NEW YORK — “The most important contest in the world right now is between the ISIS model and the Tunisian model,” said Rachid Ghannouchi, who was visiting New York this week. “It’s not between Islam and the West. It’s between ISIS and us.” Ghannouchi is the intellectual leader of Ennahda, Tunisia’s Islamist party that, despite […]
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Gunmen kill 27 in attack on Tunisian beach resort
TUNIS, Tunisia— A pair of gunmen killed at least 27 people on a Tunisian beach Friday in the latest attack on the north African country’s key tourism industry, the Interior Ministry said. The gunmen opened fire on the beach in the resort town of Sousse between the Soviva and Imperial Marhaba hotels before security forces […]
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Janet Swinchatt
1933 – 2015 TOPSHAM — Jan Swinchatt, beloved wife of Peter and mother of Tom, Karen and Jeff, passed on Friday, April 10, at Mass General Hospital due to a severe case of interstitial lung disease. Jan was born in Lewiston on June 30, 1933, to parents Margaret and Frank Bean. She grew up at […]
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Austin Bay: Democratic change may come to Tunisia
Tunisia continues to demonstrate that Arab Spring 2011’s revolts can indeed seed democratic change. On Oct. 26, Tunisia’s secularist party, Tunisian Call (Nidaa Tounes), won a parliamentary plurality. By winning at least 35 percent of parliament’s seats, Tunisian Call now has the opportunity to form a new coalition government. The Islamist Ennahda Party, which leads […]
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Austin Bay: Tunisia’s Arab Spring after three years
Three years after the Jan. 14, 2011, fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia continues to be Arab Spring’s most promising revolution. Despite economic troubles, bitter disagreements over the legal status of Islam and terror attacks by Islamist militants, Tunisia has managed to escape the communal horrors afflicting post-Arab Spring Syria (war) and […]