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It's Tuesday, May 24, 2016 from Slate, it's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca.

So they call it the Arab Spring, but maybe they should just call it the Tunisia Spring.

It started in Tunisia with a self-immolation, the movement caught fire, but in country

after country things just wound up singed or in much of Libya, much of Syria emulated.

So maybe it's spring in the sense that it's not a season of rebirth, but in the sense

that it's a tight coil that if unwound could either propel things further or more likely

in my experience cause an injury if you get your finger caught inside.

But in Tunisia it does seem to be working.

A long New Yorker article a couple months ago about government crackdowns and the appeal

of militants had me all pessimistic, but Raqid Ganache, one reelection, he is a Muslim,

but he wants to be known as not in Islamist.

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