The Clough Center is delighted to welcome two illustrious speakers–Youssef Chahed and Mohammed Hashas–to discuss democracy’s prospects, and its philosophical and practical underpinnings, in the crucial North African nations of Morocco and Tunisia.  A Clough Center Visiting Fellow this year, Youssef Chahed was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 2016 to 2020. As the longest serving head of government after Tunisia’s democratic transition, Dr. Chahed fought terrorism and corruption and worked for racial and gender equality. Mohammed Hashas is a preeminent scholar of Moroccan intellectual history and religion and politics in the Arab-European Islamic world at large. Hashas is author and editor of Contemporary Moroccan Thought (2025), a groundbreaking volume that reflects modern Morocco’s intellectual history. He previously published The Idea of European Islam (2019) and Intercultural Geopoetics (2017), and he is an assistant professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

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