Tired of TV debates? In Arab world, they’re historic, and inspiring.

Two-dozen presidential candidates vying over multiple nights to make their case to the people via television ...

While political debates have become fatiguingly familiar for Americans, in Tunisia they have been something else entirely – historic.

For the first time in the Arab world, leading presidential candidates took to a stage this week to debate policy and defend their track records. The debates in Tunisia’s capital on three consecutive nights ending Sept. 9 were broadcast across the region – shattering taboos over challenging authority and raising the expectations Arab citizens have of their leaders.

Tunisia, the Arab world’s purest democracy and the Arab Spring’s sole lasting success story, is holding its second-ever free presidential elections Sept. 15.

Due to the hybrid nature