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When The Revolution Came To Town is a new graphic novel by Isra Moussaoui and Beth Bacon, and drawn by Noha Habaieb. Which tells the story of an 11-year-old girl's experience of the first days of the ...

The Jasmin Revolution took place in Tunisia in 2010. In 2024, President Kais Saied was re-elected by a large majority. In 2019, he was still seen as a man of integrity and loyal to the constitution.

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In 2011, in the first and only successful Arab Spring revolution, Tunisians overthrew their dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. That's when I first met journalist Amna (ph).

During the past three years, the Middle East has changed faster than anyone could have ever anticipated. When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, in December 2010, he couldn’t have known ...

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The past few months have brought despair to millions of Arabs as they’ve watched the rapid and seemingly definitive restoration of an old, dictatorial order throughout a region that was not long ago ...

As Ben Ali’s regime first teetered and then toppled, women were on the front lines of the struggle as protesters, journalists, Tweeter, bloggers, and workers. Images of women wrapped in the Tunisian ...