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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast. I'm Ritaka Singh. In this episode, the Saban

Center for Middle East Policy and Brookings hosted Ratchad Ghanuchi, co-founder and president

of Tunisia's Nakhda Party for an address on the future of Tunisian democracy. Vice President

Martin Indik, director of the foreign policy program, provided introductory remarks and

Saban Center director Tamara Wittis moderated the discussion.

Mr. Ghanuchi's address covered the progress Tunisia has made since the Arab Awakening began,

in the wake of difficult economic times, the war in Libya, and extremist violence within

its borders. The discussion also covered the different Islamist movements in the region,

and the lessons Tunisia's revolution can teach us about prospects for successful democratic

transitions elsewhere in the Arab world.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Brookings. I'm Martin Indik, the director

of the foreign policy program at Brookings. I'm delighted to have an opportunity to introduce

very distinguished speaker this morning for an event that is sponsored and organized by

our Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

Russia Ghanuchi is probably by now well-known to all of you. I dare say that wasn't the case

a few years ago when his intellectual contributions as a great Muslim thinker got little attention

in the West. That was until the revolution that began in Tunisia and spread across the Arab world.

And it's particularly important that what began in Tunisia continues in Tunisia in a very

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