Tunisians are waiting for their new government to impose real change on the ground [Ali Garboussi/Al Jazeera] Tunisia is a country at a crossroads, a year after a popular uprising forced the country’s despised leader from power. Having pulled through a year of remarkable political upheaval, many questions still hang over the country’s future. Strikes [...]
Tags: Ben Ali, Demographics of Tunisia, Gafsa, Islamism, Republic, Tunis, Tunisia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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. Bankers are the Dictators of the West by Robert Fisk Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as I have [...]
Tags: Arab, Arab people, Ben Ali, Enda Kenny, Hosni Mubarak, middle east, Mubarak, Robert Fisk, Royal Bank of Scotland, Wall Street
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Some Tunisians remain sceptical of the post-revolution government that they say does not honor “martyrs” [EPA] Tunisian security forces have used teargas and fired live ammunition into the air to disperse a crowd of more than 3,000 protesters in central-west Tunisia, official and union sources said. Wednesday’s violence in the town of Kasserine took place [...]
Tags: Ben Ali, Islamic Renaissance Movement, Kasserine, middle east, Reuters, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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