Will Tunisian democracy survive and thrive?

Tunisia has emerged from the Arab Spring as a model for what a democracy can look like in the Arab world. Despite facing corruption, terrorism and economic hurdles, the Tunisian people remain faithful to the idea of a democracy. To reinforce this idea, Meherzia Labidi, a member of the Tunisian House of People's Representatives (Tunisia's equivalent of parliament), spoke at a February 2 National Press Club event hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. While Tunisia now has an established constitution and in 2014 held its first free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections since 1956, there is still a long road ahead to becoming the established democracy its citizens dream of, as the challenges they faced in the early postuprising era have not yet gone away.