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Weekend Reading: Portraying Tunisia’s Revolution, Turkey’s TAK, and Orwellian Syria

Reading selection for the weekend of March 4, 2016.

<p>A girl waves a Tunisian flags during celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of Tunisia&#8217;s 2011 revolution, in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters).</p>
A girl waves a Tunisian flags during celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters).

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Khadija Mohsen-Finan discusses discrepancies in the portrayal of the Tunisian revolution around the world and Tunisians’ own purview on the achievements and difficulties of the past five years.

Frederike Geerdink considers the possibility of recent cooperation between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group and the more radical Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) group.

James Denselow compares Bashar al-Assad’s Syria to the dystopian society in George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, drawing parallels in the use of language and the practice of “doublethink” to create a propaganda narrative.