{"id":2789,"date":"2021-02-02T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2021-02-02T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:37:02","slug":"10-years-since-zine-el-abidine-ben-alis-flight-to-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"10 years since Zine El Abidine Ben Ali&#8217;s flight to Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>14 January 2021 marked 10 years since Zine El Abidine Ben Ali&#8217;s flight to Jeddah. Despite strict lockdown orders imposed to prevent long-expected protests,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/opinion-fr\/tunisie-emeutes-revolution-pauvrete-injustice-sociale-corruption-kais-saied\">people in Tunis&#8217;s working-class neighbourhoods have taken to the streets<\/a>\u00a0since the anniversary of Ben Ali&#8217;s flight in January.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This anniversary has been marked by a flurry of online conferences and publications, some of which are highlighted below. The Centre d&#8217;\u00c9tudes Maghr\u00e9bines \u00e0 Tunis (CEMAT) has made three conferences\/interviews around the topic available through their Maghrib in Past and Present podcast:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/conversation-with-lisa-anderson-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/conversation-with-lisa-anderson-and.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmUVf1PdQR96HS_7SXFf9F_PJaQQ\">Reflections on Tunisia&#8217;s State Building History and Contemporary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/conversation-with-lisa-anderson-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/conversation-with-lisa-anderson-and.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmUVf1PdQR96HS_7SXFf9F_PJaQQ\">Democratization Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/memoirs-memory-and-history-of-tunisian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/memoirs-memory-and-history-of-tunisian.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENsPGJGnPw0sLM457-7c_-WYIc3w\">On Memory, Remembering and Mourning in the Maghrib Since the Tunisian Revolution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/willis-from-tunis-10-ans-et-toujours.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.themaghribpodcast.com\/2021\/01\/willis-from-tunis-10-ans-et-toujours.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyey8zLDmz_gkA5SVeoeZf1rmByg\">&#8220;Willis from Tunis, 10 ans et toujours vivant!&#8221; &#8211; Entretien avec Nadia Khiari<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere, Mounir Saidani and Thierry Br\u00e9sillon explore <a href=\"https:\/\/orientxxi.info\/magazine\/tunisie-les-mouvements-sociaux-amorcent-une-nouvelle-revolution,4400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/orientxxi.info\/magazine\/tunisie-les-mouvements-sociaux-amorcent-une-nouvelle-revolution,4400&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6So9oYQpNq3hmKrEpeOqv8u9RNQ\">hopes of a new revolution through large-scale popular movements<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/orientxxi.info\/magazine\/tunisie-la-tentation-de-la-restauration,4422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/orientxxi.info\/magazine\/tunisie-la-tentation-de-la-restauration,4422&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFcKUAl3_IPx2bpWkG35V4RKkHhHg\">fears of a counter-revolution by the state&#8217;s elites<\/a>, while Khdadija Mohsen-Finan and Olfa Mamoun wonder about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapart.fr\/journal\/international\/211220\/mardi-29-decen-tunisie-la-violence-de-la-crise-economique-et-sociale-percute-l-apprentissage-de-la\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.mediapart.fr\/journal\/international\/211220\/mardi-29-decen-tunisie-la-violence-de-la-crise-economique-et-sociale-percute-l-apprentissage-de-la&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZbZPpyMTuLfEzh1p4RpMUapwufg\"> legacies of the revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Widening its focus to the wider region, the latest special issue of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2020-4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2020-4.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGqfVNdbKdBDW4MO0W5vaxfVcktGA\">Confluences M\u00e9diterrann\u00e9e<\/a> <\/i>brings together research on &#8220;revolutions and counter-revolutions&#8221; focusing on political transformations in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt and Lybia.<\/p>\n<p>The DREAM research project (DRafting and Enacting the Revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean. In Search for Dignity \u2013 from the 1950&#8217;s until today) has made their recently published <i>L&#8217;Esprit de la r\u00e9volte: Archives et des r\u00e9volutions arabes <\/i>(edited by Leyla Dakhli) available on their <a href=\"https:\/\/dream.hypotheses.org\/publication\/lesprit-de-la-revolte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dream.hypotheses.org\/publication\/lesprit-de-la-revolte&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHjJjVfdDnVn5FI7WqUY1SJYXRnQ\">website<\/a>. Contributors Kmar Bendana and Elena Chiti discuss the project and questions around the Tunisia revolution and its archives on <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceculture.fr\/emissions\/le-cours-de-lhistoire\/comment-archiver-ces-revolutions-arabes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.franceculture.fr\/emissions\/le-cours-de-lhistoire\/comment-archiver-ces-revolutions-arabes&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612376666420000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGbqYmjHNX4OQqwPx7ZD46N8oEdMw\">Le Cours de l&#8217;Histoire<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 January 2021 marked 10 years since Zine El Abidine Ben Ali&#8217;s flight to Jeddah. Despite strict lockdown orders imposed to prevent long-expected protests,\u00a0people in Tunis&#8217;s working-class neighbourhoods have taken to the streets\u00a0since the anniversary of Ben Ali&#8217;s flight in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,342],"tags":[562,957],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-podcast","tag-tunis","tag-zine-el-abidine-ben-ali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}