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Judy Heumann

...we worked with them, and we went to Tunisia , Algeria, and Jordan. That's how i...

Huma Abedin

...The protests had been going on in Tunisia since the very end of 2010. I thin...
...I displayed in public service was in Tunisia . It was in 1999. I was the lea...
...lead advance for that trip for Hillary. Tunisia , even then, was an example of th...
...was so mad at me. So I had this, like, Tunisia experience seeded in my head. Lik...
...Ben Alis—oh my god, what's his name in Tunisia ? I want to say it felt hopeful i...

...I mean, [sighs] she— It was, like, Tunisia , Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Bahrain i...
...had been watching the town hall in Tunisia . There's a woman, she asks a question...

Esther Brimmer

...to World Press Freedom Day in Tunisia . We were the only ones to send ...
...places and it happened to be in Tunisia that year. And so the confluence of i...
...And so the confluence of it being in Tunisia and they were working on thei...
...so it was an important time to be in Tunisia and then be able to talk about huma...
...back at Secretary Clinton's trip to Tunisia , which is, I think, a month or tw...

...And just curious what you found in Tunisia and who were you hearing from. Was i...
...about what was important, either in Tunisia or the region, because there wer...

Daniel Fried

...back to Algeria. We sent some back to Tunisia . The standard was not, Are thes...

Geraldine Richmond

...as an example. North Africa—Morocco, Tunisia , and Algeria. Through State Departmen...
...a few visits to that region. And with Tunisia , as the example, of being the one tha...
...a woman we've been working with from Tunisia in our water project in Africa, workin...

Omezzine Khelifa

...I was born and raised in Carthage, Tunisia —so now I'm home—to a family o...
...you speak about the real situation of Tunisia , you're considered as a politica...
...terrorist, threatening the stability of Tunisia . So this is the situation i...
...remember when I was a teenager back in Tunisia , going to high school. I had als...
...be almost the only space of liberty in Tunisia , like, for youth. There was yout...

...student movement in the late '70s in Tunisia that were very violently oppressed...
...rather than going to school in Tunisia . That decision was motivated by you o...
...as my parents are. It's very rare in Tunisia too. It's kind of known as ...
...and Tunisians were, in community there? Tunisia invested heavily in education—women'...
...So there was a policy where Tunisia would send top students to countrie...
...most diaspora—like, those were sent by Tunisia at least were well educated, wer...
...That was the chosen immigration for Tunisia now. It seems maybe that i...
...in fact have their attention drawn to Tunisia . It could be the case. It could b...
...my mother about the feelings here in Tunisia . And she said, “Look, we were s...
...something could happen elsewhere in Tunisia , or just, this was exciting that i...
...to the possibility of change in Tunisia at least in the minds of, maybe, you...
...repercussions of such an election on Tunisia or on the region. I didn't know abou...
...you will never be able to go back to Tunisia , the country that you love so much....
...to march from this remote area of Tunisia , and go in to big cities and th...
...They need to talk about us, talk about Tunisia , in the news, because this is wher...
...that in France and I was doing that in Tunisia . I was also meeting with a lot of ne...
...be building the new foundations for Tunisia . This was a very inspiring moment. Al...
...to follow the feminist activists in Tunisia , that were trying to have already th...
...rights that we've been building since Tunisia 's independence in the '50s. But I als...
...needed to contribute in building a new Tunisia democracy, I needed to be part of ...
...visit a country like that as a tourist? Tunisia 's image was a country of sun, o...
...tourism industry is so important to Tunisia 's economy. In 2010 tourism was seve...
...2010 tourism was seven percent of the Tunisia GDP [gross domestic product] . It wa...
...reform. The idea was also to diversify Tunisia 's destination. We were not only ...
...destinations that you could find in Tunisia and that were very close—like, tw...
...of your job was to think about Tunisia as a whole country, rather than jus...
...for the West the understanding of Tunisia . That is, to sell Tunisia as somethin...
...of Tunisia. That is, to sell Tunisia as something else than just a prett...
...When you say tourism destination, Tunisia as a touristic destination that is no...
...experience, that you would discover Tunisia differently, that you would mee...
...really needed to show the other side of Tunisia that was not present in the media. Fo...
...2011, and you're engaged in producing a Tunisia for the world, an image of it—are yo...
...thought processes, or you're really in Tunisia ? I think every Tunisian that wa...
...we needed a new vision of democracy in Tunisia , and supporting the will of people fo...
...decreasing the rates of the loans that Tunisia was contracting. So that became mor...
...in finance. The financial situation in Tunisia is pretty stark, I think is fair t...
...That was all about repositioning Tunisia as a country in transition, talkin...
...to support real transition, like Tunisia . That was, basically, what we wer...
...West or the actors, who wanted to see Tunisia succeed but at the same time wer...
...also congressmen who have supported Tunisia , or are willing to support Tunisia...
...Tunisia, or are willing to support Tunisia . Those who are in the—how do you cal...
...in the—how do you call it in the US? In Tunisia it's the Budget Committee. OMB...
...who were really supportive of Tunisia . There were also conversations abou...
...the troubles on the Libyan border with Tunisia , and the sense maybe that that borde...
...that were in the Americans' minds about Tunisia , not that you were building ...
...Also, probably the security sector in Tunisia was the least one open to change, th...
...protect everything that was going on. Tunisia and the US are longtime allies. The U...
...Europe wanted that everything stays in Tunisia , and a peaceful Tunisia, because tha...
...because that was the interest. Peaceful Tunisia was peaceful Southern Europe. Also wit...
...was a risk to the whole region. And Tunisia was a big enough hope. So we needed t...
...them. You described the need of Tunisia to have a Marshall Plan. Was that ...
...Nobody was seeing what was happening in Tunisia as a same situation as post-World Wa...
...It's an interesting question because in Tunisia we don't see political parties as par...
...Jomaa brought some new possibilities to Tunisia . Is that a sentiment that you felt a...
...at least in the American [unclear] that Tunisia reappears to the American imaginary ...
...eager to know what's next for you, for Tunisia . We'll have that conversation anothe...
...the international community gave to Tunisia , because I saw that a lot of money wa...
...I was born and raised in Carthage , Tunisia—so now I'm home—to a famil...
...He was a high-school friend from Carthage . And you could recognize him. He wa...
...have also cultural activities. We have Carthage ruins all over, Roman ruins all ove...
...coast and the elite cities of Tunis and Carthage , or from the beach resorts. Bu...

Victoria Nuland

...literally sit on a stool on a stage in Tunisia with a group of students and answe...

Anthony Foxx

...traveling with her from her hometown in Carthage , North Carolina, on a long bus ride...

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