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From the ashes of the Arab Spring

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...
Every year on January 14th, Tunisia is marked by a memory that resonates far beyond its borders, casting a shadow across the ...
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In 2011, in the first and only successful Arab Spring revolution, Tunisians overthrew their dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. That's when I first met journalist Amna (ph).
President Kais Saied’s apparent landslide re-election is the latest sign that authoritarianism has returned to the birthplace of the Arab Spring. By Vivian Yee Vivian Yee recently visited Tunisia to ...
TUNIS, Tunisia -- Tunisia is hoping to break through barriers with its first local election since its 2011 Arab Spring revolution -- a vote potentially producing the first female mayor of the capital, ...
LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Algeria's Islamists, in the political wilderness since their last attempt to win power dissolved into civil war, are now trying again, galvanized by the success of their ...