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  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The five notebooks used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, are here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
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Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4136.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The rear cover of the fifth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4129.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: An extract of the fourth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4107.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The third notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4102.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The second notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4138.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The fifth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4125.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: An extract of the fifth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4119.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The fourth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4110.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The third notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here, opened on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4087.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The fifth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here, opened on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4115.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The fourth notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here, opened on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4105.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: An extract of the third notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4090.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: The first notebook used by Mariasandra Mariani (56) during her 14-months captivity with al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. The other notebooks were given to her by her kidnappers during the following months of her captivity.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4075.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
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The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0214.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (on the left a list of items bought before being kidnapped; on the right is a Hail Mary prayer she wrote a week after she was kidnapped) here on a table at her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.<br />
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The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. The other notebooks were given to her by her kidnappers during the following months of her captivity.<br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4077.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0220.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014. Above her are pictures of her recent trips in between 2007 2010 in Erg d'Admer, Tadrart, Djanet, before being kidnapped.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4058.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0202.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0198.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in the garden of her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4183.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in the garden of her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4176.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014. Above her are pictures of her recent trips in between 2007 2010 in Erg d'Admer, Tadrart, Djanet, before being kidnapped.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4021.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014. Above her are pictures of her recent trips in between 2007 2010 in Erg d'Admer, Tadrart, Djanet, before being kidnapped.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_3974.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in the Sahara desert, leafs through the pages of the journals she wrote during her captivity, in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_3952.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, is here in her family farmhouse in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_3946.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0204.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0193.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: A family portrait of the Mariasandra Mariani's family with (L-F) Lido Mariani (85, father), Mariasandra Mariani (56),  Fiammetta Tarchi, (82, mother), Mariangela Mariani, (44, sister), in their farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014. <br />
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Mariasandra Mariani (56) is an Italian hostage tjat was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4232.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert, poses for a portrait in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014. Above her are pictures of her recent trips in between 2007 2010 in Erg d'Admer, Tadrart, Djanet, before being kidnapped.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_4029.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 JULY  2014: Mariasandri Mariani's first notebook used during her captivity (written with a piece of charcoal), in Rome, Italy, on July 21st 2014.<br />
<br />
The first yellow notebook Mrs Mariani used as a journal during her captiviy was confiscated when she was kidnapped. She then asked it back after the first week of captivity. <br />
<br />
Mariasandra Mariani is an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in captivity in the Sahara desert.
    CIPG_20140721_NYT-AlQaeda_0211.jpg
  • SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA, ITALY - 18 JUNE 2014: Mariasandra Mariani (56), an Italian hostage kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria in 2011 and released in Burkina Faso after 14 months in the Sahara desert, leafs through the pages of the journals she wrote during her captivity, in her family farm house in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, on June 18th 2014.
    CIPG_20140618_NYT_AlQuaeda__M3_3958.jpg
  • ON SPEC. 13 February, 2011. Lampedusa, Italy. 83 illegal immigrants, mostly from Tunisia, are here on a bus ready to drive them from the harbour to the immigration holding centre of the Island a few hours after they arrived by the boatload. The 83 immigrants left Tunisia on Saturday and arrived in Lampedusa, a small Italian Island between Sicily and Tunisia, on Sunday evening at 8pm. In less than a week, more than 4,000 illegal immigrants have arrived on Lampedusa's shores. The Tunisians are fleeing confusion following street protests and the Jan. 14 ouster of their longtime autocratic president, Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali...©2011 Gianni Cipriano.+1 646 465 2168 (USA).+39 328 567 7923 (Italy).gianni@giannicipriano.com.www.giannicipriano.com
