The surprise decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a group of Tunisian mediators has won plaudits in Tunisia and abroad, and offered the cradle of the Arab Spring symbolic support as it pursues its laborious transition to democracy. The prize was awarded nearly five years after a desperate street vendor set himself alight in…
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