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Women’s rights in Tunisia: Could first female mayor signal democratic change?
Last week, the Tunisian capital elected Souad Abderrahim its first female mayor in the first city elections since the Arab Spring. Could her victory signify a new direction for Tunisia’s formerly Islamist Ennahda party?
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12.07.2018 | 11:27
Beji Caid Essebsi, Ennahda, Islamist, Souad Abderrahim, Tunisia, women's rights, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Barely significant, partially feminist
The images of Amina Tyler, a 19-year-old Tunisian Muslim woman agitating against the oppression of women in her society by posing topless have gone viral followed by rumors of her arrest and being sent for psychiatric treatment. The incident simply calls for mobilizing support to save the woman from any possible backlash, but the feminists of our modern world seem to have gone bonkers.
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18.04.2013 | 7:47
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