Tunisia Media Partnership

Audience members from across Tunisia, together with civil society activists, experts, and government officials, discuss the successes and challenges they’ve faced since the revolution.

The Tunisia Media Partnership (TMP) is a collaborative project with Tunisian media that provides informative and engaging programming for the Tunisian people at a crucial moment in their country’s democratic transition.

In October 2011, AAM opened the TMP office in the capital city of Tunis. TMP partners with leading Tunisian radio and television stations to produce a series of nine town halls on key areas of Tunisia’s democratic transition including governance, political participation, freedom of expression, and the economy.

The innovative format of these interactive town hall programs provides a forum to incorporate a wide range of Tunisian voices and concerns, especially to help give voice to the country’s rural interior by connecting them with coastal regions for direct discussion on Tunisia’s future.

The initiative also builds the capacity of independent Tunisian media and provides Tunisian journalists with a unique opportunity to increase their reporting skills and professionalism through hands-on production.

This project is supported by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). More information about MEPI can be found at: www.mepi.state.gov.

In our first town hall, TMP collaborated with Mosaique FM to explore the concerns and expectations of Tunisian youth leading up to their first democratic elections.

TMP’s second town hall, in partnership with Shems FM, broadcast live from three locations, including the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, Sidi Bouzid, to discuss personal freedoms in an emerging democracy. Read more.

TMP partners with Tunisia’s national television station, Alwataniya, for its first televised town hall on January 7th to discuss the impact of economic development across the country. Read more.

TMP collaborates with Hannibal TV, one of Tunisia’s leading independent television stations bringing together audience members from across Tunisia who came prepared to directly challenge Tunisian government officials with accounts of corruption. Read more.

TMP broadcast its fifth town hall, in partnership with Shems FM, from the coastal city of Gabes and the rural city of Kairouan. This event examined issues on the effectiveness of existing political parties and the lack of political engagement among Tunisia's women and youth. Read more.

TMP partnered again with Hannibal TV to host a town hall discussion focused on the role of civil society in Tunisia’s democratic transition. Read more.

TMP and Mosaique FM hosted a town hall discussion on Tunisia’s youth unemployment crisis. Read more.