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In "Opinion"
November 01, 2018
Nature’s fury brings neighbors together
It will soon be eight years since the Tunisian street trader Mohamed Bouazizi, harassed out of business by thuggish police and oppressive regulators, burnt himself to death in protest. That desperate act triggered a popular revolt against the corrupt rule of president Ben Ali who fled within a month. That was the start of the so-called “Arab Spring” which spread, ultimately with disastrous consequences, to Egypt, Libya and Syria.This week in Tunisia, there appears to have been another protest suicide by a 30-year-old unemployed graduate. Mouna Guebla blew herself up in the capital’s Avenue Habib Bourguiba, with what is being described as a homemade bomb. Nine people nearby, most of them policemen, were injured, none of them seriously. This was not an obvious Daesh (the...
November 01, 2018
Troubled Tunisia needs support
October 31, 2018
Riyadh rescues French hostage, waives
$6bn debt. Where is the media recognition?
October 31, 2018
To judge in haste is to err as quickly
October 31, 2018
The perils of phony degrees
October 31, 2018
Honoring our street cleaners
October 31, 2018
Merkel’s long-distance departure
October 31, 2018
Dream of a new Europe in the Middle East
October 30, 2018
Saudi women: Time to speak up!
October 30, 2018
Let Saudis recruit Indonesian workers directly
