Dr. Amal Moussa

Dr. Amal Moussa
Poet, writer, and professor of sociology at University of Tunis

Politics, the Art of Courage

It is said that capital is fearful and that one who possesses money possesses fear as well. For this reason, we see that businessmen are marked by their caution and that they do not invest a cent unless they are certain returns will be exponential and all the guarantees are in place. This is how…

Bone-Breaking Battle in Tunisia

Tunisia’s stability and development are the first and final casualty of the ongoing weeks-long bone-breaking battle in the country. Fighting over who leads the ship as deadly storms surround it is not reasonable generally nor, under the assumption that politics is the art of administering reality…

2020, A Scourge and the Fall of Assumptions

We will bid farewell to this year and greet a new one in less than a week. The world spent three quarters of this year fighting the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic, and there are indications that this struggle will go on until further notice. One cannot talk about 2020 without referring to…

Cursed Democracy

There is an abundance of theorizing on populism. This abundance is symptomatic of an intellectual confusion about this rising phenomenon. If we examined it carefully, we would find that the discussion today on populism, whether in politics, theory, and the media, associates it to the word return, i…