Tunisian Déjà-Vu
Mohamed Brahmi’s coffin covered with a Tunisian flag. GETTY IMAGES The same setting, same strategy, same weapon, same political inclination of the victim, and same tears from a now fatherless child:...
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Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou and Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice Samir Dilou attend a constituent assembly meeting on September 19,...
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Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party’s leader Rachid Ghannouchi (R) signs documents during a meeting as part of the dialogue between Tunisia’s ruling Islamists and the opposition on October 5, 2013....
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Tunisian people sit on stairs outside the theater on Habib Bourguiba Avenue on November 6, 2013, in Tunis. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)A specter is haunting Tunisia: the specter of Zine El-Abidine...
View ArticleTunisia’s not Talking
A Tunisian man pays for his coffee with Tunisian dinar bills bearing slogans calling for the Ennahda party to step down from power. (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images) Tunisia’s political scene has been...
View ArticleThe Muslim Brotherhood versus Ennahda
Mohammed Badie (far left), leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement seen with Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party Rachid Ghannouchi (third from right) at a major conference of Islamists in...
View ArticleDemocracy in the Making
Tunisia’s new Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa addresses the handover ceremony in Tunis on January 29, 2014 after the North African country’s parliament approved a technocratic caretaker government tasked...
View ArticleTunisia’s Example to Libya
Young Libyans release lanterns into the sky as they celebrate the third anniversary of the popular revolt that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi on February 17, 2014, in the eastern city of Benghazi. (ABDULLAH...
View ArticleA Deep State of Mind
Grafitti marks the occasion when Tunisians successfully ousted their president Zine El Abidin Ben Ali in January 2011. CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES Following the assassination of Chokri Belaid,...
View ArticleTunisia’s Close Call
Ennahdha Party supporters protest against Tunisia’s former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi’s launch of his ‘call of Tunisia’ in Tunis on June 16, 2012.For those who lived in Tunisia during its...
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