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Experts & Staff
Hamza Meddeb
ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Tunisia, Tunisia-Libya border region, political economy in North Africa
Languages
Arabic, French and English
Biography
Hamza Meddeb is a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He was a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (2015- 2016) and a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (2013-2015). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris in 2012. His research focuses on the political economy of democratic transition in Tunisia as well as the political economy of insecurity in North Africa.
He is the author of “Smugglers, Tribes and Militias. The rise of local forces in the Tunisian-Libyan border region” (in Inside wars, MED program e-book, EUI, RSCAS, 2016) and the co-author of “L’Etat d’injustice au Maghreb. Maroc et Tunisie, Karthala, 2015, (With Irene Bono, Beatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy) and “Market for Jihad. Radicalization in Tunisia”, Carnegie paper, 2015 (With Georges Fahmi).
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In the media
Hamza Meddeb is quoted in “L'Express” regarding Tunisia and terrorism
The Guardian refers to a recent ECFR report authored by Hamza Meddeb on Tunisia's fragile democracy, available here.
Hamza Meddeb on how offering Tunisia the European Economic Area membership could help saving the fragile Tunisian democracy
Hamza Meddeb is quoted in “Directinfo” regarding the Tunisian situation six years after the Arab Springs
An interview with ECFR visiting fellow Hamza Meddeb on Tunisia's “No Future” generation