Oussama Romdhani

Oussama Romdhani

Oussama Romdhani is a former Tunisian minister of Communication, previously in charge of his country's international image. He served as a Tunisian diplomat to the United States, from 1981 to 1995. A recipient of the U.S. Foreign Service Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Award, he was also a Washington DC press correspondent and Fulbright Research Scholar at Georgetown University. Romdhani is currently an international media analyst. Official blog page: www.oussama-romdhani.com

Foreign competition does not serve Libya’s interests

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s meeting on May 10 at the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin drew attention once more to the Libyan strongman’s ever-growing ties to Moscow.For all the latest......

The ‘Arab Spring’ belongs to another era

The “Arab Spring” truly belongs to another era. But a more cautious approach alone is not enough by itself to keep ghosts of trouble forever at bay.To avoid renewed unrest, many of the regimes of......

Things do not bode well in the Maghreb

In the Maghreb, the recent global trade crisis triggered by US President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught has further amplified the state of disarray among countries of Arab North Africa.Since the......

Algeria and Sudan can learn from the political transitions of 2011

As unrest sweeps away long-tenured rulers in Algeria and Sudan, there are lessons the new political generations there can draw from other transitions in the region since 2011. The first lesson is that......

My five weeks in a wheelchair

A nasty ankle fracture put me in a wheel¬chair for more than five weeks, turning the shortest trips and simplest errands into enormous tasks. The experi¬ence did, however, offer me a different......

Libya sparks Tunisia’s summer of concern

The village of Metouia, in the Tunisian southeast, in an unlikely late summer destination...

Radical change in Algeria isn’t so attractive anymore

Algeria is a long way from that kind of radical mystique: stability and incremental reform are much more appealing than revolution...

Libya threatens to spin out of control

Three years after the fall of the Qaddafi regime, Libya does not have a process to resolve political, economic, regional and tribal conflicts peacefully...