History UsefulNotes / Tunisia

** Prime Minister: Najla Bouden Romdhane
** Assembly Speaker: Rached Ghannouchi

Tunisia ('''Arabic:''' '' تونس‎ Tūnis'', '''French:''' ''Tunisie''), officially known as the Tunisian Republic ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية التونسية‎ al-Jumhūriyyah at-Tūnisiyyah'', '''French:''' ''République tunisienne''), is a country at the very north of Africa, between UsefulNotes/{{Libya}} and UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}. It is the location of Ras ben Sakka, the northernmost point of the African continent.

* ''Film/{{Brotherhood}}'', about an ISIS jihadist who comes home.

!! Fiction set in Tunisia

* '''Highest point:''' Jebel ech-Chambi (1544 m/5,066 ft) (151st)

The Shia Fatimid Caliphate, which created UsefulNotes/{{Cairo}} and unified the Levant and Arabia, is mostly associated with Egypt today, but actually originated from Tunisia. When the caliph decided to move to his new capital in the Nile Delta, his followers back home declared themselves independent as the Zirid Emirate, which essentially meant they had made enemies in both the east (their former masters) and the west (the staunchly Sunni Almoravids). In revenge, the Fatimids directed the Banu Hillal, a nomadic Arab tribe infamous for its propensity to warfare and loose association with Islam, towards the Maghreb. The invasions led to the rapid Arabization as well as pastoralism of the region, both previously being alien to Berbers outside the Sahara, since the natives had no choice but to retreat to the mountains and desert due to the arrival of the invaders. Its influence is as such that the Arab clans of the Maghreb have since been classified as Pre-Hillalian and Hillalian. The destruction of the Zirids briefly led to Norman rule of Tunisia before the Almohads of UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}} took over. During its reign and that of its successors, Hafsids, hundreds of thousands of Andalusian Muslims emigrated to North Africa due to the Reconquista and brought with them new ideas; Ibn Khaldun, who was born in Tunis to Andalusian parents, became a pioneer of modern historiography and sociology.

* '''Highest point:''' Jebel ech-Chambi (1544 m/5,066 ft) (136th)

* '''Highest point:''' Jebel ech-Chambi (1544 m/5,066 ft) (154th)

** Prime Minister: Vacant

* Transitional[[note]]President Saied suspended both the Cabinet and Parliament in July 2021, placing the country under a one-man rule as he drafts a new constitution. Formerly unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic[[/note]]

** Prime Minister: None (suspended)
** Assembly Speaker: None (suspended)

* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' TN

* Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic

** Prime Minister: Hichem Mechichi
** Assembly Speaker: Rached Ghannouchi

* '''Area:''' 163,610 km (63,170 sq mi) (91st)

** Speaker of Parliament: Rached Ghannouchi

On 17 December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit vendor, [[ManOnFire set himself alight]] in front of a police station. Bouazizi had a history with the police; the police would confiscate his fruit cart, which he would set up again, which the police would confiscate again... you get the idea. Following his self-immolation, major protests against Ben Ali's regime erupted across Tunisia. On January 18, Ben Ali and his family fled to UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia, where the former died in 2019. The CDR was subsequently dissolved and banned. Elections to a new Constituent Assembly were held on October 23, resulting in a coalition government comprised of the three largest parties: the "Renaissance Party" or Ennahda (centre-right Islamists), the "Congress for the Republic" or CPR (centre-left secularists), and the "Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties" or Ettakatol (centre-left social-democrats).

Of particular note is that the protests and later revolution in Tunisia [[FollowTheLeader inspired similar protests across the Arab world]], including revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and UsefulNotes/{{Yemen}}. There have also been major protests in other countries, including UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, which has seen brutal crackdown on the protesters. Since Libya, Syria, and Yemen devolved into civil wars and Egypt saw [[FullCircleRevolution a return to military rule]], Tunisia is basically the only ''political'' success story of the UsefulNotes/ArabSpring it inspired; of course, the revolutions have seriously impacted all the Arab countries ''socially'', and this isn't [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848 the first time a major wave of revolution only saw success in one or two places]]. Since the democratic revolution, Tunisia has been consistently ranked as the Arab world's healthiest democracy (fellow Arab democracies Algeria, Lebanon, and Morocco still have serious problems to tackle on), while Freedom House considers it by far the most liberal Arab country.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Commandos}}: Behind Enemy Lines]]'' is set in Tunis for its 12th mission as your team must rescue an informant and escape before being discovered by German forces.

It's worth mentioning that Tunisia has been the site of quite a few movies where there is a desert scenery. Notable examples include the Tatooine scenes in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise (named after the city of Tataouine in southern Tunisia), Cairo in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', and the entirety of ''Series/JesusOfNazareth'', ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''[[note]]both shot in the same place within two years, in Monastir[[/note]] and ''Film/TheEnglishPatient''.

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Tunisia ('''Arabic:''' '' تونس‎ Tūnis'', '''French:''' ''Tunisie''), officially known as the Republic of Tunisia ('''Arabic:''' ''الجمهورية التونسية‎ al-Jumhūriyyah at-Tūnisiyyah'', '''French:''' ''République tunisienne''), is a country at the very north of Africa, between UsefulNotes/{{Libya}} and UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}. It is the location of Ras ben Sakka, the northernmost point of the African continent.

Of particular note is that the protests and later revolution in Tunisia [[FollowTheLeader inspired similar protests across the Arab world]], including revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and UsefulNotes/{{Yemen}}. There have also been major protests in other countries, including UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, which has seen brutal crackdown on the protesters. Since Libya, Syria, and Yemen devolved into civil wars and Egypt saw [[FullCircleRevolution a return to military rule]], Tunisia is basically the only ''political'' success story of the UsefulNotes/ArabSpring it inspired; of course, the revolutions have seriously impacted all the Arab countries ''socially'', and this isn't [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848 the first time a major wave of revolution only saw success in one or two places]].

It's worth mentioning that Tunisia has been the site of quite a few movies where there is a desert scenery. Notable examples include the Tatooine scenes in the Franchise/StarWars movies (named after the city of Tataouine in southern Tunisia), Cairo in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', and the entirety of ''Series/JesusOfNazareth'', ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''[[note]]both shot in the same place within two years, in Monastir[[/note]] and ''Film/TheEnglishPatient''.