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This article looks at the role of women during and after the popular uprising in Tunisia starting in 2010. In order to understand the changing dynamics of women’s rights and liberties in Tunisia, the author focuses on the gender equality policies in the country with specific references to the political context. It concludes that after the first two years after the revolution, Tunisia appears to be suffering from “asthma” of democracy, freedoms, and liberties, showing the symptoms of losing breath and pressure on its chest, along with the allergies of the newly formed reforms and legislations. The author suggests that the completion of the draft constitution and the holding of general elections in the summer of 2013, could help disperse these symptoms of asthma before they become chronic.