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51 relations: Abdelhakim Belhaj, Agence France-Presse, Al Akhbar (Egypt), Al-Ahram, Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia), Arab Spring, Caretaker government, Democratic Patriots' Unified Party, El Kef, El Menzah, Ennahda Movement, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, François Hollande, Gafsa, General strike, Guido Westerwelle, Hamadi Jebali, Israel, Jellaz Cemetery, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Mezzouna, Ministry of the Interior (Tunisia), Mohamed Brahmi, Moncef Marzouki, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Nahed Hattar, National Salvation Front (Egypt), Nidaa Tounes, Pan-Arabism, Politics of Tunisia, Popular Front (Tunisia), President of Tunisia, Rached Ghannouchi, Republican Party (Tunisia), Saddam Hussein, Salafi movement, Samir Dilou, Saudi Arabia, Sidi Bouzid, Tear gas, Technocracy, Trial of Saddam Hussein, Tunis, Tunis Afrique Presse, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia, Tunisian Revolution, United States Department of State, Victoria Nuland, Ziad Lakhdhar, ..., Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Expand index (1 more) »
Abdelhakim Belhaj
Abdelhakim Belhaj (or Belhadj; عبد الحكيم بالحاج, nom de guerre: Abu Abdallah Assadaq) (born 1 May 1966) is a Libyan politician and military leader.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Al Akhbar (Egypt)
Al Akhbar (الأخبار; The News in English) is an Arabic daily newspaper based in Egypt.
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Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram (الأهرام; The Pyramids), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828).
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Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia ("Supporters of Islamic Law in Tunisia") is a radical Islamist group that operates in Tunisia.
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (الربيع العربي ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (الثورات العربية aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.
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Caretaker government
A caretaker government is a government that rules on a temporary basis, due to the loss of election or a pending transition of power.
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Democratic Patriots' Unified Party
The Democratic Patriots' Unified Party (حزب الوطنيين الديمقراطيين الموحد), formerly the Democratic Patriots' Movement, is a leftist political party in Tunisia.
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El Kef
Kef Ouest --> El Kef (الكاف), also known as Le Kef, is a city in northwestern Tunisia.
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El Menzah
El Menzah (المنزه), is the name given to a group of suburbs located at the north of the agglomeration of Tunis, capital of Tunisia.
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Ennahda Movement
The Ennahdha Party (حزب حركة النهضة; Mouvement Ennahdha), also known as Renaissance Party or simply Ennahdha, is a Muslim democratic political party in Tunisia.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017.
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Gafsa
Gafsa (ڨفصة), originally called Capsa in Latin, is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia.
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General strike
A general strike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates.
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Guido Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle (27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and as Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions.
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Hamadi Jebali
Hamadi Jebali (حمادي الجبالي,; born 12 January 1949) is a Tunisian engineer, Islamist politician and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Jellaz Cemetery
Jellaz Cemetery (also known as al-Jallaz) is a large hillside Muslim cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, established in the thirteenth century.
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Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), also known as Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya (الجماعة الإسلامية المقاتلة بليبيا), was an armed Islamist group.
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Mezzouna
Mezzouna (Arabic: المزونة) is a town and commune in the Sidi Bou Zid Governorate, Tunisia.
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Ministry of the Interior (Tunisia)
The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior is a government ministry of Tunisia, responsible mainly for internal affairs.
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Mohamed Brahmi
Mohamed Brahmi (محمد براهمي; 15 May 1955 – 25 July 2013) was a Tunisian politician.
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Moncef Marzouki
Mohamed Moncef Marzouki (محمد المنصف المرزوقي; Muhammad al-Munṣif al-Marzūqī, born 7 July 1945) is a Tunisian politician who was President of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014.
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Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood (جماعة الاخوان المسلمين gammāʿat /al-ikhwan/el-ekhwan al-muslimīn) – a Sunni Islamist religious, political, and social movement – is, or was, considered the largest, best-organized political force,Eric Trager, "", Foreign Affairs, September October 2011, p. 114–222.
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Nahed Hattar
Nahed Hattar (ناهض حتر Nāhiḍ Ḥattar; 1960 – 25 September 2016) was a Jordanian writer and political activist.
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National Salvation Front (Egypt)
The National Salvation Front (also known as the National Front for Salvation of the Revolution or the National Rescue Front, جبهة الإنقاذ الوطني) is an alliance of Egyptian political parties, formed to defeat Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's 22 November 2012 constitutional declaration.
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Nidaa Tounes
Nidaa Tounes (حركة نداء تونس, Appel de la Tunisie; usually translated as "Call of Tunisia", "Call for Tunisia", or "Tunisia's Call") is a big tent secularist political party in Tunisia.
