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The Spark that Set the Arab World on Fire: Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
On December 17, 2010, in the village of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, the street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest after a policewoman confiscated his wares and slapped him in the face. When cell-phone videos of local protests against Bouazizi’s treatment were circulated on Facebook and broadcast on Al Jazeera, they sparked an uprising that toppled Tunisia’s authoritarian regime and gave birth to the Arab Spring. Today, Tunisia struggles to manage an economic downturn, a worsening security situation, and a flood of Libyan refugees across its southern border as it works to build a constitutional democracy in the Arab World.
Sean Carman is spending two weeks in Tunisia. These are his reports.
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September 14, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch No. 8: Visiting the Bouazizis
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August 25, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch #7: The Bombed-Out Mansions of La Marsa
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August 8, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch #6: Tunisia, Joan Didion, and the Origins of the Arab Spring
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August 3, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 5: Ways of Seeing
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July 28, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 4: Meet the Salafists, Part II
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July 20, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 3: Hedi Ouled Baballah, Dissident Comedian
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July 12, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 2: “The Most Important Thing is to Break the Picture”
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July 6, 2011Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 1: Meet the Salafis