In response to the UK’s threat to raid the embassy, Nawaat, Tunisian leading collective blog tweeted: ‘If the UK storm Ecuador embassy we will storm UK embassy in #Tunisia for violating Vienna convention @wikileaks #assange #tnassenge’
Ramadan this year has been sugar-coated, a cover for various bills that are supposed to make the lives of Tunisians better, but which are not doing so.
The marathon to gender equality in the Olympic Games has been achieved.
Last week, Tunisia’s minister of finance, Houcien Dimassi, abruptly resigned from his post refusing to approve a bill that would cost the national budget more than a billion dollars just to curry favour with the voters
There was an attempt to set fire to the government building in Sidi Bouzid. They are furious that their town has remained impoverished and their youth have remained unemployed and the promises of development projects have remained ink on paper.
As a Tunisian student who is a fervent admirer of the American and French revolutions, the Tunisian revolution does not meet my standards.
Current disharmony among the Republic’s leaders is fuelling suspicion and does not help to stabilize the overall situation.
In fact, Arab Muslim identity has never been key to Tunisian politics or foregrounded by any government.
University dean faces up to three years in prison for allegedly assaulting a veiled student.
The aspirations of the Jordanian people do not differ much from those of the Tunisians and Libyans and all those individuals who decided at some point to break down the wall of fear.
Some people think they’re entitled to more money just because Ben Ali is gone, when ironically, the country has only got poorer since then, and therefore it just can’t happen.
