Rory McCarthy

Rory McCarthy is the former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian and author of Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq.

Tunisia's security nightmare long predates the Arab Spring

The Tunisian massacre did not come out of a clear blue sky. A dictatorship not as secular as presented and its naïve 'moderate' Islamist successor allowed Salafism to emerge.

By Rory McCarthy

/ 19 Mar 2015

Islamism and secularism in Tunisia

In Tunisia at least, radical Salafism is not just a challenge to secularists: it’s also a challenge to moderate Islamists like Ennahda.

By Rory McCarthy

/ 14 Jan 2012