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ountry is going through a transitional period after the revolution. Compare our situation to other countries in a similar situation — Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt and other Arab Spring countries. Tunisia is obviously faring much better. It is the last candle still shining in the Arab Spring despite all
a fruit vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire , sparking a revolt that spread across the Arab world. Beginning with Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, dictators fell from power, and it seemed that a democratic revolution might transform the region. Yet now, on the third anniversary of EFTA0070641
o smaller units that would then be more reliant on foreign support or protection. Sudan has already split into northern and southern states, while Yemen, Iraq and possibly a few others are similarly susceptible to subdivision into smaller statelets. This raises difficult issues about the inviolabili
: sons who had not risen through the military or other bureaucracies, and thus had no legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Syria's Bashar al- Assad, quite another. Certainly, the Arab Spring has proved much: that there is no otherness to Arab c
Egyptian military, and by force of arms rather than moral suasion, could reinvigorate activists in violent struggles elsewhere, especially Syria and Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Yemen, with its weak state, splintered national army, and strong tribal affiliations, may be the region's closest a
urselves," said Ahmed Ounaies, a former Tunisian ambassador who served briefly as minister of foreign affairs after the ouster of President Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali. 'We have to listen to our values, our aspirations, our present, against all the past that we have lived. It is a hard test, and success is not assu
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Hosni Mubarak
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Mahmoud Abbas
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the Persian Gulf
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Saleh
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Muammar el-Qaddafi
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