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TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: A customer greets a friend at the cafe of L'Etoile du Nord, where customers are unabashed about breaking the rules during Ramadan, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.

Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutionary movement, was plunged into a new political crisis on Thursday when assassins shot Mohamed Brahmi, 58, leader of the Arab nationalist People’s Party, an opposition party leader outside his home in a hail of gunfire.

L’Etoile du Nord, besides being a cafe, is also an experimental theater that never closes, a free-wheeling space for spectators and performers, and a haunt for actors, intellectuals, free-thinkers and revolutionaries.

Tunisian actor and theater director, Noureddine El Ati, who founded the theater company in 1997, says the venue is unique in all of North Africa.

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TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: A customer greets a friend at the cafe of L'Etoile du Nord, where customers are unabashed about breaking the rules during Ramadan, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br /> <br /> Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring revolutionary movement, was plunged into a new political crisis on Thursday when assassins shot Mohamed Brahmi, 58, leader of the Arab nationalist People’s Party, an opposition party leader outside his home in a hail of gunfire.<br /> <br /> L’Etoile du Nord, besides being a cafe, is also an experimental theater that never closes, a free-wheeling space for spectators and performers, and a haunt for actors, intellectuals, free-thinkers and revolutionaries.<br /> <br /> Tunisian actor and theater director, Noureddine El Ati, who founded the theater company in 1997, says the venue is unique in all of North Africa.