Tuesday, January 14, marks 14 years since the fall of Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, which sparked ... and on December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor from ...

Though his name wouldn’t ring a bell to most in this country, Mohamed Bouazizi was ... that took hold of the country in the wake of Ben Ali’s fall has withered. And in his new book, If ...

After all, death by self-immolation is a part of Tunisian political history, the Jasmine Revolution having been instigated by the public suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi ... of the Ben Ali regime ...

A series of secretly recorded phone calls believed to be made by former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali reveal his most trusted advisers urged him to stay away from Tunisia after he ...

The BBC has obtained extraordinary recordings which we believe to be of phone calls made by former Tunisian dictator, president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali ... vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set fire ...

In a desperate protest against the corrupt and oppressive government that had made it impossible for him to earn a living, food-cart vendor Mohamed Bouazizi stood before ... where it toppled dictator ...

Fayda Hamdy is a Tunisian policewoman who famously slapped street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December ... I stayed home all week and then president Ben Ali visited Bouazizi at the hospital on ...

After Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor ... corruption and Tunisia’s autocratic president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. A month later, after 23 years in power, he fled to Saudi Arabia.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary since the flight into exile of iron-fisted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was pushed from power in a popular ...

in Mohamed Bouazizi Square in the centre of the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia (AFP photo) TUNIS — Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, ...

It was in Sidi Bouzid that Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and vegetable salesman ... but also toppled long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Ben Ali fled into exile on January 14, 2011, sparking ...

In a photo from December 28, 2010, former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, second from left, visits Mohamed Bouazizi in hospital after the street vendor set himself alight [File ...