The Munathara Initiative

Benkredda founded the Munathara Initiative's predecessor, Dubai Debates, in 2011, as an independent platform for discussing important issues facing the Arab world.

In early 2012, Benkredda suspended Dubai Debates and created a sister organization, the Munathara Initiative, in Tunis, Tunisia.

[3][4][5] Participants submit a 99-second video or less onto Munathara's online platform expressing their views on current issues, and the public is able to watch all of the contributions and vote on their favorite ones.

featured Ajmi Lourimi, Vice President of the Ennahda Movement, and opposition politician Yassine Brahim, Secretary-General of the Republican Party.

Ghida Al Quda from Jordan and Yassine Ben Smida from Tunisia were chosen by public vote to take part in the live televised debate,[when?]

and were joined by Palestinian commentator Abdel Bari Atwan, then editor-in-chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, and Bashar Haydar, a Lebanese philosophy professor at the American University in Beirut.

Also opposing the motion were Iman Shaker, a veteran Syrian feminist and writer, and Yara Khalil, the other winner of the Munathara Initiative's online debate competition.

contributions from Arab youth throughout the region to upload 99-second videos giving their perspectives on a pressing issue in their communities, using any type of artistic expression, such as speech, music, rap, dance, poetry, or any other form they think best represents their ideas.

The debates, hosted on 7, 8, and 9 September 2019, were broadcast on 11 Tunisian TV channels, as well as satellite networks from Libya, Iraq, and Algeria, and Al Jazeera Live.

[12] The debates followed five years of campaigning by Munathara and were conducted alongside Tunisia's Independent High Electoral Commission (ISIE).