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Tunisia: a year of all dangers | openDemocracy
Tunisia is both the pioneer of the Arab spring and its greatest success so far. But even here the political and economic tests are acute, says Vicken Cheterian. If the Arab awakening of 2010-11 is to produce a true success in 2012 and beyond, it must be in Tunisia.
Release of Unauthenticated Prison-Sex Video Denounced in Defense of Tunisian Interior Minister : Tunisia Live
Interior Minister Ali Laarayedh during the presentation of new ministers to the Constituent Assembly A video was released January 18th, on Youtube and Facebook allegedly depicting the newly appointed Interior Minister – Ali Laarayedh – performing an intimate, possibly sexual, act with a fellow inmate in a prison cell. The video was supposedly filmed while he was a political prisoner detained within the Interior Ministry during the dictatorial reign of Tunisia’s ousted President, Zine Abedine Ben Ali. Samir Dilou, the spokesman of the interim government and a member of Ennahda, denounced the release of the video, and stated that it was a fabrication produced by the former regime.
Revolution Story : Tunisia Live
This day would have otherwise been of no particular significance had it not been for Mohamed Bouazizi. A 26-year old Tunisian fruit vendor, Bouazizi doused himself in paint-thinner and lit himself on fire after the authorities confiscated his fruit stand, preventing him from working. Bouazizi claimed to have been physically assaulted by a government agent (Faida Hamdi), but he was ignored when he tried to bring his case to the Governor of his hometown - Sidi Bouzid. Plagued by intense humiliation and desperation, the young man made the decision to end his life. Two days of continued protests in Sidi Bouzid applied increasing pressure on the government as international media became progressively more involved in covering the unrest. Opposition and labor groups in the region joined the protest movement, exponentially increasing the presence of demonstrators in the street.Al Arabiya inquiry reveals how Tunisia’s Ben Ali escaped to Saudi Arabia
On January 14, 2011, the most critical moments in Tunisia’s modern history and the subsequent facts of the moments were woven behind the scenes and in the corridors of the Tunisian authority, from lowly to lofty positions. This historic date was the spark that drew the red lines on the region’s map, a region that entered a new chapter entitled: The Revolution. That day witnessed by the Tunisian people reintroduced questions about the reasons that forced the former president, Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali, to leave his palace, and then his country, like a fugitive.
Inside the 'Arab Spring' - Features - Al Jazeera English
Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner that lived in exile for many years. He is the Advocacy Director at Global Voices and the co-founder of nawaat.org . Nawaat is a popular Tunisian blog and online news aggregator that played a key role in pushing events forward, providing relevant information and content to the journalists that were covering the Tunisian uprisings. The organisation co-hosted a concert in Tunis on July 2, at the end of the Creative Commons (CC) Arab regional meeting , which sought to celebrate "openness, creativity, innovation and the culture of sharing". Al Jazeera caught up with the activist to get a deeper insight into the role that Nawaat played in the uprisings in Tunisia that went on to become the 'Arab Spring'.
A Revolution of Equals | Online Only | Granta Magazine
The women's demonstration. I n the days immediately following the toppling of President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on 14 January, Tunis was a city exhilarated by the success of the revolution. Energized protestors kept up pressure on the newly formed interim government. A sit-in outside government offices in the Kasbah led to the ousting of the few remaining politicians associated with the old regime. Trade unions, now emboldened, organized strikes to demand better salaries and working conditions.
FT Magazine - Tunisia: after the revolution
Avenue Habib Bourguiba I t’s a new world on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis. This is the Champs-Élysées of the city, where people lounge in sidewalk cafés and tourists usually stroll all the way down to the entrance of the souks in the old town. I have visited Tunisia many times over more than a decade, yet never paid much attention to the tree-lined avenue, named after the founder of the modern Tunisian state. But back in the country three months after the first Arab revolution , which convulsed Tunisia and pushed aside its longtime dictator, I could feel the air of freedom.Tunisia | tourism | economy | Hammamet | Tunis
European tourists visit handicraft shops in a medina souk on February 15, 2011 in Tunis. Despite political instability and state warnings following the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a few tourists still visit Tunisia. ( FETHI BELAID / AFP/Getty Images ) HAMMAMET, Tunisia — A few months ago this former Mediterranean fisherman's village was a bustling, popular destination for European tourists.
This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011 . In the two months that have followed the ousting of former Tunisian President Ben Ali by revolutionary protests , four United States (US) officials have visited Tunisia: Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, William Burns, the US under-secretary of state for political affairs, and Senators Joseph Lieberman and John McCaine. On the night of Wednesday 15 March, 2011, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in capital Tunis after a trip to Egypt. In Egypt, the 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition refused an invitation to meet with Clinton,”due to her negative stance towards the revolution during its inception and the approach of the US Administration towards the Middle East Region,” as the Coalition states . The reaction to the visit of Hilary Clinton in Tunisia did not differ much from Egypt.
Tunisia: Hillary Clinton’s Unwelcome Visit · Global Voices
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Political revolutions are complex things; this should go without saying. But many of the commentators on the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt seem to have ignored this fact in favor of social-media triumphalism, a recent variant of a more general strain of cyber-utopianism that dates back to the early days of the web . I take it as given that this notion is an almost entirely wrongheaded consequence of the need to make succinct statements (for tweet and headline purposes) about complicated social phenomena.
Tunisia Protests: The Facebook Revolution - Newsweek
For more than a month, protests have swept across Tunisia. But “Àli,” a key organizer, has hardly left his home in a midsize town far away from the capital. In fact, he seldom leaves his desk.A reader: Tunisia, Twitter, revolutions and the role of the Internet | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms
The social web can be a powerful tool for communication, sharing and remembrance. The Internet would be a neutral tool that could be used for organizing, enlightenment and commerce, or repression, propaganda and crime. Which will it be? In 2011, the safest bet is both. Today, that truth was self-evident in the United States, as a nation remembered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. online .from the being-a-rolemodel dept This weekend we came across a post by Karin Kosina which highlighted the problem in saying that sometimes it's okay to 'filter' (censor) certain websites. "Tunisian state secretary Sami Zaoui just announced ( mirror ) that they will keep blocking websites that are "against decency, contain violent elements or incite to hate" . When criticised that this is inacceptable in a democracy, he responded ( mirror ): "Wrong! Even the countries that are most evolved when it comes to freedom block terrorist sites" ."
Tunisian State Secretary Says Censorship Is Fine Because The West Does It Too | Techdirt
Since the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, speculating about whether the fervor will spread and to which countries has become something of a world-watcher’s parlor game. So I’ve decided to give over much of my space this week to providing more data for that discussion. As The New York Times headline declared earlier this week, “Jobs and Age Reign As Factors in Mideast Uprisings.” And the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy has used levels of democracy to identify countries at risk around the world.
The Kindling of Change - NYTimes.com
In early December, 1989, rioting broke out in the western Romanian city of Timosoara. Within weeks, the Ceaucescu dictatorship had fallen, the self-styled ‘Genius of the Carpathians’ and his wife, Elena, having been shot by an impromptu firing squad after a trial that was little more than a kangaroo court that condemned them for one of the things they were not guilty of: genocide. Before she was killed, Mme.