# Policing and Political Development in Tunisia: Origin and Evolution #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 12, 2022** 02:00PM - 03:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Online (registration info below)** **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** presents **Khansa Ben Tarjem** ![bentarjem.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/bentarjem.jpeg?itok=0hhqV0wH) Ph.D. candidate, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies **Register in advance:** *Please note: the start time of this talk has been changed to 2pm ET.* Khansa Ben Tarjem is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Lausanne. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Harvard University) and the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Brandeis University). Her research focuses on the impingement of political development on the formation of a police apparatus in the context of Tunisia. She is especially interested in the effect of the decolonization process on security services formation and state violence. She holds the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. In December 2015, she co-founded a Tunisian media and think-tank called Barr al Aman Research & Media, where she is now its incumbent president. She has also worked on security services reform and as a journalist for *Le Monde* and Reuters TV. **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu) See also:- [ Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored ](/eventseries/ad-hoc-or-co-sponsored) - [ Government ](/research-field/government) - [ History ](/research-field/history) - [ North Africa ](/research-region/north-africa) - [ 2021-22 ](/academic-year/2021-22) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/1433566/event-feed.ics) Copy link link