10 years after the Arab Spring, what place for civil societies in the Maghreb?

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Arab revolutions, like here in Egypt on February 9, 2011, Reuters / Suhaib Salem

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

50 min

After two decades of repressive power, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown on January 14, 2011 by a popular movement which provoked aftershocks in several countries in the region.

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10 years after the beginning of the Arab Spring, the evils which had pushed populations into the streets: unemployment, precariousness, injustice… are still present.

What remains of these popular revolts?

What was the place of civil societies in the transformations?

Decryption in three Maghreb countries: Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.

Martin Pericard

, project manager at the

French Development Agency (AFD)

- co-author of

The “hidden” face of civil societies in the Maghreb "(L'aube)

Adnane Addioui

, co-founder of 

the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE)

, an incubator and an NGO dedicated to finding innovative solutions and promoting social entrepreneurship, in Rabat, Morocco

Fatiha Hamadache

, treasurer, project manager and founding member of SOS Culture Bab El oued, an association which provides cultural and leisure activities for children as well as tutoring courses in Algiers, Algeria

Selim Kharrat,

political scientist, president of the NGO Al Bawsala, an independent observatory of Tunisian political life 

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