Weekend Reading: Tunisia’s Beggars, Post-Islamist Islamists, and Assyrians in Syria
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Weekend Reading: Tunisia’s Beggars, Post-Islamist Islamists, and Assyrians in Syria

Reading selections for the weekend of June 3, 2016.
2016Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi (L), talks with Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda movement, during the congress of the Ennahda Movement in Tunis, Tunisia (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters).
2016Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi (L), talks with Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda movement, during the congress of the Ennahda Movement in Tunis, Tunisia (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters).
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook
June 3, 2016 5:00 pm (EST)

Inel Tarfa interviews street beggars in Tunis, who express a complete lack of faith in the Tunisian government.

Nervana Mahmoud remains skeptical of Rachid al-Ghannouchi’s plan to divorce political Islam from his Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda.

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Mardean Isaac examines the plight of the Assyrian community in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern region of Syria.

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