About the School of Tunisia

The School of Tunisia is a Substack primarily dedicated to chronicling my seven months of arbitrary detainment in the shape of a travel ban, as well as the intimidation and mistreatment I as a journalist was subjected to at the hands of the Tunisian system.

About Jakob Plaschke

Jakob Plaschke is an early-career freelance journalist, filmmaker and researcher from Denmark. He holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from New York University Abu Dhabi.

After solo-traveling through Tunisia as a student in 2018, the country peaked Jakob’s interest and he came back to spend the summer in 2019 to do fieldwork for his bachelor’s thesis. Tunisia became his second home. He decided to make it his focus for his Master’s thesis, and to eventually move there permanently.

In summer 2023, after saving up money to take the risk, Jakob moved to Tunisia permanently with a plan to pursue his passion for journalism and find out if he could make freelancing work financially. During the next year and a half, he wrote for Meshkal and the New Arab, produced the feature-length documentary film, EN ROUTE TO EUROPE, WE BURN OR DIE (currently awaiting film festival submission decisions), and published his first peer-reviewed academic article for the Journal of North African Studies, titled “Peripheral resistance: geographies of occupation and policing in Tunisia.”

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