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The Harakah Café Culture: Social Life in a North African Coffee Republic
Tunisians place a high value on the traditional Arab coffeehouse, or maqha, where men and women gather for hours to drink Turkish coffee and mint tea, smoke shisha, discuss politics, and engage in harakah—a …
Tunisian Women and the Arab World's Most Progressive Gender Laws
When Tunisia obtained independence from France in 1956, its first president, Habib Bourguiba, promptly implemented the Code of Personal Status, a set of family laws that distinguished the country from …
The Jasmine Revolution: How Tunisia Sparked the Arab Spring
On January 14, 2011, an astonishing event occurred on Habib Bourguiba Boulevard in Tunis: President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled Tunisia for 23 years with a tight grip on surveillance, corruption, and brutality, …
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