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Friday, February 4, 2011

Tunisian Lessons

I was in Tunisia about ten days ago, as a representative of Democratic Lawyers in a delegation of the euro Mediterranean Network of Human Rights. I saw an entire nation that was recovering democracy. One of the jokes that circulated was: "Until yesterday, the Tunisians spent half their day to talk about Tunisian football and half to discuss Italian football.

Now go all the way to discuss politics. " In fact, everywhere you could see small crowds, deep in discussion, made up of young and old, military and civilians, women and men. A similar phenomenon is happening now in Egypt and elsewhere may soon happen, on the shores of the Mediterranean.