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The acute obscurantism that informs Saudi domestic policies also serves as the basis for the kingdom’s foreign policy. Saudi foreign policy is simply reactionary. Saudi Arabia wants an Arab world devoid of any hints of liberalism where absolute tyrants...
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Of all the Arab countries, Tunisia is by far the most progressive on women’s rights. And this is not even a question of relativity versus, say, Saudi bans of...
made popular Apr 25 2011
The former bodyguard of Tunisian ex-dictator Ben Ali has written scandalously on Facebook that the overthrown president and his mafia don of a wife Leila Trabelsi were...
made popular Apr 21 2011
If so, this would be quite the pattern between Egypt’s last pharaoh and Tunisia’s overthrown tyrant. Both men offered reforms as appeasement (naturally...
made popular Apr 13 2011
Reading much of the commentary on the revolutions in the Arab world I have grown irate at the insolent effort by the far-left and fanatical Islamists to claim the...
made popular Mar 15 2011
After the Tunisian revolutionary many Tunisians may have worried that Arab authoritarian states would seek to sabotage the revolution for fear that a successful...
made popular Mar 1 2011
With the recent fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders after civil protests against their continued and bloody rules, many people have wondered if the Zimbabwean...
made popular Feb 24 2011
The American Heartland’s Jasmine moment.
Madison, Wisconsin is starting to resemble the Mideast more than the Midwest, to paraphrase the New York Times.
We...
made popular Feb 22 2011
While Yasmin Revolution in Tunisia inspired population throughout Arab world and wide support to change regime got decisive role in Egypt it was clear that Tunisia was...
made popular Feb 11 2011
Tunisia’s deposed dictator’s final moments before fleeing his country’s “jasmine revolution” were yesterday revealed as being spent...
made popular Feb 11 2011
There has been no more exhilarating time for the Arabs for centuries, literally centuries, than this moment. This is bigger than the end of colonial rule. It is a great...
made popular Feb 2 2011
News network al-Jazeera is having quite a month. Its finest hour came with its coverage of the Tunisian uprising – while the BBC was focusing on the plight of British...
made popular Jan 25 2011
Hundreds of Tunisian protesters have been demonstrating outside the prime minister’s office to demand the removal of members of the ousted president’s...
made popular Jan 25 2011
Watching the images of young Tunisians take to the streets and in great courage and new found freedom chant down their corrupt and authoritarian leader is an image I...
made popular Jan 17 2011
Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — A day after the Tunisian president indicated that he wouldn’t run again, people peacefully took to the streets in tense North African...
made popular Jan 14 2011
In an interview with the Saudi network al-Arabiya during her trip to the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States is not taking sides...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Massive demonstrations ignited due to public anger over aiding youth unemployment and rises in poverty but which have morphed into general opposition against a...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali. A footnote: Ben Ali was a Tunisian diplomat in Poland during the Solidarity Uprising. May he be a first hand witness once more to a...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Tunisia’s government has ordered the closure of all schools and universities until further notice, amid clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over...
made popular Jan 11 2011
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Today’s [Jul 17 2009] tragic crash of an Iranian Caspian Airlines plane 16-minutes after takeoff that killed all 168 people on board must be blamed on the United...
made popular Jan 11 2011
The Tunisian government has said it will listen to protesters, after weeks of unrest over high unemployment and the cost of living left dozens of people dead and raised...
made popular Jan 10 2011
In an otherwise quite nation that usually sits below the radar of Arab politics, Tunisia has been gripped by numerous protests up-and-down the country for several weeks...
made popular Jan 6 2011
The vile and oppressive regime in Tunisia is brutally cracking down on protests, many of them led by students, against high youth unemployment in the country....
made popular Dec 30 2010
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The Tunisian government has sold the people the mantra of “shut up and make money.” Political dissent was silenced by the...
made popular Dec 27 2010
Wikileaks is unveiling what Tunisians have always known: they are being robbed in daylight by an uncouth band of mobster thugs.
The Tunisian president Ben Ali is a...
made popular Dec 13 2010
The corruption of Tunisia’s ruling elite.
I could by now gather all my reports on Tunisian corruption and publish them as a book. Here we go again....
made popular Dec 10 2010
There isn’t a region of the world run by a more miserable and vile bunch than the cursed region for the Arabs. Of course let me distinguish between the Arab...
made popular Dec 10 2010
The interest in the unauthorized release of U.S. diplomatic cables by whistle-blower site Wikileaks has been largely monopolized by the information relating to Gulf...
made popular Dec 3 2010
It’s sad to see that racism is still so prevalent in this day and age around the world. Shamefully, it still exists today in the U.S., but certainly not to the...
made popular Oct 23 2010
The transition from soft dictatorship to Banana Republic. The nation decays once more.
The above description of Tunisia - a nation meta-morphing from a stable and...
made popular Sep 16 2010
How refreshing to see one Arab country that is moving in the right direction as far as women’s rights is concerned. Far too many Middle-Eastern, Arab or...
made popular Sep 14 2010
That Tunisian regime...
Although often neglected by Western governments in their annual human rights reports, Tunisia is one of the most repressive regimes in the Arab...
made popular Sep 3 2010
Tunisia using marketing to distract from the cruelty.
This is a hallmark of the repressive Tunisian regime of Ben Ali (in power since 1986): Using its admittedly...
made popular Aug 27 2010
People in the U.S. often call for boycotts against a celebrity who does something they disagree with or find offensive, like the Dixie Chicks when they insulted former...
made popular Aug 9 2010
An aging tyrant grows more tyrannical.
Documenting abuses in Tunisia is something I do quite frequently. Why? Because it is one of the worst offenders and, yet, due...
made popular Jul 31 2010
The Tunisia you don’t see in those glossy brochures.
The Ben Ali regime is growing more desperate in its repression. Regimes tend to clamp down more harshly...
made popular Jul 20 2010
New Tunisian repression and European silence.
This is the extent of Tunisia’s repressive state: Its redundant and unnecessary repression, but still merciless....
made popular Jul 6 2010
The Tunisian ‘republic’’s founding president Habib Bourguiba was for a while ostracized in the Arab world for advocating Arab acceptance of Israel and...
made popular Jul 6 2010
Tunisia’s oppressive clique of Ben Ali-Trabelsi is quite conscious of the nation’s image in the Western world and it wants to promote a facade of a liberal...
made popular Jun 18 2010
This is the Tunisian government you will not see in the glossy brochures of the tourism office promoting the beaches et al: A state that refuses to tolerate any form,...
made popular Jun 18 2010
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Netherlands’ Dirk Kuyt vies for the ball with Houcine Ragued of Tunisia, center, Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder, right, follows the play during their international friendly soccer match in Rades, Tunisia, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.
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