, Tunisia’s most prominent political forces—known among Tunisians as “the two sheikhs”—have worked to undermine transitional justice.