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Tunisia: A revolution for dignity

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La Kasba, the place with the Office of the Prime Minister (PM) and the country‘s finance ministry. Protestors from all the southwest provives came here, in the beggining of January 2011, slept in the open for day, established makeshift tents, in the midst of extreme cold temperatures demanding the fall of Ben Ali © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_001		 Free at last artists explore their inspiration connecting alwasy to the human demand for Democacy, in a big exhibition in La Marcha, Tunis © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_002		 The old clock square at the end of Avenue Borguiba today has a new name. ‘‘ 14 of January 2011 square‘‘ is the date when Ben Ali left Tunisia © Maro Kouri
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Youn women with flowers in the renamed clock square at the end of Av. Borguiba. ‘‘January, 14, 2011‘‘ is the day of Ben Ali fall © Maro Kouri
MK_TUNISIA_004		 Young musician in Tunis wears a t-shirt stambed with Karl Marx © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_005		 Internet cafe named ‘‘facebook‘‘ in Tunis center. Through Facebook and other social networks, the young were able to publish videos of the repression and publicize the police murder of unarmed protestors during the Revolution © Maro Kouri
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Women walk closed to a Revolution graffiti of Av. Borguiba that writes about the women’s rights. “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex” writes the cyber –activist and blogger Lina Ben Mhenni to her awarded blog “a Tynisian girl” © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_007		 Children sing with traditional yodles in La Kasba © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_008		 In the taxi © Maro Kouri
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Lesbians dance in “Blancot” beach bar. Women and gays of Tunisia have more rights than in the rest countries of Arab World. During Ben Ali regime, Tunisia was maybe the only Muslim country without an active Islamist opposition group. Members of the Islamist al-Nahda (“The Renaissance,” in Arabic) movement were jailed and exiled in the 1990s. According to Nathan Brown, an Elliott School professor and an expert on the Middle East, the Tunisian regime essentially “squashed out politics.” In other Arab countries, one at least knew who was in the opposition, even if he could not speak to them. This was not the case in Tunisia, where Brown said, “no one knows what‘s on the menu.” Women would not like an extreme Islamist party to win the election of October 2011 © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_010		 The central Avenue Habib Bourguiba of Tunis is the historical political and economic heart of Tunisia. During the revolution was the place of protests. Today, many couples pass by this avenue the day of their wedding. (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent-de-Paul at the background) © Maro Kouri
MK_Tunis_011		 Club Underground, Tunis © Maro Kouri
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Club Underground, Tunis © Maro Kouri
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