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This blog post is a reportage on what's happening in Bardo sit-in that lasted for 11 days so far. #Bardo #Ra7il #Brahmi #Belaid Photo Album on August 3rd, 2013 at Demotix  http://www.demotix.com/news/2350471/eighth-day-non-stop-tunis-sit-calls-government-resign#media-2350158 Photo Album on August-06, 2013 at Demotix  http://www.demotix.com/news/2369203/tunisia-commemoration-chokri-belaids-assassination Reportage on the mass rally on yesterday commemoration of Belaid's assassination.

Yesterday, I was asked by American freshmen students during the Arabic Cultural Hour I organized : "Do people in Tunisia live peacefully with each other". My answer was: "We do because we have been raised on a culture of tolerance and solidarity". I was even giving examples of how we saved and hosted the Jews during the Holocaust or how the extended family stand together in crises. However, what I see today in Tunisia is none of our culture, spirit or grandma stories about the 50s and 60s. Under two dictatorships, people were exiled, jailed, tortured, oppressed by those in power but NEVER assassinated. Though all the frustration it has been through these last two years, the Tunisian society has started to take a political shape, from over 100 emerging parties in 2011 to three major blocs today, from bullshit discussions and unknown figures on media outlets to diverse constructive debate, solid views and interesting figures and leaders' positions, from...