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Ben Ali’s medical coup (1987)

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7 Nov 1987 — Prime Minister Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has doctors certify that Bourguiba, aged 84, is unfit to govern. Ben Ali takes power under Article 57 of the constitution and promises pluralism. Within four years Islamists are crushed and the opposition is hollowed out.

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Tunisia under Ben Ali (chapter 8 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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Map showing Ben Ali’s medical coup (1987), turning point in Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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