The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Ben Ali in La Goulette

Uploaded by EngagementCitoyen on 2012-02-08.

I've written before about Tunisia's great get-out-the-vote initiatives. But the above video shows the best of all. What they did is restore a giant poster of Ben Ali that used to be a landmark of La Goulette, a suburb of Tunis. Passersby are astounded as they see it in the morning, and their stupefaction shifts to anger. They are being filmed by hidden cameras and don't know what's happening. Watch what they do, it's really clever.