On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s former autocratic president whose extravagant life and oppressive rule inspired the first Arab Spring revolts of 2011, died Thursday in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was ...

Demonstrators gathered on the streets of Tunis, Tunisia, on Wednesday, January 14, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the ...

TUNIS, Jun (Reuters) - A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on Monday to 35 years in jail, six months after his overthrow in a revolution helped to inspire ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of events in Tunisia since independence from France and following the overthrow of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali last week: 1956 - Tunisia achieves ...

When reflecting on their Arab Spring revolution, Tunisians often say that freedom of expression was the only concrete achievement. As the country slides back toward autocracy, that, too, is being ...

Former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the first leader to be toppled by the Arab Spring revolts, died Thursday in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia's foreign ministry told AFP. He was 83. Former ...

Three years after crowds in Tunisia forced long-time dictator President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali into flight, and kicked off what would later be termed the “Arab Spring,” the world’s streets remain ...

Tunisia's central bank on Wednesday took over a bank controlled by a son-in-law of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the first such move against the huge assets controlled by the Ben Ali ...

President Kais Saied’s apparent landslide re-election is the latest sign that authoritarianism has returned to the birthplace of the Arab Spring. By Vivian Yee President Kais Saied, who has jailed ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Zine El-Abibine Ben Ali is a President for Tunisia with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Meeting. In his annual address to members of the ...

Earlier this month, Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home. Belaid’s death has shaken Tunisia, but it also illuminates larger trends in the post-revolution Arab world.