In Tunisia, Balancing Democracy and Religion

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A café near along one of Tunis’s more fashionable boulevards, where razor wire still surrounds the Ministry of the Interior headquarters. The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, and it remains the bright spot in the region with a moderate Islamist party taking power, a constitutional assembly elected and a strong middle class. But just like Egypt, and Libya, Tunisia is still struggling to come to terms with what role Islam will play in public life.

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

In Tunisia, Balancing Democracy and Religion

Tunisia is trying to build a new order with citizens who, having lived under repressive regimes for nearly 60 years, have little experience in accommodating their diversity.