Post archive for ‘Tunisia’
Hijab makes a return in Tunisia
Something really wonderful happened outside the Tunisian Embassy in London the other day as a crowd of us gathered to continue the demand for justice in the people’s revolution. I was standing next to a woman, and, with tears in her eyes she revealed she had been inside the embassy that morning to get passports [...]
Friendless, Homeless, and Humiliated – Dictators take note
He might still be living in the lap of luxury, but make no mistake Tunisia’s former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family are prisoners. Like birds in a guilded cage, they are languishing in a palace in one of the most exclusive districts of Jeddah but the truth is Ben Ali and his equally [...]
Torture, Tyrants and Tunisia
Long before I became a Muslim, the North African country of Tunisia used to evoke two images in my mind … a sunny holiday destination for drunken chavs* and a temporary home base for Palestinian leader-in-exile, Yassir Arafat. I don’t suppose you could imagine two more different images than soccer-mad, binge-drinking Westerners and the revolutionary PLO [...]