Fouad mebazaa biography of williams
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Tunisia: A dictator falls, but what comes next?
AFTER fyra weeks of mass demonstrations in nearly every corner of Tunisia, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee the country on January 14. With protesters surrounding the Ministry of Interior in Tunis that Friday, chanting “Ben Ali, thank you, but that’s enough!” twenty-three years of corrupt and repressive rule began to unravel. Ben Ali’s avfärd marked the downfall of a dem facto dictatorship in Tunisia, where motstånd to the ruling party, the Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD), had been systematically repressed and silenced.
The revolution in Tunisia immediately gave confidence to emerging protest movements in Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, and most importantly, Egypt. As Egyptian socialist and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy pointed out, grievances against the regime in Egypt already abounded, and local struggles and labor strikes had begun to utmaning President Hosni Mubarak in recent years. But the succes
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisian Arabic: Zīn il-ʿĀbdīn bin ʿAlī, Standard Arabic: زَيْن الْعَابِدِين بْن عَلِيّ, romanized: Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn bin ʿAliyy; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who served as the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.
Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987. He assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent.[2] Ben Ali led an authoritarian regime.[3] He was reelected in several non-democratic elections where he won with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote, his final re-election coming on 25 October 2009.[4][3] Ben Ali was the penultimate surviving le
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Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism
Gana, Nouri. "Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism". The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, pp. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748691050-003
Gana, N. (2013). Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism. In The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects (pp. 1-32). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748691050-003
Gana, N. 2013. Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism. The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748691050-003
Gana, Nouri. "Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism" In The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects, 1-32. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748691050-003
Gana N. Introduction: Collaborative Revolu