Some of my publications

كيف تواجه التونسيات الرجعية والعنف المسلّط عليهنّ؟ 

مقال رأي نشر على موقع رصيف22  بتاريخ 22 سبتمبر .2022

آمنة الميزوني

خلال عشرية الثورة التونسية، شهدنا بعض التغييرات الإيجابية  والانتصارات الصغيرة لحقوق المرأة، لكن مع بداية العشرية الثانية، ومع  تفشّي الوباء، أصبحت التغييرات سلبيةً، ونسبة التراجع في الحقوق والحريات  أصبحت الكابوس الذي ينتاب الحقوقيات في تونس. تعيش البلاد في أول أيام  الدستور الجديد الذي يشرّع  استناداً إلى المقاصد الخمسة  (حفظ النفس، والدين، والمال، والعرض، والحرية بدل العقل)، في كل القوانين  والتشريعات، وإن تعارضت التشريعات والقوانين مع قراءة هذه المقاصد تنتفي  الحرية. لهذا، قررتُ كتابة هذا المقال ليس فقط للتعبير عن رأيي، بل لدعوة  الناشطات وحلفاء الحراك النسوي لكي يواصلن/ وا النضال. هذا المقال أردته  أيضاً توثيقاً للظلم المسلّط على النساء والعمل النسوي الجبار لمكافحته.  هذه وثيقة للأجيال القادمة لتعرف جيداً أن وجودها كفاح متواصل منذ الأزل،  وأن الطريق ليست سهلةً أمامنا لتحقيق التغيير الفكري اللازم وبلوغ برّ  المساواة التامة.

Tunisia—Towards the End of the Dream of Democracy - The Markaz Review August 01, 2022, Emna Mizouni

Last Monday, the 25th  of July, one year after Tunisia’s backslide, several hundred people  gathered in front of Tunis’ Municipal Theatre, men, women, elders, to  prematurely celebrate the President’s new constitution. The supporters’  reaction was a foregone conclusion given that the result was known  before voting even started. Unfair campaign practices, unethical  appointments to the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), and  other process questions left many Tunisians who did not make it to the  Municipal Theatre that day disenchanted or wilfully disengaged. Similar  to the jubilee of the 25th of July, 2021, the few supporters who did  gather were cheering to get rid of Ennahdha (the Islamic democratic  party) and the existing political class. For the celebrating protesters,  these politicians led the country to economic straits and didn’t truly  fulfill the aspirations of the 2011 revolution. Their joy contrasted  with a few days earlier, where, in the same location, hundreds of  citizen protesters standing against the same draft constitution were  brutally repressed by the police, with some arrested.

I joined this study for one reason, for a personal reason at the very  beginning, and it was a very good opportunity for me to do it under the  hat of Digital Citizenship, which is an initiative for internet users.  The most vulnerable internet users i.e. adolescent girls and women,  women journalists, women in politics, women activists, all of them. What  drove me into this was the need of understanding what was going wrong  in terms of our languages, whether they exist online or not, what the  burdens are, and then it turned into a more passionate journey to  understand that. So it was not only like serving the initiative, the  Digital Citizenship initiative, or serving the knowledge, but also going  into a journey of knowing what was happening in this giant internet,  and why we were absent, why we clearly were absent. As a knowledge  advocate that meant a lot for me.

In Tunisia, Wasta Kills When It Comes to Covid-19 - The Markaz Review

Jun 15, 2021, Emna Mizouni

Tunisia was among the first countries in the world to take severe measures to fight the Covid-19 virus. Flights were cancelled gradually until there was a total shutdown, and all sorts of public gatherings such as conferences, cinema and theatre were cancelled — although not football games! Soon after these measures, the government declared a curfew, followed by a general lockdown. In early June 2020, the country started to open up with a targeted lockdown. At the time, Tunisia was registering zero cases. A mandatory quarantine on all arrivals from abroad was established, yet the political system, as fragile as it is, lifted this mandatory confinement to help declining tourism and consequently the economy. It was a victory that didn’t last.

"Loujain al-Hathloul deserves her freedom. They all deserve freedom" Raseef22, Tuesday 12 March 2019

International Women’s Day is the one day set aside in the calendar for the celebration of the women’s movement. My own celebration will be muted this year, however, as I cannot help but notice the absence of a vibrant part of our movement - the detained Saudi women’s rights activists. In spite of incredible adversity, the Saudi feminist movement has been an example of the strength of women activists in the Arab region. I am deeply proud of the legacy of women’s activism in the region, and especially my own country, Tunisia. Women were in the forefront of the protesters during the 2011 revolution. I draw strength from that success and the solidarity of the global women’s movement. But even when I consider the power that women’s activism has shown against great odds, I can only feel hopeless and devastated for the situation of the Saudi women's rights defenders, among them my friend Loujain al-Hathloul.