Email: b.benkridis@gmail.com

Bouthaina Ben Kridis is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public International Law, and a member of the Centre for International and European Law and Maghreb-Europe Relations, Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Tunis, University of Carthage, Tunisia. She holds a Master of Laws (Common Law) which focused on the standard of reasonableness in the US Supreme Court decision making from the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Tunis. She works with the Arab Institute for Human Rights as a Reporting Officer under the project of capacity building and advocacy towards improving the protection of refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia.

With in-country experience in legal aid provision in Tunisia, Bouthaina has worked on a number of advocacy issues relating to Syrians, Yemenis and a host of other persons from the MENA region seeking international protection and asylum in Tunisia.  She has also participated in and contributed to legislation drafting of Tunisia’s “Security Sector Legislation: Index 1956 – 2011”, for the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). She also participated in the 2019 Global Academic Network researching on the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees. Bouthaina is experienced in preparation of a variety of research-based and evaluative reports and has published in French, Arabic and English on asylum issues, minority rights and international humanitarian law. In January 2021, she published with the Kaldor Centre, UNSW. She has also written about the current political scene of Tunisia.

Tel: +44 20 76 04 30 27
Skype: george.joffe
Email: email@georgejoffe.com

Professor Joffé is prepared to provide country of origin experts witness statements for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morroco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. He is now retired but is still affiliated to the London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Until 2017, Professor Joffé was an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) in the University of Cambridge, where he also ran the Centre for North African Studies. From 2005 to 2010, he was a research fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. From 1997 to 2000, Professor Joffé was the deputy director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He regularly addresses professional audiences at the NATO Defence College in Rome, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and NOREF in Oslo and the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He has also advised the European Commission (DG Relex), EuropeAid and the new External Action Service.

Email: mkerrou@gmail.com 

Mohamed Kerrou is a professor of Political Science at the University of Tunis El Manar. He is specializing in the development, gender studies, and political change, with an emphasis on Islam and civil society, conflicts, violence and political consensus in Tunisia and the Middle East.  He is also a founding member of the Observatory of Tunisia Political Transition in Tunisia, and a visiting professor at both the University of Aix en Provence in France and the University of Rovira I Virgili in Spain. Kerrou is the author of various articles and books on culture, religion, and politics.