Revolution 1: The Story of the Tunisian Uprising
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Revolution 1 brings the story of the Tunisian Revolution — the uprising that ignited the Arab Spring — to life through the voices of those who lived it.

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 wa...
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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 importan...
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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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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...
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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 tod...
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