MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed ...
Every year on January 14th, Tunisia is marked by a memory that resonates far beyond its borders, casting a shadow across the ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians voted Sunday in an election expected to grant President Kais Saied a second term, as his most prominent detractors, including one of the candidates challenging him, are ...
Imagine living in a country where a 48-year-old decree, originally written to crush 1970s labor strikes, is the highest law ...
Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...
(TUNIS, Tunisia) — On Sunday, 7 million Tunisians will vote for a new president in the country’s second presidential election since Tunisia’s Arab Spring in 2011. Arab Spring led to Tunisia’s first ...
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From the ashes of the Arab Spring

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...
Tunisians at home and abroad voted in free elections for the first time over the weekend. Ennahda, a moderate Islamic party, is on track to win the largest number of seats, according to early domestic ...
In a sign that conservative Islam could yet take hold in this modern, largely secular country—home to the Arab Spring’s first revolution—a feisty, blunt-talking TV executive was convicted on Thursday ...
Earlier this month, Tunisia’s newly elected parliament cobbled together a coalition government led by a secular party that included its Islamist rivals, who had been democratically ousted from power.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding ...
Supporters of Tunisian President and candidate for re-election Kais Saied meet with residents of a neighbourhood during a campaign tour, in Ariana, Tunisia, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Anis ...