REMENA Workshop in Tunis

This workshop by the Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa (REMENA) project at Columbia University organized in partnership with Columbia Global Center in Tunis and CEMAT (Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) took place in Tunis on January 27-28, 2023. The aforesaid endeavor was made possible thanks to the generous funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the President’s Global Innovation Fund at Columbia University.

The REMENA workshop in Tunis focused particularly on research dissemination, including discussion of books and academic journals, public-facing publications and programs, translation, and new media. In addition, the REMENA scholars discussed social science research for non-academic purposes with colleagues from NGOs and consultancies, and devoted a session to working with local partners including research assistants, survey enumerators and translators and interpreters. Finally, the workshop hosted a public panel at the Columbia Global Center in Tunis, so as to be sure REMENA work is itself as widely disseminated as possible.

Participants to the REMENA Tunis workshop were scholars and experts from the University of Sheffield, MIT University, Georgetown University, Sciences Po, Princeton University, George Washington University, the American University in Cairo (AUC), University of Maryland, Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), the American University of Beirut, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mohamed V University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, and Integrated International.