Omar Chaaban

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Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s current caretaker Prime Minister, sat with US President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday, while his government fell apart back home in Lebanon. The deliberate collapse of the government was orchestrated by the so-called March 8 coalition in a last attempt to end the country’s cooperation with the United Nation’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) before it issues indictments of the alleged assassins behind the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

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In the wake of an Arab world-shattering political development, the government of Tunisia has been effectively overthrown via an amalgamation of civil unrest, grassroots mobilization and what one could call a coup d’esprit.

Tunisia’s new political masters must proceed by distancing themselves from self-congratulatory triumphalism. They will have to muster courage, display political imagination and modesty, and exercise tolerance of difference in order to fashion a durable democratic order in a post-Ben Ali Tunisia.

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