I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey. . . no I mean Tunisia.
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
Not a lot of people know about Tunisia. Sarah Palin thinks it's the name of one of Obama's kids.
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.
Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.
Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.
The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world. When they don't have support within their country, they couldn't continue more than - how many weeks ? - three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.
The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.
