Najla Bouden: what next for Tunisia’s first female PM?

Academic's appointment marks historic moment for Arab world but comes amid political and economic crisis, with some fearing she will be Kais Saied's pawn

Sara Medini, political analyst at the Tunisian feminist organisation Aswat Nissa, was in a meeting at work last week when she happened to glance at a news alert on her phone. What she saw left her at first flabbergasted, then delighted.

I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought I had misread it," she said. I told my colleagues: He's appointed a woman! He's appointed a woman!'