In the secular conservatism of the Arab-Muslim world, Tunisia has broken an old taboo. Everything went in August 2017 when Beji 90 year old Caid Sebsi, president of the country’s Maghreb and Mashrek lab, has set up a commission for individual freedoms and equality. The commission’s recommendations resulted in a bill defended by the executive…....
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