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The forgotten dictatorship: Tunisia

The re-election on October 24 of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, with the Ceausescu-like score of 94.49%, was scarcely noticed in the Stateside news media. Even the New York Times only posted a brief dispatch from AP on its website. The re-election on October 24 of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, with the Ceausescu-like score of 9 […].

Tunisia’s elections : The long road to democracy

By Daniel Zisenwine Published by TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies & The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies through the generosity of Sari and Israel Roizman, Philadelphia. No. 113 | October 26, 2004. Tunisia’s October 24 presidential and parliamentary elections brought few surprises. As expected, Presid […].

No more room for terrorism, no more room for Ben Ali

Depuis le coup d’Etat orchestré par Ben Ali, le 7 novembre 1987 sur l’ancien président et fondateur de la République, Habib Bourguiba, la Tunisie vit une situation de terreur. Nous sommes près de 10 millions de citoyens, vivant tous les jours l’humiliation, la persécution, la frayeur, la torture mentale pour ceux qui sont à l’extérieur des prisons…