    Lampedusa_24.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Abdulhamid Alwini, 57, drives his lifetime friend Said Ferjani around his hometown Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1157.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, is invited by the Abdulhamid Alwini's family in Kairouan, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. Said Ferjani and Abdulhamid Alwini (not in picture) have been friends since elementary school, and haven't seen each other for 22 years when Said flew the country. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111217_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1093.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani (center), 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, discusses with his lifetime friend of the Negra mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111217_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1041.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, in Sousse, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1528.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, in Sousse, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1518.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Street life in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1378.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, looks at what remains of his father's house who died in 2006 in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1311.jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, walks in the Negra mosque (under renovation) where he started his activism when he was 16 years old, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1214.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, walks after the dawn prayer in the streets of his hometown Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1120.jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, is photographed at the Nahda headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111217_NYT_Ferjani__MG_0964.jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, is photographed at the Nahda headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 27 JULY 2013: Tunisian mourners gather in front of Mohamed Brahmi's house in Ilghazela district , before the start of his funeral in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 27th 2013.<br />
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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.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Customers have drinks or spend time on their laptops in the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, which works as a cafe when not in use during rehearsals or plays, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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: Customers have drinks or spend time on their laptops in the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, which works as a cafe when not in use during rehearsals or plays, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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: Mounir Argoubi, a 43 years old teacher as well as a local representative and activist of the Ennahda party, is here in in his car in the Ettadhamen district in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0716.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: A young man observes people gathering for sit-in at the UGTT Union (Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail) to protest against the assassination of Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0573.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: A man watches the clashes between people protesting for Mohamed Brahmi's assassination and a local gang by the Medina in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0558.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: People rallied in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in front of the Interior Ministry to protest against the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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The assassination, which coincided with celebrations for the 56th anniversary of Tunisian statehood after independence from France, came as Tunisia was still grappling with a democratic transition following the January 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s autocratic leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and forced him into exile. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that spawned similar uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: People rallied in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in front of the Interior Ministry to protest against the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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The assassination, which coincided with celebrations for the 56th anniversary of Tunisian statehood after independence from France, came as Tunisia was still grappling with a democratic transition following the January 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s autocratic leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and forced him into exile. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that spawned similar uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 27 JULY 2013: Tunisian mourners gather in front of Mohamed Brahmi's house in Ilghazela district , before the start of his funeral in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 27th 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.
    CIPG_20130727_NYT_Tunisia__MG_2064.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Anti-government activists gather in front of the National Constituent Assemby (NCA) to chant anti-government and anti-Nidaa (opposition party) slogan, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_1484.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013:  Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou (left) listens to journalists' questions during a press conference at the Interior Ministry as the country marks a day of mourning after gunmen killed opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0921.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: Imed Dghiy, 43, of the Men for the Protection of the Revolution is here at the headquarter in the Kram disrtrict, in a former RCD headquarter in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130725_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0435.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 25 JULY 2013: People rallied in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in front of the Interior Ministry to protest against the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 25th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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The assassination, which coincided with celebrations for the 56th anniversary of Tunisian statehood after independence from France, came as Tunisia was still grappling with a democratic transition following the January 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s autocratic leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and forced him into exile. The Tunisian revolution was the catalyst that spawned similar uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
    CIPG_20130725_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0217.jpg
  • LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - APRIL 6: An improvised tent on the so-called Hill of Shame, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions before being transferred on April 5, 2011 in Lampedusa, Italy.??The so-called Hill of Shame (definition given by the Italian media) is a hill in the island of Lampedusa where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called "Door of Europe", fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren't provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, mats, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.
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  • LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - APRIL 6: An improvised tent on the so-called Hill of Shame, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions before being transferred on April 5, 2011 in Lampedusa, Italy.??The so-called Hill of Shame (definition given by the Italian media) is a hill in the island of Lampedusa where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called "Door of Europe", fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren't provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, mats, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.
