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Post-Revolution Tunisia Attempts Painful Transition to Democracy Published February 16, 2012 Tunisia is where the Arab Spring began. A year later, the nation finds itself in the midst of a difficult transition to democracy. Special correspondent Jessie Deeter reports.
On the one-year anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, a nation struggles with the transition from autocracy to democracy in the face of growing unemployment and religious conservatism.
May 7, 2012 / Untold Stories
JESSIE DEETER
A year after the revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, what has become of the people, the politics and the economy of Tunisia?
April 11, 2012 / Untold Stories
JESSIE DEETER, ROB PETERSON
Graffiti all over Tunisia paints a picture of the Arab Spring spirit and newly found freedom after the fall of former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Jessie Deeter is a Piedmont, California-based documentary producer, director and journalist. She recently produced “Revenge of the Electric Car,” which had its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in...
"We will illuminate dark places and, with a deep sense of responsibility, interpret these troubled times."
JOSEPH PULITZER III (1913-1993)