TUNIS, Tunisia — A middle-aged man with a history of mental illness set himself on fire Saturday in northern Tunisia, two days after a similar c...
Posted 12.23.2011 | World
When Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit seller, set himself on fire toward the end of December 2010, he did so out of economic despair and outra...
AP | By PAUL SCHEMM and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 12.17.2011 | World
TUNIS, Tunisia -- Exactly one year ago, in a hardscrabble town in Tunisia's arid interior, the death knell sounded for the decades-old system of dicta...
Eunice Roque | Posted 11.29.2011 | World
For Egyptians, Tunisians, and anyone who has ever experienced life under a dictatorship, the sight of people lining up to vote is cause for jubilation and the most reassuring sign that the revolution is working.
PA | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK
Countries affected by the Arab Spring are hoping for a leap in tourist numbers. Egypt and Tunisia have launched tourist drives, according to a glob...
Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 12.25.2011 | UK
Tunisia's moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, are set to claim victory in the country's first democratic elections since Arab Spring protests ousted the...
Jane Kinninmont | Posted 12.25.2011 | UK
The dramatic death of Muammar Gaddafi last week took the world's attention away from quieter but still momentous events in Tunisia, where the wave of Arab uprisings started last December.
AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 12.22.2011 | World
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunis was filled with rival rallies throbbing with music as the political parties marked the end of three weeks of campaigning ...
Hedi Jaouad | Posted 12.21.2011 | World
This Sunday, Tunisians will go to the polls for the first transparent, multi-party elections in their 3,000-year history.
Mischa Benoit-Lavelle | Posted 12.19.2011 | World
From the West these demonstrations have been viewed solely through the lens of secularism versus Islam, free speech versus blasphemy; but in fact, the situation is more complex than that, and more political.
Mischa Benoit-Lavelle | Posted 12.13.2011 | World
While Tunisia has avoided the instability that has threatened to push Egypt back into full-scale contestation, it is clear that tensions are rising and that those tensions are centering on the subject of Islam.
AP | Posted 09.20.2011 | World
TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court on Thursday postponed a trial in two new cases targeting the country's ousted president over alleged corruptio...
AP | BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 09.16.2011 | World
TUNIS, Tunisia — Authorities said Monday that a 14-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet fired during a violent protest in the Tunisian town...
Posted 08.20.2011 | World
TUNIS, June 20 (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, in absentia, to 35 years in...
AP | BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 08.14.2011 | World
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia's deposed president will be tried in absentia next week on charges of embezzlement and drug trafficking, an official sa...
Otaviano Canuto | Posted 08.09.2011 | World
The protests that swept through the Middle East and North Africa over the past six months have shown us what people will do to have their voices heard...
TIME | Lisa Abend And Eric Karlsen | Posted 07.23.2011 | World
Two earthquakes have shaken Spanish political life in the past week. First were the massive sit-ins that had tens of thousands of citizens camping out...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.18.2011 | World
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will announce plans Thursday to funnel billions of dollars in economic aid to Egypt and Tunisia as part of a broa...
Kimberly Abbott | Posted 07.09.2011 | World
The first Arab revolution in Tunisia may stand the best chance of success of ushering in the more open, democratic government that protesters demanded. Robert Malley shared his insights into Tunisia's revolution.
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 06.17.2011 | World
ROME — A train carrying Tunisian immigrants from Italy was halted at the French border Sunday in an escalation of an international dispute over ...
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.30.2011 | World
There can be no doubt about the core of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East. As John F. Kennedy said in another context 50 years ago, the torch is being passed to a new generation.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Two centuries ago, news of revolution -- and revolution itself -- reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic at astonishing speed. The social media of the day? Word-of-mouth information, rumor, and opinion.
Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Ahmed Salah, an Egyptian journalist and activist who had survived torture while incarcerated in jail for pushing against the regime, brought his mission to the United States.
Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012 | World
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
Posted 05.25.2011 | World
From strengthening abortion rights to legalizing same-sex marriage, women's movements have been responsible for some of the most extraordinary judicia...
AP | BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 01.07.2012 | World