Raphael Lefevre

Raphaël Lefevre is a graduate of Cambridge University specialising in political Islam and currently working in Tunis as a freelance journalist.

The demon or the demonized? Deconstructing “salafism” in Tunisia

Media reports emphasizing the “violent” dimension of “salafism” miss an important point: the Tunisian salafist landscape is highly heterogeneous and makes little room for violent avatars. Making this more complex, not everybody claiming to be a “salafist”, or denounced as such, actually is a salaf

By Anne Wolf and Raphael Lefevre

/ 5 Jun 2012

Tunisia: the Islamic politics of trade unionism

While the UGTT often prides itself on having played a prominent role in the unfolding of the mass protests which eventually led to the ouster of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on January 14 2011, the picture is more blurred when it comes to what links the union‘s executive leadership actually entertained

By Anne Wolf and Raphael Lefevre

/ 21 May 2012