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President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the Arab Spring.
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician, military officer and dictator who served as the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Arab Spring
Protests and revolutions in the Arab world in the 2010s
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