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Recent changes in North Africa and the Middle East entailed far reaching political, economic and social changes. The democratic transition in the respective countries was thereby characterized by concurrent constitutional transition. New Arab constitutions aimed at introducing democratic systems, which were better able to adapt to different political, social and economic contexts.

Three democratic and constitutional transitional experiences were analyzed in a comparative study. The Tunisian Constitution, adopted on January 27 2014, the Egyptian constitution accepted on January 14 2014 as well as the Moroccan Constitution revised on 1 July 2011 were analyzed and compared.

The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Tunis office and the Regional Rule of Law office Beirut), together with the research group for International Law, International Jurisdiction and Comparative Constitutional Law, as well as the members of the Commission on International Law of the African Union, organized an international Conference on “The New Constitutions in the Arab World: Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt” on February 28 - March 1st at the Hotel Africa in Tunis. High ranking international experts analyzed and discussed the characteristics of these constitutions together with politicians as well as civil society and media representatives.