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Hatem Chakroun is a Research at the Observatoire Tunisien de la Transition
Démocratique (Tunisian Monitor of Democratic Transition, or OTTD). His current research interests include the parliementary elite, Tunisian Human Rights actions, the OpenGov Partnership (OGP) within the localities, and religion in democratic transitions.
Salafism Meets Populism: The Al-Karama Coalition and the Malleability of Political Salafism in Tunisia
The nascent research on political Salafism suggests that it can often be much more pragmatic, flexible, and malleable than both the quietist and the jihadist Salafist strand and can sometimes show a certain openness to other political actors and ideologies. The case of the Tunisian al-Karama Coalition (Dignity Coalition) indicates that the new (tactical) openness of some politicized Salafists can also extend to populism. In this article, the authors locate the rise of al-Karama within the context of Tunisia’s successful but still incomplete and “bumpy democratic transition.”
