A Tunisian vendor poses as he sells white truffles at a market in the town of Ben Guerdane, 40km west of the Libyan border, in February 2016.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the team at the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme, particularly Dr Lina Khatib, Adel Hamaizia and Nicole El Khawaja for their support during the NAD workshops and constructive comments and feedback on this research paper. The authors would also like to thank David Butter and the anonymous peer reviewers for their reviews of earlier versions of the paper, and Michael Tsang for his editing. Last but not least, the authors and the team at Chatham House are grateful to all those who participated in the NAD workshops and contributed their time and valuable ideas to the project. Any remaining errors are the responsibility of the authors. The Chatham House MENA Programme is grateful to the UK government for funding the North Africa Dialogues project.