This week in the Middle East | Brian Whitaker
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/30/tunisia-uprising-egypt-hostages?CMP=twt_gu
The biggest story from the Middle East this week … No, the biggest, most important and most inspiring story from the Middle East this year is one that most readers may only vaguely have heard of, if at all. It’s the Tunisian uprising.
For almost two weeks now, people up and down the country have been protesting, some of them rioting, others demonstrating peacefully – and all in a police state where the penalties for defying the regime are severe.