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  • LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - APRIL 6: An improvised tent on the so-called Hill of Shame, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions before being transferred on April 5, 2011 in Lampedusa, Italy.??The so-called Hill of Shame (definition given by the Italian media) is a hill in the island of Lampedusa where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called "Door of Europe", fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren't provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, mats, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, in Sousse, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, in Sousse, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani (left), 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, discusses with his former high school professor Sheilkh Abdulwahab, 80, who joined the Nahda movement and was jailed under Ben Ali's regime, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, hugs a friend he hasn't seen during his 22 years exile in front of his father's house who died in 2006 in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1346.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A mattress is in the abandoned house of Said Ferjani's father who died in 2006, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1317.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A closet is in the abandoned house of Said Ferjani's father who died in 2006, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1316.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A teapot lies on the floor of the abandoned house of Said Ferjani's father who died in 2006, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1315.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: The secondary school of Said Ferjani is located in the outskirts of Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1282.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A young man walk in the degraded outskirts of Saud Ferjani's hometow Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1274.jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, walks out of the Negra mosque where he started his activism when he was 16 years old, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Time
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1250.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: The side entrance of the Negra Mosque, where Said Ferjani, 57, started his activism when he was 16 years old, is photographed in Kairouan, Tunisia, on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani, 54, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111217_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1079.jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, is photographed at the Nahda headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111217_NYT_Ferjani__MG_0994.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani (left), 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, discusses with his former high school professor Sheilkh Abdulwahab, 80, who joined the Nahda movement and was jailed under Ben Ali's regime, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1431.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Sheilkh Abdulwahab, 80, was Said Ferjani's former high school professor who later joined the Nahda movement and was jailed under Ben Ali's regime, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1427.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: ,  in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1391.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, meets his lifetime friends at the Cafe de Paris in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1389.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, hugs a friend he hasn't seen during his 22 years exile in front of his father's house who died in 2006 in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1346.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, walks next to his father's house who died in 2006 in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1336.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A mattress is in the abandoned house of Said Ferjani's father who died in 2006, in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjan's father died in Kairouan 2006 while Said was in exile in the UK since 1989. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20111218_NYT_Ferjani__MG_1317.jpg
  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Abdulhamid Alwini, 57, drives his lifetime friend Said Ferjani around his hometown Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A Nahda party banner for the Tunisian Constituent Assemby is placed aboce the Medina wall in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: A man cooks breakfast at dawn in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 54, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Abdulhamid Alwini, 57, Said Ferjani's lifetime friend since elementary school, enters the Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba for dawn prayer in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. Said Ferjani, 54, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 18 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, prays at dawn at the  Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, prays at dawn at the  Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba in Kairouan, Tunisia on 18 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, says goodbye to his lifetime friends in Kairouan, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: The side entrance of the Negra Mosque, where Said Ferjani, 57, started his activism when he was 16 years old, is photographed in Kairouan, Tunisia, on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani, 54, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba) photographed at night in  Kairouan, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. It is considered as one of the most important monuments of Islamic civilization as well as a worldwide architectural masterpiece. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani, 57, started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Kairouan, Tunisia - 17 December, 2011: A sign on the highway indicates the exit for Kairouan, the hometown of Said Ferjani, 57, senior member of the political and communication bureau of the Nahda (Renaissance) party, nearby Kairouan, Tunisia on 17 December, 2011. In the 24 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first elections since the Tunisian Revolution, the party won 40% of the vote, and 89 of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party. Said Ferjani started his activism in the Negra mosque of his hometown Kairouan when he was 16 years old, debating on politics, philosophy, economy and world events. In 1989 former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali turned against Nahda (or Ennahda) and jailed 25,000 activists. Said Ferjani was jailed and tortured. He then flew Tunisia and moved to the UK. He came back to Tunisia after 22 years, after former dictator Ben Ali flew the country.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • Tunis, Tunisia - 19 December, 2011: Lina Ben Mhenni, 28, cyber activist author of the popular blog "A Tunisian Girl" and teaching assistant of linguistics at the University of Tunis, is photographed in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 19, 2011. Her influential blog, which was censored under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule, was one of the most revealing and scathing criticisms of Tunisian society, focusing particularly on issues like women’s rights and press freedom. When unrest began in Tunisia in January 2011, Ben Mhenni began traveling across the country to take photos and video footage of both the protests and people she says were killed in the ensuing government crackdowns. She visited local hospitals and took pictures of those injured or killed by the police. She risked her safety as one of the only Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on international broadcasts before the “Jasmine Revolution" began. Described as one of the bravest bloggers in the world, much of Ben Mhenni’s writing focuses on freedom of expression and the rights of women and students.<br />
