How a slap sparked Tunisia’s revolution – CBSNews

Tunisia and the spark that launched uprisings

Broadcast: February 20, 2011 / 13:37 minutes

Bob Simon reports from Tunisia, where protests against the repressive government not only toppled its autocratic ruler, but sparked the uprising in Egypt that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign.

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Tunisia and the spark that launched uprisings

How a slap sparked Tunisia’s revolution – CBSNews

Read transcript: How a slap sparked Tunisia’s revolution

A statue of Mark Zuckerberg in Tunisia?

Correspondent Bob Simon, fresh off the plane from Tunisia, explains how social media and other factors led to the Tunisian uprising that ignited Egypt and the rest of the Arab world.

Post-Revolution Tunisia Faces Economic Woes

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