Tunisia

“Who lost Tunisia?” This question may well haunt future European leaders. As Hervé Morin, a former French defense minister, recently warned, Europe — and France in particular — cannot afford to wait until the black flag of the Islamic State is hoisted above the presidential palace in Tunis. Sadly, this bleak scenario can no longer be dismissed as an alarmist exaggeration. Only weeks after the Bardo National Museum massacre in March, a jihadist struck again in June, this time at Sousse, a popular

In December of 2010 the people of Tunisia, a country located in northern Africa, revolted against their oppressive ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. What triggered this uprising was an “act of desperation,” the self-immolation of 26 year old Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian merchant (The Star). Bouazizi had been an unlicensed vegetable merchant for seven years before his cart was confiscated by a police officer who then “slapped the scrawny young man, spat in his face, and insulted his dead father,” (Abouzied)

been finding the truth of topics wanted to be hidden to the public, and in this case their power was used to protect Tunisia. The procedure used to spread the truth may not be the most appropriate. It is the truth, and it will always be better to hear the crude reality than some beautiful lie. “The ends justify the means” –Niccolo Machiavelli. In some societies such as Tunisia, wikileaks has been so helpful that their fight has gone from virtual to physical. This is Wikileaks utopia, where a

resources are important and in the case of Tunisia includes the natural resource of a climate well suited to wine growing, plenty of sunshine, fertile soil as well as limited pollution which all aid the industry of grape planting. Political and historical factors through Tunisia’s history such as the romans, French occupation which resulted in over 600 caves being created for wine aging and a recent flourish in the Tunisian wine industry after the 1980’s has left Tunisia with a number of cooperatives and

The protesting could have happened at any time, but the self-immolation of Bouazizi gave Tunisians courage to stand up to the government that had despotically ruled over them for many years. His attempted suicide empowered people throughout Tunisia to make the change rather than waiting for someone else to change the circumstances for them (Benson). The bravery of Bouazizi’s protest gave them the audacity necessary to stand up to Ben Ali and his regime. As the protesting escalated, Ben Ali attempted

to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the dissolution of the ruling National Democratic Party.” Seeing how Egypt’s masses were able to affect political and social change, young pro-democracy advocates in other Arab countries—including Tunisia, Yemen, and Morocco—were encouraged to followed suit. The Tunisian revolution began in December 2010, when fruit vendor Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire to call attention to government and police corruption, as police officers attempted

dilemma that defensive developmentalism emerged in the Middle East. Empires such as the Ottomans, Persia, Tunisia, and Egypt began the process of centralizing their authority in order to assert effective control over their populations. The chief goal of defensive developmentalism for these empires was to assert their autonomy, whether that be autonomy from the Ottomans in the case of Egypt and Tunisia, or from outside imperialists in the Ottoman Empire and Persia. In order to accomplish these goals, defensive

In much of Northern Africa (e.g. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya), Islamic law exists as the foundation of these regional countries. Within many of these predominantly Islamic African nations, political law and Islamic law intertwine. With this being said, all homosexual conduct is criminalized in Northern countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. “Morality laws,” which are religion-based laws, tremendously limit the freedom of expression of LGBT individuals (“Sexual

within the French society. The largest Muslim Arab community in all of Western Europe resides in the heart of France, constituting five to six million people. Around 65% of this community traces its roots to French colonized countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and other parts of North Africa. Malik was coined the nickname “The Arab” and “haloof” (which means pig in Arabic) by other inmates which causes high probability that Malik is in fact to be of North African descent. Therefore, the symbolism

Tunisian wine industry, based on analysis and theories for the current market. It will point out all the advantages and disadvantages of investing in there and will make a recommendation based on many factors. The first part will talk briefly about Tunisia and will point out all the relevant information that can affect a newly started business in there. It will also go in depth by inserting Michel Porter’s national competitive advantage of industries (Diamond Theory) into the discussion of this subject