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Topic: Tunisia

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February 8, 2013
3:54 pm

Cars burn next to the cemetery where thousands of Tunisians are gathered at el Jallez cemetery to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, Friday Feb. 8 (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Clashes break out at Tunisian politician’s funeral

Police fire tear gas at youths outside cemetery; tens of thousands chant anti-government slogans

February 7, 2013
8:46 am

Protesters gather with a Tunisian flag around an ambulance carrying the body of opposition leader Chokri Belaid in Tunis, Wednesday, Feb. 6 (photo credit: AP/Amine Landoulsi)

Tunisia to shake up government after assassination

Muslim prime minister says he will work toward holding new elections in the wake of slaying of secularist opposition leader

By Paul Schemm

February 6, 2013
9:16 pm

The late Col. Muammar Gaddafi (photo credit: Jesse B. Awalt/Wikimedia Commons)

Deposing despots doesn’t eliminate corruption, group says

Secretive security agencies said to prevent transparency in post-revolutionary Middle East states

February 6, 2013
4:45 pm

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he attends the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Ahmadinejad’s awkward Cairo moment

Embarrassing press conference exposes Sunni-Shiite rift; Tunisian political assassination sparks fear of renewed turmoil

By Elhanan Miller

February 6, 2013
11:29 am

Chokri Belaid (photo credit: CC-BY, Rais67, Wikimedia commons)

Tunisian opposition leader shot dead

Unified Democratic Nationalist Party head Chokri Belaid was critical of Tunisia’s leadership; hundreds protesting in Tunis

January 2, 2013
3:47 pm

Tunisian state secretary for immigration Houcine El Jaziri (photo credit: screen capture/Youtube)

Merry Christmas, ya Jews!

Tunisia’s state secretary for immigration gets his holidays confused

December 29, 2012
6:47 am

Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem (photo credit: Foreign Ministry of Tunisia)

Tunisia’s Islamist FM caught in affair and money embezzlement scandal

From the web Al Arabiya: Rafik Abdessalem dismisses allegations that he spent several nights at a hotel in Tunis with a woman and paid for his stay from the government’s coffers

December 11, 2012
10:23 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton cancels Mideast trip due to stomach virus

William Burns to take secretary’s place on visits to Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates

December 5, 2012
4:33 am

Muslim women gather for Ramadan prayers. (illustrative photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Arab Spring hasn’t improved women’s rights, activists say

From the web Two years after the first uprising erupted, women have seen precious few gains — while the rise of Islamist governments is fueling concern about growing conservatism, Reuters reports

December 3, 2012
6:30 am

Protesters clash with riot police in Siliana, Tunisia, on Saturday (photo credit: AP/Amine Landoulsi)

Protests in Tunisian town show anger at Islamist government

From the web Police wound hundreds, blind 17, reports Reuters

November 17, 2012
1:21 pm

Tunisian minister comes to Gaza, tells Israel to halt ‘aggression’

From the web Reuters: Rafik Abdessalem is second high-profile visitor to the Strip, after Egyptian PM made the trip Friday

November 14, 2012
2:02 am

Palestinians youths sit in front of computers at the local internet cafe in the Shoafat refugee camp (photo credit: Michal Fattal /Flash90)

Porn sites feature on Islamic countries’ most-visited online rankings

From the web Al-Arabiya: Five adult sites in Egypt’s top-100, according to web-tracking service

November 5, 2012
11:17 am

Khalil Al-Wazir (photo credit: YouTube image grab)

Tunisian party sues Israel over Abu Jihad assassination

Wafa movement seeks justice from a Tunis court following Israel’s admission to the 1988 killing