By Mustapha Tlili
NEW YORK – As I try to grasp the full meaning of the Tunisian Revolution and gauge its future, I am looking at my desk, where I have spread two issues of The New York Times, both featuring Tunisia on their front pages. The two issues are dated 23 years apart.
The first is a yellowish, wrinkled copy from November 7, 1987. The article beneath the headline, ‘A Coup is Reported in Tunisia’, reported the fall of Habib Bourguiba, the aging founder of modern Tunisia and a hero