Hundreds of hard-line Islamists, known as Salafis, terrorized the northwestern town of Jendouba, attacking a police station and stores selling alcohol, said the official news agency.

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Muslim Salafis Attack Police in Jendouba, Tunisia

The owner of a Tunisian TV station is fined for showing a controversial and award-winning animated film, Persepolis.

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Tunisia TV boss fined over film

Outside the courthouse, 16 armed police officers screen all comers, including hundreds of lawyers in flowing black robes. Beyond a wall of barbed wire, a throng of bearded young men angrily shout slogans. The scene sends a clear message: Could be trouble here. Read full article > >

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Tunisian court case exposes rift over free speech in new democracy

A blasphemy trial in Tunis symbolizes an emotional struggle, with implications for the Arab world, playing out with the rise of Islamists after the end of a secular dictatorship.

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The New Islamists: Tunisia Navigates a Democratic Path Tinged With Religion

Before the Green Revolution in Iran, before Tunisia and Tahrir Square, there was the Saffron Revolution in Burma: a peaceful uprising for democracy, led by Buddhist monks, that was brutally suppressed by the ruling generals . Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Prisoner release keeps Burma’s reforms on track

Tunisians unveil a statue in honour of the man whose act of self-immolation a year ago unleashed the Arab Spring.

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Tunisia unveils Bouazizi statue

IT WAS a year ago Saturday that fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself aflame in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, improbably providing the spark for what has become a regional revolution. The Arab Spring acquired its name in part because early commentators likened it to the upheavals that brought an end to dictatorship in other parts of the world — including the former Soviet bloc, East Asia and Latin America. It seemed logical that Middle Eastern states would, at last, follow the same path that led in other places from dictatorship and economic stagnation to free elections, free markets and integration into a global economy. Read full article > >

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Keeping the Arab Spring alive

Tunisia’s Esperance win the African Champions League with a 1-0 victory over Wydad Casablanca.

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Esperance take African club crown

The office of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly, had recently published an issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad in recognition of the Islamist party that won the Tunisian elections.

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Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris Is Firebombed

The Tunisian government is seeking to question Suha Arafat in an investigation into corruption by government officials, including the country’s ousted president.

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Tunisia Seeks to Question Suha Arafat in Corruption Inquiry

Protesters angered by a local result in Tunisia’s first free election burned a central government building on Friday in the impoverished town of Sidi Bouzid.

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Tempers Flare After Some Tunisian Votes Are Nullified

The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia’s first free election appealed for calm in the town where the “Arab Spring” began, accusing forces linked to the ousted president of fanning violence there.

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Fresh Post-Vote Clashes in Cradle of Tunisia’s Revolt

TUNIS — The strong showing by a moderate Islamist party in Tunisia’s elections this week has made this tiny coastal nation a test case for whether Islamist ideology and democracy can coexist in a region long dominated by Western-backed autocrats who have used religion as a foil, not a governing philosophy. Read full article > >

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In Tunisia, Islamists flourish as democracy is ushered in

TUNIS — A once brutally repressed moderate Islamist group was poised to win the most seats in an elected assembly tasked with writing the Tunisian constitution and appointing a new interim government. As Tunisian authorities continued to count ballots in the nation’s first truly free vote , early results, leaked to the Tunisian radio station Mosaique, showed that Ennahdha, Renaissance in English, was leading the polls among many constituencies. Read full article > >

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Moderate Islamists lead in early counting of Tunisian votes

Polls open in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.

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Landmark Tunisia vote under way