Fadia Hamdi was an easy person to hate.  As a municipal officer in pre-revolutionary Tunisia, she was a symbol of Ben Ali’s repressive regime; a state thug who abused her power against a poor, marginalized peddler.  At least, that is how one version of the revolutionary tale goes: Fadia Hamdi was an easy person to […]

  Defying the curfew on the fateful night of January 14, 2011, a young lawyer took to the streets and shouted at the top of his lungs, “Tunisians! Ben Ali has run away!”  His name is Abdul Nasser al-Uwaini and a three-minute video of him screaming the historic news is one of the best-known images […]