Protester in Tahrir, Egypt carrying a banner of the Egyptian and Tunisian flags in 2011, that reads, “No voice higher than the voice of the people.” Tunisia‘s Jasmine Revolution resonated across the Middle East and North Africa pushing the region’s citizens to put pressure on their governments for greater accountability and increased human rights. Tunisia‘s President Kais Saied has taken recent steps to ignore parts of Tunisia’s constitution and rule by decree threatening the country’s decade-old democracy.

First published in the September 26, 2021, 8:53 a.m. edition

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