Jul 16
Apolitical, peaceful, spontaneous: since January 2011, the Tunisian revolution has been called many things. Yet it was first and foremost a revolution of the youth.
From the figure of 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation triggered the Arab Spring, to the faces of Tunisia’s adolescent martyrs dead under Ben Ali’s bullets, the country’s salvation undoubtedly came from its younger generation.
Yet more than two years later, Tunisia’s disgruntled youth is decidedly disconnected from its decision makers. Both domestic and international observers have asked: “Why did you allow older generations to confiscate your revolution?” “Where is Tunisia’s revolutionary youth?”
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