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Tunisian bread riots (1983)

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29 Dec 1983 — After the government announces that the price of bread and semolina will roughly double, riots break out in Douz and the oases of the Nefzaoua, spreading north through Kasserine and Gafsa to Tunis by 3 January. On 6 January Bourguiba cancels the increase.

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Tunisia under Bourguiba (chapter 7 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 Tunisian bread riots (1983), turning point in Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
TURNING POINT · PROTEST AND CHANGE: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND TUNISIA, 1945–2015

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