Tunisian American Young Professionals

TAYP members speak out

  • Obama’s second term challenges

    Posted by radhouane

    Newly reelected with a confortable margin, Barack Obama will soon be confronting some dunting domestic and foreign policy challenges with a big portion of his population getting increasingly impatient. The voters who gave him four more years in office, also elected a divided congress with republicans keeping the house majority

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  • Social Funding

    Posted by admin

    There is an obvious need among Tunisian expatriates to invest back to their home country in a structured and sustainable way, particularly after January 14th. Many of them do not know how to do it in an effective way. They are tired of giving away money to small local foundations

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  • How to enable a diaspora fund

    Posted by admin

    A few months ago, Hatem Mahbouli, an eminent TAYP member introduced the idea of launching a Diaspora fund based on crowd funding through the web. The premises have been quite simple: if thousands of Tunisians abroad become micro-investors of amounts as low as $500 each, then we can easily raise

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Recent Posts

  • Business & Finance Tunisia 2013: The Country’s Premier Investment Event

    Posted by radhouane

        Starts:  May 26, 2013 Ends:  May 28, 2013 Place:  Ramada Plaza Hotel, Gammarth, Tunisia Join BLJ Worldwide, along with the President and Prime Minister of Tunisia, the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, CNBC Arabia, CONECT, a broad community of international and regional business executives,

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  • Tunisian Exchange Program : The Thomas Jefferson Scholarship

    Posted by radhouane

    The Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Program’s Tunisia Undergraduate Scholarship Program (Tunisia UGRAD) is open to current 1st and 2nd year university students in Tunisia. Participants study for one academic year at U.S. university or 4-year college. More information and applications are due May 13th and are available for download here: http://www.irex.org/application/tunisia-ugrad-application-information

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  • Only 1.5 percent of Tunisian exports were sent to the US in 2012

    Posted by radhouane

    Tunisian exports remain heavily concentrated in terms of market destination, with the European market representing three quarters of the market share. The next largest export market is Libya with 4.4% of exports. Tunisia is missing out other opportunities in other emerging and dynamic markets, especially in current times when the

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