Epstein Secrets

r, Tunisian police fired tear gas to disperse 200-300 Salafi Muslims who were attempting to set up preaching tents in a residential area in southern Tunis. The incidents have sparked fears in the press that Tunisia may be entering an Algeria-esque "black decade." What has occurred, however, more accur

to dominate the political landscape. It remains to be seen whether the July elections, presuming the current issues are resolved, will change this. Sudan and South Sudan: The signing of a peace agreement by Sudan and South Sudan on March 8th in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, removed some of the obstacles to t

nclude the recent turmoil over prayer space and the wearing of the niqab (veil) by women which occurred on the campus of Manouba University outside Tunis and riots in the capital that forced the government to impose a curfew on a few major cities for several days in mid-June. In addition, reflecting c

tary President General Ibrahim Babangida, is a prominent northerner and cousin to the Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria's highest Muslim spiritual figure. Sudan: A $2.4 billion deficit and 30 percent inflation rate, combined with pressure from the International Monetary Fund to launch an emergency austerity

nsent—makes for peace abroad. Still, don't hold your breath. Yes, democracy is where history is going, but it is a long, perilous journey even from Tunis to Tripoli, let alone all the way to Tehran. Mr. Joffe is senior fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and a fellow at

hat the AKP is openly displaying an ideological bias here. In the meantime no one has forgotten Prime Minister Erdogan's remark in connection with Sudan that "Muslims do not commit genocide." Put another way, there seems to be little difference in the way the U.S. supports Israel blindly and without

no reason other than that he was poor and could do nothing about it. It is November 2010. Within hours protests begin in Sidi Bouzid. They spread to Tunis. 81Then Tripoli. Then Damascus. You watch as the anger, moving on once-invisible technological lines of video and text, demolishes the stability of a

isia, Libya, and Yemen: their names, instead of being symbols of stability, instantly cast as sources of injustice. Other countries - Syria, Algeria, Sudan, and Bahrain tumble for periods into the black hole of civil violence. Some people mistake all this for a democratic revolution. Over time, however,