May 24, 2013
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CRISIS IN TUNISIA: Arab world, Mideast Christians ponder populist revolution
TUNIS, Tunisia (BP)—When 26-year-old college grad Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire Jan. 4 to protest his narrow slate of future options, he sparked a revolutionary blaze that toppled Tunisia's government.
Tunisia: Fertile ground for early Christianity
Beautiful Tunisia: A call to prayer
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Alongside several other professors, John Mark Yeats and I led a group of students to Tunisia several years ago to study North African Christian history and theology. Today, we see occurring what the media has dubbed a "jasmine revolution," which is apparently the first populist rejection of an Arab leader and the first governmental change wrought through the activities of Wikileaks.

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