Tunisians woke up this week to a new reality: for the first time in their country's history, an Islamist party had emerged as an electoral winner.
This followed voting on Sunday in the first free and democratic multi-party elections since independence from France in 1956. Tunisia became the first country in the Arab world this year to shake off its dictator - president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali - who went into exile on January 14.
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