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Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Erin Clare Brown & Cyrus Roedel
9 episodes
9 months ago
Who would lead Tunisia into the next chapter of its history — the revolutionaries who had pushed Ben Ali out of power, or the returning Islamists who had spent years exiled in Europe?
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Who would lead Tunisia into the next chapter of its history — the revolutionaries who had pushed Ben Ali out of power, or the returning Islamists who had spent years exiled in Europe?
Show more...
Documentary
Society & Culture,
History,
News
Episodes (9/9)
Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 8: The Election
Who would lead Tunisia into the next chapter of its history — the revolutionaries who had pushed Ben Ali out of power, or the returning Islamists who had spent years exiled in Europe?
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4 years ago
31 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 7: The Kasbah Protests
Ben Ali was gone, but the trouble with popular uprisings is there's not a lot of foresight. So how do you bootstrap a democracy when you've never really had one?
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4 years ago
32 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 6: Dégage
The final days of the revolution crashed into Tunis and onto Avenue Habib Bourguiba, but as protesters called for Ben Ali to get out, a dark secret was hiding just below their feet.
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4 years ago
32 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 5: On the Media
The Arab Spring is often called the Twitter Revolution, but who were the people behind the keyboard sending all those tweets? And, maybe more importantly, who were the people reading and acting on the calls to protest they saw on social media? This week we follow along with Lina Ben Mhenni and other bloggers and activists who were crucial to making the Tunisian Revolution a success.
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4 years ago
32 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 4: The Interior
As Ben Ali loses his grasp on power, we meet two young lovers who are willing to risk everything to get the protests to spread.
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4 years ago
33 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 3: The Gafsa Mining Strikes
In a dusty mining town on the edge of the Sahara, we follow along with two young spies on a dangerous mission in what would become the prelude to the revolution.
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4 years ago
37 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 2: Ben Ali
What do a yacht heist, a tiger, and a couple dozen Porsche SUVs have to do with the police state that was Tunisia in 2010? Well, everything, actually. Come along for the ride as we meet Zine el-Abbedin Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, who built their outsized lives on the broken system that was crushing Tunisia.
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4 years ago
30 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Episode 1: Sidi Bouzid
Where were you on the day that changed the course of the 21st century? I'm not talking about 9/11, but about January 14, 2011, ten years ago today. You don't remember? Then you're not going to want to miss this story.
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4 years ago
30 minutes

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Coming Soon... Revolution 1: The story of the Tunisian Uprising
Ten years ago, a desperate young man set himself on fire in an obscure town in Tunisia, and set a new course for his country — and the world. The Arab Spring reshaped the course of the 21st century, but the uprising that inspired them all is often overlooked. Until now. Revolution 1 tells the story of the Tunisian uprising through the voices of those who lived it. We follow high schoolers-turned spies on a nail-biting mission to ferry video out of a blockaded city; a b...
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4 years ago
1 minute

Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
Who would lead Tunisia into the next chapter of its history — the revolutionaries who had pushed Ben Ali out of power, or the returning Islamists who had spent years exiled in Europe?