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Women and gays of Tunisia have more rights than in the rest countries of Arab World. During Ben Ali regime, Tunisia was maybe the only Muslim country without an active Islamist opposition group. Members of the Islamist al-Nahda (“The Renaissance,” in Arabic) movement were jailed and exiled in the 1990s. According to Nathan Brown, an Elliott School professor and an expert on the Middle East, the Tunisian regime essentially “squashed out politics.” In other Arab countries, one at least knew who was in the opposition, even if he could not speak to them. This was not the case in Tunisia, where Brown said, “no one knows what‘s on the menu.” Women would not like an extreme Islamist party to win the election of October 2011
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