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The Tunis Center Facilitates Columbia SIPA Capstone Collaboration with Kumulus Water
As part of Columbia SIPA 2025-2026 Capstone Workshops in Sustainable Development Practice, a team of graduate students from Columbia University' School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has been working with Kumulus Water, a French-Tunisian startup developing atmospheric water generation technology, on a project focused on supply chain optimization.
Evaluating Market Access Subsidies: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia with Dr. Nadia Ali (GSAS)
Columbia Global Center Tunis, in partnership with Paris Dauphine University | Tunis, hosted a conference by Dr. Nadia Ali, PhD in Economics from Columbia University (GSAS '26).
The Study Tour: Carthage and Africa Proconsularis in the Field (2026)
In January 2026, senior students and faculty from Barnard and Columbia—after taking the seminar Carthage and Africa Proconsularis in Fall 2025- came to Tunisia for an intensive, site-based study tour. The trip was designed as an extension of the course itself: students didn’t simply visit ruins; they returned to places they had already inhabited intellectually through texts, scholarship, and archaeological evidence.