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Ph. Gianni CiprianoTunis, Tunisia - 19 December, 2011: Lina Ben Mhenni, 28, cyber activist author of the popular blog "A Tunisian Girl" and teaching assistant of linguistics at the University of Tunis, is photographed in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 19, 2011. Her influential blog, which was censored under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule, was one of the most revealing and scathing criticisms of Tunisian society, focusing particularly on issues like women’s rights and press freedom. When unrest began in Tunisia in January 2011, Ben Mhenni began traveling across the country to take photos and video footage of both the protests and people she says were killed in the ensuing government crackdowns. She visited local hospitals and took pictures of those injured or killed by the police. She risked her safety as one of the only Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on internation
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  • Tunis, Tunisia - 19 December, 2011: Lina Ben Mhenni, 28, cyber activist author of the popular blog "A Tunisian Girl" and teaching assistant of linguistics at the University of Tunis, is photographed in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 19, 2011. Her influential blog, which was censored under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule, was one of the most revealing and scathing criticisms of Tunisian society, focusing particularly on issues like women’s rights and press freedom. When unrest began in Tunisia in January 2011, Ben Mhenni began traveling across the country to take photos and video footage of both the protests and people she says were killed in the ensuing government crackdowns. She visited local hospitals and took pictures of those injured or killed by the police. She risked her safety as one of the only Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on international broadcasts before the “Jasmine Revolution" began. Described as one of the bravest bloggers in the world, much of Ben Mhenni’s writing focuses on freedom of expression and the rights of women and students.<br />
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Ph. Gianni CiprianoTunis, Tunisia - 19 December, 2011: Lina Ben Mhenni, 28, cyber activist author of the popular blog "A Tunisian Girl" and teaching assistant of linguistics at the University of Tunis, is photographed in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 19, 2011. Her influential blog, which was censored under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule, was one of the most revealing and scathing criticisms of Tunisian society, focusing particularly on issues like women’s rights and press freedom. When unrest began in Tunisia in January 2011, Ben Mhenni began traveling across the country to take photos and video footage of both the protests and people she says were killed in the ensuing government crackdowns. She visited local hospitals and took pictures of those injured or killed by the police. She risked her safety as one of the only Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on internation
    CIPG_20111219_TUNISIA_Lina-Ben-Mhenn...jpg
  • Tunis, Tunisia - 19 December, 2011: Lina Ben Mhenni, 28, cyber activist author of the popular blog "A Tunisian Girl" and teaching assistant of linguistics at the University of Tunis, is photographed in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 19, 2011. Her influential blog, which was censored under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule, was one of the most revealing and scathing criticisms of Tunisian society, focusing particularly on issues like women’s rights and press freedom. When unrest began in Tunisia in January 2011, Ben Mhenni began traveling across the country to take photos and video footage of both the protests and people she says were killed in the ensuing government crackdowns. She visited local hospitals and took pictures of those injured or killed by the police. She risked her safety as one of the only Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on international broadcasts before the “Jasmine Revolution" began. Described as one of the bravest bloggers in the world, much of Ben Mhenni’s writing focuses on freedom of expression and the rights of women and studentsonly Tunisians to criticize the repressive government openly on international broadcasts before the “Jasmine Revolution" began. Described as one of the bravest bloggers in the world, much of Ben Mhenni’s writing focuses on freedom of expression and the rights of women and students.<br />
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Ph. Gianni Cipriano
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Opposition members of the National Constituent Assembly give a conference after the assassination of Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Actors undress and relax after the rehearsal of the play "Blanche Aurore Celeste" by Noelle Renaude, in the dressing room of the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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: Actors undress and relax after the rehearsal of the play "Blanche Aurore Celeste" by Noelle Renaude, in the dressing room of the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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: Leading actor Sonia Zarg Ayouna, 42, rehearsals during the play "Blanche Aurore Celeste" by Noelle Renaude, in the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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: Leading actor Sonia Zarg Ayouna (right), 42, rehearsals during the play "Blanche Aurore Celeste" by Noelle Renaude, in the theatre space of L'Etoile du Nord, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_1516.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Anti-government activists gather in front of the National Constituent Assemby (NCA) to chant anti-government and anti-Nidaa (opposition party) slogan, in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: A waitress prepares fresh glasses of water and lemonade at L'Etoile du Nord, a funky post-modern cafe in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
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  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013: Customers read newspapers and work on their laptops at the cafe L'Etoile du Nord in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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 />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_1009.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013:  Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou (left) during a press conference at the Interior Ministry as the country marks a day of mourning after gunmen killed opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0840.jpg
  • TUNIS, TUNISIA - 26 JULY 2013:  Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou speaks during a press conference at the Interior Ministry as the country marks a day of mourning after gunmen killed opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi (left) in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 26th 2013.<br />
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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.
    CIPG_20130726_NYT_Tunisia__MG_0760.jpg
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