The events of the last week in Tunisia are remarkable and unprecedented in the Arab world, a dictator ousted by a popular uprising. From Morocco to Oman the question being asked is who will be next? One regime cries out for removal—Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya.
Dictators have been overthrown in many countries in the last two decades even in Muslim states like Pakistan, but the Arab world has never seen a dictator tossed out like Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali who had ruled for twenty-three years. He is now off to that retirement home for Muslim dictators since Uganda’s Idi Amin, Saudi Arabia. What will come next in Tunisia is far from clear. Whether it is a trend setter or a unique event is unclear too.
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