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03148aam a2200481 i 4500 001 084749389F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 200922t20202020enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020041015 020 $a 1108816061 020 $a 9781108816069 020 $a 1108842003 020 $a 9781108842006 035 $a (OCoLC)1202730318 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-ly--- $a f-ly--- 050 00 $a DT266.94 $b .H46 2020 082 00 $a 961.105/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Henneberg, Sabina, $e author. 245 10 $a Managing transition : $b the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya / $c Sabina Henneberg. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xv, 266 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "On 13 January 2011, Tunisian President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali appeared on national television in an attempt to quiet a powerful anti-government uprising that had begun four weeks earlier. He announced a series of sweeping democratic reforms and price cuts and promised that he would not seek reelection. At the end of the speech, delivered in the local dialect, Ben Ali alluded to Charles de Gaulle's famous 1958 remarks in Algiers in which he told the French settlers of the colony that was fighting bitterly for its independence "I have understood you" ("fahimtikum.") The Tunisian people's response to Ben Ali was "get out" ("degage.") The next day, the government declared a state of emergency. Ben Ali fired nearly his entire cabinet and announced that legislative elections would take place within six months. Yet thousands of Tunisians took to the streets demanding Ben Ali's immediate resignation. They gathered first in front of the headquarters of the national trade union, l'Union Generale des Travailleurs Tunisiens (UGTT), at Mohammed Ali square, then moved to the front of the Ministry of Interior. Around five o'clock that evening, President Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, boarded a plane for Saudi Arabia in exile"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Tunisia $x Politics and government $y 2011- 650 0 $a Interim governments $z Tunisia. 651 0 $a Tunisia $x History $y Demonstrations, 2010- 651 0 $a Libya $x Politics and government $y 2011- 650 0 $a Interim governments $z Libya. 651 0 $a Libya $x History $y Civil War, 2011- 650 0 $a Arab Spring, 2010- 650 7 $a Interim governments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01743751 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Libya. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205534 651 7 $a Tunisia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205477 648 7 $a Since 2001 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Henneberg, Sabina, $t Managing transition $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. $z 9781108895729 $w (DLC) 2020041016 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022620.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=084749389F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search