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Pan-Arabism
Pan-Arabism, or simply Arabism, is an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of North Africa and West Asia from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, referred to as the Arab world.
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Politics of Tunisia
The politics of Tunisia takes place within the framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with a President serving as head of state, Prime Minister as head of government, a unicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law.
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Popular Front (Tunisia)
The Popular Front for the Realization of the Objectives of the Revolution (الجبهة الشعبية لتحقيق أهداف الثورة; Front populaire pour la réalisation des objectifs de la révolution), short Popular Front (ej-Jabha), is a leftist political and electoral alliance in Tunisia, made up of nine political parties and numerous independents.
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President of Tunisia
The President of Tunisia, formally known as the President of the Republic of Tunisia (رئيس الجمهورية التونسية, Président de la République tunisienne) is the head of state of Tunisia.
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Rached Ghannouchi
Rached Ghannouchi (راشد الغنوشي; born 7 June 1941), also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician and thinker, co-founder of the Ennahdha Party and serving as its "intellectual leader".
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Republican Party (Tunisia)
The Republican Party (الحزب الجمهوري, Parti républicain) is a centrist liberal party in Tunisia.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
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Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafist movement or Salafism is a reform branch or revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Egypt in the late 19th century as a response to European imperialism.
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Samir Dilou
Samir Dilou is a Tunisian politician.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Sidi Bouzid
Sidi Bouzid (سيدي بوزيد), sometimes called Sidi Bou Zid or Sīdī Bū Zayd, is a city in Tunisia and is the capital of Sidi Bouzid Governorate in the centre of the country.
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Tear gas
Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymator agent or lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima, meaning "tear"), sometimes colloquially known as mace,"Mace" is a brand name for a tear gas spray is a chemical weapon that causes severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and even blindness.
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Technocracy
Technocracy is a proposed system of governance where decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in their areas of responsibility, particularly scientific knowledge.
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Trial of Saddam Hussein
The Trial of Saddam Hussein was the trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office.
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Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia.
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Tunis Afrique Presse
Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) (وكالة تونس إفريقيا للأنباء) is a Tunisian press agency.
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Tunis Governorate
Tunis Governorate is the smallest and most populated of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Tunisia (تونس; Berber: Tunes, ⵜⵓⵏⴻⵙ; Tunisie), officially the Republic of Tunisia, (الجمهورية التونسية) is a sovereign state in Northwest Africa, covering. Its northernmost point, Cape Angela, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia's population was estimated to be just under 11.93 million in 2016. Tunisia's name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on its northeast coast. Geographically, Tunisia contains the eastern end of the Atlas Mountains, and the northern reaches of the Sahara desert. Much of the rest of the country's land is fertile soil. Its of coastline include the African conjunction of the western and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Basin and, by means of the Sicilian Strait and Sardinian Channel, feature the African mainland's second and third nearest points to Europe after Gibraltar. Tunisia is a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic. It is considered to be the only full democracy in the Arab World. It has a high human development index. It has an association agreement with the European Union; is a member of La Francophonie, the Union for the Mediterranean, the Arab Maghreb Union, the Arab League, the OIC, the Greater Arab Free Trade Area, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, the African Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77; and has obtained the status of major non-NATO ally of the United States. In addition, Tunisia is also a member state of the United Nations and a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Close relations with Europe in particular with France and with Italy have been forged through economic cooperation, privatisation and industrial modernization. In ancient times, Tunisia was primarily inhabited by Berbers. Phoenician immigration began in the 12th century BC; these immigrants founded Carthage. A major mercantile power and a military rival of the Roman Republic, Carthage was defeated by the Romans in 146 BC. The Romans, who would occupy Tunisia for most of the next eight hundred years, introduced Christianity and left architectural legacies like the El Djem amphitheater. After several attempts starting in 647, the Muslims conquered the whole of Tunisia by 697, followed by the Ottoman Empire between 1534 and 1574. The Ottomans held sway for over three hundred years. The French colonization of Tunisia occurred in 1881. Tunisia gained independence with Habib Bourguiba and declared the Tunisian Republic in 1957. In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution resulted in the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, followed by parliamentary elections. The country voted for parliament again on 26 October 2014, and for President on 23 November 2014.
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Tunisian Revolution
The Tunisian Revolution was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.
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Victoria Nuland
Victoria Jane Nuland (born 1961) is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State.
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Ziad Lakhdhar
Ziad Lakhdhar is a Tunisian politician.
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (زين العابدين بن علي,; born 3 September 1936) is a Tunisian former politician who served as President of Tunisia from 1987 until his ousting in 2011.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokri_Belaid
