Month: October 2018

Book Review of “Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly”: The Limits of Tunisian Exceptionalism

How different is Tunisia when compared to other Arab countries? The answer, according to Safwan M. Masri in his 2017 book on this northern African country, is that Tunisia constitutes “An Arab Anomaly”. December 2018 will see the eighth anniversary of Mohamed Bouazizi’s immolation in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Such an act of sheer desperation, whose Continue Reading