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Ghriba synagogue bombing (2002)

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11 Apr 2002 — A truck bomb claimed by al-Qaeda explodes beside the ancient synagogue on Djerba, killing about twenty people, most of them German tourists, as well as Tunisians. The regime cites the attack to justify still tighter security. Remember them.

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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 Ghriba synagogue bombing (2002), site of memory in Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
SITE OF MEMORY · PROTEST AND CHANGE: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND TUNISIA, 1945–2015

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